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I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
I don't think tax rises will damage her as Labour have already announced they will raise tax as have the Lib Dems so its neutral and I think the Tories scent a major three digit victory and power for another couple of elections (subject to Brexit and the economy).
Apparently Labour are rehashing Miliband's manifesto. A dumb move as the Tories have pinched the best bits already.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Now is the time you can introduce unpopular policies. A small Conservative tax rise can be brushed off with the phrase "Corbyn would tax you more". Tax rises to fund the NHS might not sit easy with some backbenchers but it would be the most palatable way to get the public to accept them.
There's also the angle that a lot of voters won't regard the Conservatives as being tax cutters but being people who will raise them grudgingly, whereas their main opposition are more gung ho with rises.
Not you guys. Just seeing what British politics is - scheming and plotting, no straightforward answers, no real focus.
Blarg. No wonder no one knows how they want to vote.
Cast your mind back to the key campaigners for Brexit remain and leave ?
where the fuck are they now ?????????????????
Soundbites promises lies over promise under deliver
It's known that many normal labour voters voted for Brexit
would it not have been best to shut up about brexit and concentrate on core labour values?
Clearly in Scotland, the SNP hijacked labour's vote - I imagine that could have waned very slightly, but it's likely that the tories will be the only ones who can gain seats there
Then Mrs Milli went round a few doors and visited our closer friend, who had previously confirmed as a labour voter to canvassers, and had a tea and short chat.
It's a very marginal seat, and I'm wondering if Jezza knocks on my door, what would I say?
So far my intention is to say "I was determined to not vote labour whilst you're the leader, but I will anyway, but do you understand you have destroyed the labour party?"
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However, I only have a small amount of experience with the Dept of Health - who seemed much the same
What is the NHS like? is there vast waste and inefficiency like all the other public sector environments?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39710559
an evangelical Christian who "doesn't believe gay sex is a sin"?
what a big fat liar with pants on fiyah
read what I said, I said more chances than the SNP.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
His religion is his own personal thing. He isn't campaigning for his belief system to be adopted by the whole country. His belief is only a problem if he takes part in actions that discriminate against homosexuals. Abstaining on the gay marriage vote meant he didn't participate rather than discriminate against them.
Religion is idiotic to me but I recognise that there are many who have their faith. The people within my own family who have a faith-based system of worship going on... I'll defend them up to the point where they discriminate against someone else for having a differing ideology. It's no different to believing in free speech and allowing groups you are opposed to in every way to have their right to speak.
I found his responses actually quite thoughtful. He's quite right to say that he gets the theological questions that others do not get. It's the sort of clash of ideologies you find when religion and homosexuality mix, how something as old as religion bashes up against modern liberalism. Go and ask someone like Andrew Sullivan about how he reconciles his homosexuality with his Catholic beliefs and his belief that hate laws undermine the freedom of speech. I would thoroughly recommend starting with his book Virtually Normal as an introduction.
Tony Blair did.
The only reason Corbyn is leader now is as a reaction to the New Labour careerists who were the other leadership candidates, and who didn't seem to have a single principle between them. Corbyn's attraction was that he has principles - rather too many intransigent ones for a lot of people's liking, admittedly.
Blair made Labour electable, but he also eroded its very reason for existence by essentially stealing the Tories' clothes and repackaging them in soundbites and spin. It was only a matter of time before the real Tories wanted them back.
The tragedy for Labour is that Corbyn's principles are largely in the right place and represent a lot of what the Labour Party should stand for, and would almost certainly be far more popular than he's given credit for if he was both capable of leading his partly coherently so they're all on a similar message, and presenting them more forcefully. As it is the disarray and incoherence is an open goal for the Tories, to the point that they can make it the story rather than the policies. He doesn't even seem willing to take the fight to the press when they constantly and intentionally misrepresent him, and allow the Tories free rein to do the same.
Sad.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
NB. I had to add the LOl as you had a Wow and a Wis. Perfect hat trick had to be done.
you can't stand as leader of a political party and have personal beliefs that clash with the society you aspire to lead
As far as I understand it, evangelicalism is a fundamentalist variation of Christianity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism#Characteristics
As such the bible condemns homosexuality - hence the repeated questions he has faced in a secular society
Either he shares the belief that homosexuality is a sin, or not.
Personally, I think he is lying when he denies the biblical teaching - his body language says it all
my one is that new Labour were unfortunate enough to be in charge when the global bubble burst
the Tories shamelessly exploited this, and with the aid of the press, convinced many that (new) Labour were incompetent with the economy
soundbites and spin are probably unavoidable in any aspirant party, the SNP played that tactic well, I can't see how that destroyed the labour party. Look how well parties have done when they bail out of doing PR properly
I accept that Corbyn comes across more as a normal, unpolished bloke, but I seriously doubt he has any more principles or integrity than most labour MPs. Traingate should illustrate this adequately
Corbyn makes lists of things that are unfair (anyone can do that), and proposes curative policies that appear destructive or risky. This will never appeal to the majority. I can list what's unfair, this does not qualify me to lead the country.