Why Are Labour Frightened Of Jeremy Corbyn, Is He The Left's Nigel Farage?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3175453/Call-flawed-leadership-race-say-Labour-MPs.html

[Peter Pedant]

because he is an obvious loser on the Neil Kinnock scale

Big fan of tax-and-spend, centralisation of planning and everything else, the man at the ministry knows best for everyone, and re nationalization

all known vote - losers

You recollect Arthur Scargill during one of the elections ? every time he opens his mouth Labour loses a million votes....

[ToraToraTora]

Because, “sensible” Labour know that the country does not want hard left policies and that Corbyn and co are more damaging to the party than the Tories.

[mikey4444]

I note that Corbyn has, amongst others, two policies that might prove popular with many of us here on AB, and the nation in general......namely the renationalisation of the railways and energy companies.

I don't see any other candidate putting these policies forward !

By the way AOG, Corbyn and Farage have nothing in common whatsoever !

Not even a little bit !

Corbyn is one of 232 Labour's MPs elected a few weeks ago, and Farage only has one MP, and its not him !

Good try though, to muddy the waters !

[Togo]

Not to mention renationalisation of Royal Mail, Abolish the monarch, Axing trident, Increase corporation tax, A poll in Northern Ireland on union with the Republic. Some of these may not be popular with AB followers though.

[retrocop]

Plus an admirer of Marxist policies.

[Togo]

I am sure Muddy Waters sang Find Yourself Another Fool

[mikey4444]

Axing Trident seems like a great idea to me ! We will never use it, yet it will cost a fortune...what's not to like ?

[mikey4444]

And just what is wrong about nationalising Royal Mail ?

I seem to recall that a certain lady Leader of the Tory Party stopped short of hiving off Royal mail, despite her complete indifference when it came to selling all the rest of Britain's family silver. One of the few things I agreed with her on.

[janbee]

I totally support the renationalisation of the railways and energy companies. It'll never happen though. It's a nice dream. Also, I never trust a man with a Harold Shipman beard. Corbyn will take the Labour party waaaayyy back in time and will ensure they are unelectable for at least another decade, maybe a generation.

[retrocop]

Perhaps the fact we have had it all these years shows that it prevents the need to use it. I believe the word is "deterrent". Particularly handy at the moment with Mr Corbyn's buddy in Moscow becoming more belligerent recently.

[janbee]

I'd also like to see The Royal Mail back in public hands again

[Togo]

Just don't tell the Ruskies, Chinese, North Koreans Israelis, French, Yanks, Indians, Pakistanis, and probably more that we are never gonna use it.

[mikey4444]

Retrocop....while there might, just might, have been a reason to have nuclear weapons in the past, just who are they supposed to deter now ?

As everybody keeps pointing out, our enemies these days aren't the Ruskies, its Islamic terrorists, mostly our home grown variety. Just who are we going to drop a nuclear missile on now ? ISIL ?

[retrocop]

Do you really believe the cold war is over.It was our protection since Aldermaston days and it still is now. Sabre rattling is still ongoing. IS do not possess nuclear capability. Russia does. Always keep a shot in your locker unless of course you go down the road of appeasement.

[Baldric]

For the pittance it costs monthly to join the LP Mrs B and Myself are thinking of doing so, so that we can add to the Vote for the most unsuitable candidate when the time comes!

[mikey4444]

Togo....none of those countries are ever going to drop a nuclear bomb on Britain.

The main reason why we thought we needed nuclear weapons was that America used us as a stationary aircraft carrier, moored just off the coast of Europe, for many years. Those American bases would have been the targets for Russian missiles, not the rest of Britain.

Pakistan and India might very well drop one on each other, and Israel might let one off if somebody poked them hard enough in the backside. Ditto with the Mad Dog state of N Korea, but I still can't see how nuclear missiles protect Britain, or from whom.

When Argentina invaded the Falklands, we sent a modern Armada, together with some Vulcan bombers, instead a Trident missile. Of course, we don't have any aircraft carriers now !

Our economy could be completely transformed if we had the guts to cancel the program to replace Trident. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, all of South America, most of Asia, and almost all of Europe seem to get along very well without nuclear weapons, so why do we need them ?

[Canary42]

As Baldric has so usefully illustrated, the Tory Dirty Tricks Brigade are infiltrating the Labout Party to undermine it - typical Tory tactics.

[Baldric]

Well spotted!

[retrocop]

The Tory party didn't infiltrate Labour and employ dirty tricks at the General Election. The Labour party managed to ensure that defeat all by themselves. Looks like they want to keep it that way for the future as well. :-)

[Togo]

Mikey. I loathe the b****y things as much as anybody. I was a teenager during the Cuban crisis and the Vietnam war and remember the fear even now. I also remember Hungarian children joining us at primary school during the Hungarian uprising crisis. The sad fact is we cannot uninvent them. A bully of any creed or persuasion is still a bully. Whilst we have our own deterrent we are not likely to be bullied by a nuclear armed nutter.
A bully is always a coward remember, they target the timid or weak.