Corbyn's Britain

[Spicerack]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5011849/Haunting-images-prisoners-Stalin-s-Gulag-prisons.html

[Khandro]

sp; /Your statement doesn't make sense: /

On the contrary, you have indicated the reality yourself; you can have an element of socialism, but you can't have an element of totalitarianism.

[Gromit]

Comparing Corbyn to Stalin is pretty dim even for an alt right nutjob.

[Kromovaracun]

Corbyn's outdatedness and his manipulable nature are indeed prominent and very important criticisms of him. He's also less flexible than Clem was (and perhaps less intelligent), even if he shares much of the same principles. As you say, though, ich, the idea that electing Corbyn will result in slave labour, mass murder and a planned economy is fanciful.

[douglas9401]

The head of English at my old school used to prowl the corridors, dropping in on random classes to impart wisdom.
One of his favourites went something like 'it doesn't matter what you read as long as you're reading'.
He never had to read some of the guff above right enough.

[Haggisdj]

Who was in power when Britian built the first concentration camps during the Boer War?

[youngmafbog]

I would not expect this to be Jezza's Britain but I bet it is the ideal view of Britain that many in Momentum hold.

[emmie]

don't like the sound of the headline.

[sp1814]

You could argue that under the current administration, with zero hour contracts, the bedroom tax, the treatment of the disabled on benefits, and the unending austerity measures which disproportionally affect those on lower incomes, and the 'work til you drop' pension age, homelessness and the proliferation of food bank - we are already marching towards our own version of the gulag.

[bainbrig]

Sp. We’ve arrived, mate.

[mikey4444]

What Spicey has tried to do here, in his usual ham-fisted way, is to equate Corbyn and Stalin, which most of you have seen through for the daft idea that it is.

Nobody is going to come out and defend Stalin, least of all me, and all this post shows is Spicey's increasingly desperate means of trying to discredit the Labour Party, which hasn't worked.

[cassa333]

I would like to think that even Momentum wouldn't go that far.

[mikey4444]

Cassa....of course it wouldn't, so why does Spicey post such rubbish ?

[bainbrig]

Not quite Mikey. SP wrote: "You could argue that under the current administration, with zero hour contracts, the bedroom tax, the treatment of the disabled on benefits, and the unending austerity measures...etc"

And talking about the CURRENT administration (and for that matter the Blair/Brown debacle) you can't really argue against SP.

Not saying he's not a pillock in other ways, just not in that answer!

BB