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The Enigma Of Socialism
What is its appeal? Are its supporters ignorant of world history, or of even current politics? In the USSR, China, North Korea, Eastern Europe, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Venezuela it has led variously to the suppression of free speech, the imprisonment of dissidents, state-sanctioned mass murder and widespread starvation - as witnessed recently by the President of Venezuela telling the people not to be squeamish about eating their rabbits.
So what began as a dream of equality ends up with you having to eat your pets!
With all previous attempts at Socialism having patently failed, why did nearly 13 million of the population vote for Jeremy Corbyn last June, are they unaware of the suffering and misery which Socialism has unleashed on the world?
So what began as a dream of equality ends up with you having to eat your pets!
With all previous attempts at Socialism having patently failed, why did nearly 13 million of the population vote for Jeremy Corbyn last June, are they unaware of the suffering and misery which Socialism has unleashed on the world?
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It's a mistake to think of New Labour as faux-Tories.
What New Labour did (successfully) was redraw the political map, claiming the centre - not the 'right'.
This is what Cameron subsequently learned...the country was tired of left vs. right. We started moving towards the liberalism of the centre. This is why there were so many social changes prompted by liberalism (with a small 'L') in the mid 90s.
Of course, that all changed again in the 00s, and we're back with Left vs. Right.
By the 20s it may very well change again...
That might be a moot point with Trump vs. Kim Jong-un preparing us for WWWIII via Twitter.
It's a mistake to think of New Labour as faux-Tories.
What New Labour did (successfully) was redraw the political map, claiming the centre - not the 'right'.
This is what Cameron subsequently learned...the country was tired of left vs. right. We started moving towards the liberalism of the centre. This is why there were so many social changes prompted by liberalism (with a small 'L') in the mid 90s.
Of course, that all changed again in the 00s, and we're back with Left vs. Right.
By the 20s it may very well change again...
That might be a moot point with Trump vs. Kim Jong-un preparing us for WWWIII via Twitter.
TTT...I am accepting nothing of the sort,
Yes, the Blair years were Labour seizing the centre ground, but that didn't make them Tories....see SP's post above.
But this isn't 1997, its 20 years later, and the Tories support is slipping, and its slipping for all the reasons that Gromit gave earlier at 17:27.
Yes, the Blair years were Labour seizing the centre ground, but that didn't make them Tories....see SP's post above.
But this isn't 1997, its 20 years later, and the Tories support is slipping, and its slipping for all the reasons that Gromit gave earlier at 17:27.
Kromo; So we're still here, good morning! Yes you did give a good summing up of the status quo and I acknowledged that at 11:18
So what you are saying (as am I) is that the younger voters based their decision to vote for Corbyn on a combination of a lack of knowledge the glaring examples of history, and a trust in his lies and impossible promises.
To put it in a nutshell; they were duped by a dope.
So what you are saying (as am I) is that the younger voters based their decision to vote for Corbyn on a combination of a lack of knowledge the glaring examples of history, and a trust in his lies and impossible promises.
To put it in a nutshell; they were duped by a dope.
No, I was saying (pretty clearly) that they aren't convinced they are voting for Venezuelan or Albanian style socialism, and they were voting for Corbyn because he's the *only one* of the major parties offering to help.
But sure. Stick with "they're just ignorant and gullible" if that makes you feel better.
But sure. Stick with "they're just ignorant and gullible" if that makes you feel better.
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"why did nearly 13 million of the population vote for Jeremy Corbyn last June ? "
Today, Parliament is going to debate the rollout of Universal Credit, amid continuing calls for changes to the way the government's flagship welfare programme is working, and May could lose this debate.
That is just one reason why 12,878,460 voted Labour in June and there are plenty of others.
Today, Parliament is going to debate the rollout of Universal Credit, amid continuing calls for changes to the way the government's flagship welfare programme is working, and May could lose this debate.
That is just one reason why 12,878,460 voted Labour in June and there are plenty of others.
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