Bomb Syria?

Splitting hairs I think 749er.

 

Dream on if you think that the views of those who voted for Corbyn as leader of the Labour party will be reflected nationally.

I have no doubt that the unelected and unrepresentative members of Momentum, effectively Militant by another name, will be doing all they can to deselect a long list of Labour MPs before the next election. The question is whether Corbyn will last that long, self interest amongst those at risk, and common sense amongst the rest, will hopefully see the back of him.

 

Corbyn's a cult leader not a party leader. He's adored by a section of lefties, students and anarchists. He's a modern Michael Foot. He won't last. And as for becoming PM... Ha ha ha etc.

 

sadly true and more a reflection on todays society that he's seen as some type of comedy character instead of a man who sticks by his own prinicples, a rare thing in modern politics im sure youll agree

 

I'm sure he's a decent man and fair play to him. I don't dislike him at all. I like his cosy ideas but they'll never work cos the mistake socialists always make is that they never factor in human nature. We're a bunch of cnuts ya know. They seem to overlook this.

 

haha hard to argue with that :thumbsup:

 

17 days ago Hillary was against bombing Syria. whats changed?

 

thats alowed and should be encouraged more.
something changed in just over two weeks?

 

The quote was "looking at these benches". They weren't there. Never have been so it's factual.

Now if Tony Blair were there, that could be argued differently.

 

Maybe he didn't change his mind, maybe he grew a pair, maybe he sees it as the opening shot in his bid for the leadership ?

 

Dream on how exactly? What's the electorate got to do with it when they don't even get selected?

There is no mechanism to deselect Corbyn. None. He has a huge mandate from the party membership. Over 50% of the party vote. The unions back him and are furious with the pro bombers. The PLP is only a small part of it. The power behind the Labour Party is with the members and unions. Not the PLP.

Corbyn may be playing a clever long game. The objective being to let the constituency parties remove the Blairites. The constituency parties will be heavily populated by those new members that elected him.

 

Think hes played the long game a bit much . Hell be 71 buy the time may 2020 comes along that would make him 76 by the end of term , if he were to win , think labour should be looking for a younger model .

 

99.9% of us wouldn't know a terrorist,bomber or Isis extremist from 10 foot away so how are we going to pick them out from 5/10/20 or 30,000 feet? To this day Arthur "bomber" Harris is still criticised and derided for the area bombing campaign during WW2 of Hamburg,Dresden and numerous other German Cities! (Despite this not being his idea but Churchills - who subsequently turned his back on Harris post war).My father flew over 50 bombing missions and plenty of other food/mercy flights - he had about a 1 in 3 chance of not surviving - as many of his mates didn't!Bomber crew received no acknowledgement or medals - until very recently and a long overdue statue of Arthur Harris recently had red paint thrown all over it - disgusting insult to the mans memory

 

I disagree. Mr Corbyn is a backstabber and a hypocrite. He has spent the past 30 years being comprehensively disloyal to everyone and everything. Now he expects others to be loyal to him, when he was disloyal to them. He has indulged himself in saying whatever idiotic notion popped into his head, with no thought for the consequences. I don't just dislike him - I think he is absolutely loathsome. The Labour Party's best chance of winning the next election, or even of avoiding total meltdown, is to find some way of getting rid of Corbyn sharpish.

 

You are probably correct regarding the party membership but the voters at large will not support him.

I am sure that Momentum / New Militant will be plotting the deselection of the Blairites at this very moment. It will be an interesting fight.

The Labour party is in a fight for it's soul.

I firmly believe that the time has come for Primaries to decide the selection of candidates rather than the self selecting bully boys of Momentum.

 

It would seem that the RAF have been targeting ISIL's oilfields. Well done

 

Afghanistan is not winding down. It's winding up again and security will deteriorate further if the international community does not come to it's senses. Regime change followed by nation rebuilding is a 30 - 50 year commitment (Japan, Korea) and not less. When there is no political will or funding for long term commitment (see Iraq and Afghanistan failures) only distaster can follow.