Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[brogdale]

Why is that a gaffe?

Not a 'gaff' as widely understood, just embarrassingly lame.

 

[Supine]

My strategy for a Labour win.

Nationalise, by issuing 1000 year bonds at 0.5%

Railways
Buses
Water
Gas & Electricity
Telephone & net (including mobiles)

Introduce road tolls for motorways at 1p a mile, and use the money to subsidise public transport.
Introduce a 1p a litre tax on petrol (3p on diesel) the money hypothecated for road repairs.
Introduce a national housing corporation, which takes over all public sector housing, and has a legal obligation to build 200,000 new homes each year.

Don't give up your day job

 

[belboid]

It's absolutely bog standard psephology, and has been for at least forty years, that bad weather affects labour supporters more than tories. Why anyone would doubt/deny that is mysterious...unless they have an agenda

 

[Raheem]

no

Obviously, I'm discounting the sorts of no-car cranks who put all their recycling in the right bin.

 

[J Ed]

Obviously, I'm discounting the sorts of no-car cranks who put all their recycling in the right bin.

How do you run a car if you privately rent and are on minimum wage?

Yeah, it's possible in some circumstances, but prohibitively expensive in others.

 

[brogdale]

It's absolutely bog standard psephology, and has been for at least forty years, that bad weather affects labour supporters more than tories. Why anyone would doubt/deny that is mysterious...unless they have an agenda

Yep...always referred to election day rain as 'tory weather', but that did date from a time when there were massive class-based car-owing differentials.

 

[brogdale]

Obviously, I'm discounting the sorts of no-car cranks who put all their recycling in the right bin.

This is a wind-up, no?

 

[Raheem]

How do you run a car if you privately rent and are on minimum wage?

Yeah, it's possible in some circumstances, but prohibitively expensive in others.

Dividends, obvs.

 

[brogdale]

Interesting to see how many tory party (party of the workers) goons are celebrating the death of UKIP on SM. That would be the party that put them into 3rd place in that town of the workers?

 

[Raheem]

This is a wind-up, no?

Some up them might go for wind-ups. Or electric ones.

 

[belboid]

Yep...always referred to election day rain as 'tory weather', but that did date from a time when there were massive class-based car-owing differentials.

Just over 60% of the adult population have a driving license, and around 20% of households don't have a car, so its still significant.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Don't give up your day job

You are right.

 

[brogdale]

Some up them might go for wind-ups. Or electric ones.

I see.

 

[mikey mikey]

 

[ViolentPanda]

introduce a pledge to neckshoot all former tory cabinet ministers and hang former tory mps from gallows erected on horseguards - and then you'd see an upswing in support for the labour party

You're so fucking merciful, that you make me vomit!!!

The Essex and Cheshire salt mines, for the lot of them! Then, when they're no longer capable of labouring for the good of the People, stick 'em in gibbets on Horseguards, with plaques attached to their cages stating their crimes. There will be baskets of rotten food by each gibbet, and the public can choose - or not - to hurl such refuse at the MPs, always bearing in mind that a rotten swede is a meal for the MP.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Because everyone has a car, don't they? I mean, sure, some people can only afford to buy them second hand, but they still mostly get you from A to B.

I don't have a car. only about one in five of my council estate neighbours have a car. We rely - like many of the urban poor - on public transport.

 

[Raheem]

I don't have a car. only about one in five of my council estate neighbours have a car. We rely - like many of the urban poor - on public transport.

But you're not really interested in politics, are you, so why should it matter?

 

[Raheem]

Because everyone has a car, don't they? I mean, sure, some people can only afford to buy them second hand, but they still mostly get you from A to B.

For the avoidance of further confusion, no, not everyone has a car, so that can't be the reason that suggesting that not everyone has a car is a gaffe.

 

[ViolentPanda]

But you're not really interested in politics, are you, so why should it matter?

Give it up. Your humour is humourless, and your attempts to troll are shamefully weak.

 

[Andrew Hertford]

if a party's worth is to be measured by the probability of it forming a government then the lib dems, ukip, greens, uup, dup, sf, sdlp, plaid cymru, snp etc etc etc ought to cease fighting elections to parliament.

Labour's different, they're still potentially the only party who could get enough votes to beat the tories. Unless of course you're happy for the tories to carry on in government for the next 5, 10, 20, 40 years??

 

[Raheem]

Give it up. Your humour is humourless, and your attempts to troll are shamefully weak.

I wasn't attempting to troll. It just seemed to happen of it's own accord. It was more you attempting to be trolled, I'd say.

 

[DownwardDog]

My strategy for a Labour win.

Nationalise, by issuing 1000 year bonds at 0.5%

Railways
Buses
Water
Gas & Electricity
Telephone & net (including mobiles)

Introduce road tolls for motorways at 1p a mile, and use the money to subsidise public transport.
Introduce a 1p a litre tax on petrol (3p on diesel) the money hypothecated for road repairs.
Introduce a national housing corporation, which takes over all public sector housing, and has a legal obligation to build 200,000 new homes each year.

Who is going to be buying these hundreds of billions pounds worth of 1,000 year gilts?

 

[Pickman's model]

Labour's different, they're still potentially the only party who could get enough votes to beat the tories. Unless of course you're happy for the tories to carry on in government for the next 5, 10, 20, 40 years??

it doesn't matter whether i am happy or not, it's not like my vote makes any difference living as i do in a very safe labour seat.

 

[Pickman's model]

It was more you attempting to be trolled, I'd say.

bully blaming their target i see.

 

[Raheem]

bully blaming their target i see.

No, i don't think posting self-evident nonsense addressed to no-one in particular can count as bullying. To do that, I would need to do something like trying to embarrass someone by way of an accusation.

 

[Pickman's model]

No, i don't think <snip>

no, you wouldn't

 

[Raheem]

no, you wouldn't

Did you spend the whole ten minutes on that? It's pretty good.

 

[Pickman's model]

Did you spend the whole ten minutes on that?

no, i spent 9' 55" doing a spot of work before spotting your piss puddle of a post, and 5" on the reply.

 

[Pickman's model]

still thinking up a snotty putdown i suppose Raheem

 

[Raheem]

still thinking up a snotty putdown i suppose Raheem

No, it's over now. But thanks for the shoutout.