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How many rallies and speeches of his have you attended? Which politicians did you consider performed well for the media during the election campaign? Do you listen to Women's Hour every day or was this a one-off occasion because of your interest in obtaining information about Labour's policies? So, are you claiming to be an expert on Chinese socialism? Are you categorically stating that Corbyn's political outlook is one and the same as Mao's? Why can't you let it go? You're a Tory, you don't like him - that's fine, none of us have to like everybody. But why the fiction? You can dislike his policies that a staggering number of people find reasonable, you can wish for a neo-liberal leader that the party doesn't want, but why invent stuff? To accuse him of being a disciple of Mao (and thereby a student of planned economies) is drifting off into fantastical nonsense; as any cursory examination of his speeches and plans would attest. I appreciate other political perspectives, I get the fire-poking contributions Six makes, and I believe you're an intelligent and humorous chap - so I don't get why you can't simply stick to facts about why you dislike Corbyn? I'd plump for the beard, my Mum told me never to trust men with beards. (*I have a beard) He ran an outstanding campaign and made some human errors, even the bulk of the PLP have congratulated him and expressed their surprise. My reservation with him comes down to his choice for some of the shadow posts - but then, when your PLP is in open warfare with you and carrying out planned resignations (coordinated by the BBC) I kinda guess you have to take the Diane Abbotts where you find them. FWIW, I cancelled my membership of Labour during the last leadership election after he won.

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No you haven't, this thread is peppered with your bile towards the man. It's almost like one of their key policies was to tax caravan discos! The guy was never given a chance - the media coverage has been disgraceful ever since he was voted in to lead Labour. Even the Grauniad took up Blair's discredited new-liberal line for month's on end. The BBC supplied month's of coverage of this character assassination, without balance, and encouraged members of the party to stab him in the back...and the fact that they coordinated a series of resignations should have been enough to have them closed down. So, I'm not surprised people continue to trot out the trite personal comments about Corbyn, it's all they've been fed by a system with nothing to gain and everything to lose if he wins. The one-sided attacks on his policies that fail to look at the way the Tories have increased national debt to unprecedented levels. Corbyn has a money tree? Then what the flip were all of the uncosted policies in the Tory manifesto? How has Dave and Theresa managed to £800billion to £1.7trillion since 2010 while cutting benefits and wages to the poorest in society? While destroying the police, education and the NHS? It's because of the field day the rich have had in tax cuts - his money tree can be found in the tax evasion forest. And those who don't get why he can't be more like that nice Mr Blair...it's because neo-liberalism and austerity is dead as a concept. It has only ever benefitted the rich and was roundly rejected by everybody who voted Corbyn to lead and failed to vote for May. Look around the world, look at the internal investment rates via quantities easing - look at Japan, and Europe, and the USA in 2016. All of them dwarf us. The Tories have mismanaged the economy from start to not-quite-finished...and yet Corbyn is the bad guy? And yet he's the fiscally irresponsible one? Nah. I'm not buying it.

Except he doesn't seem to think so: he's parading around with a huge smile on his face saying people 'have voted for change' (err, no Jeremy, most of them voted for May) and that he's ready to form a minority government! This is confirmation, if it were needed, that Corbyn is the most deluded man in British politics. Even with a manifesto that promised as much as his, and with an electorate split down the middle over Brexit and an unpopular PM who seems to have gone out of her way to sabotage her own campaign, he still didn't even come close to winning. The sooner Labour rids itself of this ludicrous Marxist clown and goes back to being a party normal people can vote for, the better. You two are becoming the forum's political equivalent of the Westbro Baptist Church.

Hope you are having an ace day

I'm going to the bookies to put money on us going through this all over again before the end of the year.

Power cuts were awesome, everybody thought so.

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Excellent. You'll go far in my politburo. Yertsevo.

There is no mod jobs going..... Phew. I'm only up for running the country - I'm not stupid enough to take on more than I can manage.

I remain convinced that me becoming a benevolent dictator is the best solution for everybody.

Trouble is that parties then break election pledges the second they get their hands on the keys. It's easy to promise the world when you don't have to do anything.

Erm, 'the last time round' I remember hospitals reducing waiting times, increased police on the streets, resourced classrooms and ambulances that got to emergencies on time. I then remember the banks f**king up the economy. Seems a bit stiff to blame a UK party's policies when corporate and personal greed crushed a global system. 'This simplistic socialist claptrap' includes breaking the ridiculous austerity measures in order to stimulate the economy, something May's administration adopted immediately (albeit watered down) when taking office. There's a lot to knock Labour for, but the collapse of Western economies isn't it.

It's people going spend crazy before Theresa can grab it off them for their OAP social care.

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But I quite liked living in Venezuela under Chavez. It only really went to pot when he got too ill and then died.

I've voted in eight general elections, my vote was utterly pointless each and every time. My choice this time around includes a handful of people I've never heard of, never seen and clearly don't give enough of a shit. None of them has made the slightest effort to campaign on local issues or contact constituents prior to the election. And then there's my sitting MP: a gimp-faced gurning pillock. At least he knocked on my door so I could let him know what I thought about the time he sent me a late-night (and presumably drink-inspired) abusive email, and waved it in his dumb face. His expression will last with me forever - imagine the one Pob would pull if a giant cactus was thrust up his arse. Nope, I see absolutely no point in voting for one of my candidates.

Don't see any point in forcing people to vote in constituencies where their vote counts for nothing. It only works if we overhaul the entire process.

Role on Friday, and I can go back to hating everybody equally instead of singling out the stupid people who should have the right to vote removed from them. The party system is corrupt, the voting system is unfair, our politicians are (mostly) a disgrace, and I wouldn't trust the electorate to open a tin of tuna without dumping the contents on the floor and slicing their thumb. An absolute shambles. I drew a giant cock on my ballot. I'm hoping my MP sees the likeness.

Was he Kim Wilde's husband?