Is Labour Is Ready To Govern?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45646690
...The peoples flag is deepest red....etc!

[jim360]

No, but they're finding other ways to screw up instead.

[naomi24]

Ever experienced a communist country in action, Jim? I doubt it very much. As I said, be afraid .... be very afraid.

[jim360]

I'm sure that your own brand of Project Fear will be as successful as its namesake...

[naomi24]

Jim, What are you talking about? They've told us what they intend to do. I listened. I suggest you try it.

[jim360]

I just don't see the point of saying "be afraid... be very afraid". It's meaningless drivel.

And besides, right now the other lot is in power, and I'm not exactly wowed with their performance (understatement)...

[naomi24]

Jim. It’s not meaningless drivel ..,..if you’ve listened to what they’re saying ....

[kvalidir]

Yeah I listened to Ian Duncan-Smith about a month after he'd visited Auschwitz actually say during a speech 'work makes you free'.
Pretty much everything else people say after that pales to insignificance tbh when you think where he got his inspiration :(

[naomi24]

kvalidir, Wow! That's some accusation. I would have thought the press would have had a field day with that but I’ve seen nothing. Do you have a link?

[Zacs-Master]

His actual words were; "Work actually helps free people"

Very easily searchable.

Back to the OP. The Labour Party are a dangerous opposition and, if some of their MPs are to be believed, would happily go back to Marxist ways to get any semblance of power. They will never Govern with Comrade Corbyn at the helm.........if they do, will the last person in the country please switch the lights out as they leave?

[waterboatman]

They can't even govern themselves, never mind the country!

[naomi24]

//His actual words were; "Work actually helps free people" //

Thanks Zacs. Nothing like a bit of spin.

[10ClarionSt]

It's the 10th anniversary this year of the collapse of the american Sub-Prime Market, which caused world-wide financial chaos. In order to save jobs and the finances of this country, Gordon Brown used the only means at his disposal and prevented total meltdown of many institutions. That wasn't the fault of Labour. Nor would it have been the fault of the Tories, had they been in power, because they would have done the same. Labour saved this country at that time but some people have been clearly brainwashed by tabloid, idiot style, reporting based on nothing but party politics.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes, Naomi. Kval needs to be very careful as her comment could be construed as libellous.

[Zacs-Master]

‘based on nothing but party politics‘

Yeah, right!

[10ClarionSt]

And Yes. I want to see a Labour government. Get 'em in!

[naomi24]

Zacs at 7.40. ‘Construing’ unnecessary.. She said his speech was inspired by his visit to Auschwitz.

10ClarionSt, to paraphrase Mrs Merton interviewing Debbie Magee, what is it that attracts you to such unworkable and damaging ideas?

[10ClarionSt]

Whose unworkable and damaging ideas? Yours? It must be true if Naomi says so.

[CrapAtCryptics]

We do need a valid and relevant opposition but, by no stretch of the imagination in its current form, will that be Labour.

[10ClarionSt]

CAC, people were talking like that at the last election and look what happened. And the election before that was a complete reversal of the opinion polls. Good innit?!

[naomi24]

10ClarionSt, I take it you don’t know why you want to hand power to this motley crew then. You want a Labour government regardless of the cost.