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Would Jeremy Corbyn as Leader make Labour unelectable?

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People interested to actually find out what Corbyn himself says, as opposed to disgusting right wing Labour smearing gangsters say, can check out his campaign website.
http://www.jeremyforlabour.com/
Original post by Bobby Crazykite
1. Facts please?
2. And what 'good' things can you tell about the rest of those who run for leader of Labour? Because if those are angels and Corbyn the only badboy, I fear not much impartiality in your words is present.


He doesn't have any facts, any more than the rest of the ghastly Labour Right have when they smear him.
Original post by Fullofsurprises
He doesn't have any facts, any more than the rest of the ghastly Labour Right have when they smear him.


Seen that a person has repeated been posting the same things (about Corbyns alleged 'sins') makes me think of propaganda honestly... What I see, as a foreigner is that there is a huge bloc united against Corbyn and however I doubt that they want to 'save Britain from that villain', more likely they want to continue the way they had been working for two decades... And that's far from anything good and nice.
Original post by Bobby Crazykite
Seen that a person has repeated been posting the same things (about Corbyns alleged 'sins':wink: makes me think of propaganda honestly... What I see, as a foreigner is that there is a huge bloc united against Corbyn and however I doubt that they want to 'save Britain from that villain', more likely they want to continue the way they had been working for two decades... And that's far from anything good and nice.


They are mainly quotes from Andrew Gilligan's prolonged rant against Corbyn in the Telegraph the other day.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11749043/Andrew-Gilligan-Jeremy-Corbyn-friend-to-Hamas-Iran-and-extremists.html

Amusingly, the article finishes with Gilligan declaring that Corbyn is not an anti-semite, after strongly alleging he is throughout the piece!
Original post by Fullofsurprises
For someone who claims not to be strongly motivated by Zionism, you certainly come across with all the usual Israeli government lines.


What usual government lines? That Hamas' charter is fundamentally anti-semitic and genocidal? That's a fact. Read Article 7 of the charter.

It's clear that all you have in your arsenal is personal attacks and logical fallacies. Any facts I raise are simply responded to with comments along the lines of "You're just pro-Israeli".

I note again that you avoided dealing with PRC's association with the Palestine Telegraph, and Corbyn accepting lavish hospitality and accomodation from oil billionaires.
Original post by Bobby Crazykite
1. Facts please?


Corbyn's accepting £2,800 cash gift from Interpal.

Corbyn's accepting £2,450 in hospitality and accomodation from PRC.

Corbyn's accepting thousands of pounds of gifts in kind from oil billionaire Ardeshir Nargshineh
Original post by Fullofsurprises
People interested to actually find out what Corbyn himself says, as opposed to disgusting right wing Labour smearing gangsters say, can check out his campaign website.
http://www.jeremyforlabour.com/


I can't see where he addresses his accepting thousands of pounds of cash gifts from anti-semites?
Original post by Bobby Crazykite
Seen that a person has repeated been posting the same things (about Corbyns alleged 'sins':wink: makes me think of propaganda honestly)


It's not propaganda if it's true.

I've posted the facts for you.

Out of interest, do you think it's wrong and offensive to call for the death of all Jews? Do you think it's offensive to deny the Holocaust?
Original post by ExcitedPup
What usual government lines? That Hamas' charter is fundamentally anti-semitic and genocidal? That's a fact. Read Article 7 of the charter.

It's clear that all you have in your arsenal is personal attacks and logical fallacies. Any facts I raise are simply responded to with comments along the lines of "You're just pro-Israeli".

I note again that you avoided dealing with PRC's association with the Palestine Telegraph, and Corbyn accepting lavish hospitality and accomodation from oil billionaires.


I note that you don't give any evidence for the oil billionaire allegation, Gilligan didn't include it in the article you have mainly been using, which rumour website are you getting that oil story from? Are you talking about Corbyn's trip to visit Hamas?

The Palestinians have within their ranks a range of people, some of them, yes, very angry and extreme people committed to violence, others less so. It's a smear because it's using their cause, which is a good one, notwithstanding the exceptions, to attack people here in the comfortable countries who want to be supportive of a badly oppressed people.

If you aren't particularly pro-Israeli (something I am finding hard to believe, given your approach) then it's even more disgusting that as a Labour supporter you are using the sort of lines that come straight from Tel Aviv's PR machine and the MI6 agents operating on their behalf in the Telegraph via tame right wing tools like Gilligan simply to try to prevent an honest socialist from taking control of what is meant to be a left wing party.

It really makes one despair about the capacity of the Labour Party to ever truly represent honest causes.
Original post by VladThe1mpaler
SNP do have some "business friendly" economic policies which are too right-wing for my taste but they also have a lot of left-wing policies with regards to austerity, trident etc..

How is cancelling Trident a left-wing policy? I'm genuinely interested to know.

Clement Attlee created the UK nuclear deterrent and took us into NATO.

As for the "red tory" comment, by that it is just meant that labour have continued to move further right and further away from their roots in order to gain more votes. It doesn't mean they are literally the same as the tory party (which you seem to think it does), the conservatives are far worse.


Except that there are plenty of shrieking hysterics on the far left whose only "contribution" to the debate is to constantly shout "Red Tory, Red Tory. Anyone who disagrees with me is a Tory".

Don't you think it's pretty offensive to call someone who is solidly Labour, who supports the Labour movement and trade unions (Kendall has some great policies like mandating worker representation on corporate boards) is a Tory? Doesn't it just come across as extreme, as a kind of unpleasant angry obsession with "purity"?
Original post by ExcitedPup
Corbyn's accepting £2,800 cash gift from Interpal.

Corbyn's accepting £2,450 in hospitality and accomodation from PRC.

Corbyn's accepting thousands of pounds of gifts in kind from oil billionaire Ardeshir Nargshineh


Ah, OK, so we are discussing the Gilligan article.

Gilligan has Ardeshir Nargshineh down as a property developer. That's not a billionaire oil trader, is it.

The gift you are talking about was the expenses for the visit to Hamas. Hardly lavish. The Gaza Hilton isn't Claridges. :teehee:

Really desperate stuff. Have you got anything better or are you just going to keep rehashing Gilligan with your own made-up twists to try and make it sound better?
Original post by ExcitedPup


Don't you think it's pretty offensive to call someone who is solidly Labour, who supports the Labour movement and trade unions (Kendall has some great policies like mandating worker representation on corporate boards) is a Tory? Doesn't it just come across as extreme, as a kind of unpleasant angry obsession with "purity"?


I had no idea Kendall had such dedicated fans. Are you paid to do this, or is it voluntary? It's hard to picture a self-serving Blairite like Kendall inspiring much loyalty from her inspiring set of principles. If elected, she definitely promises to fly to see Rupert Murdoch about what she can do for him immediately, right? :lol:
I wonder if it's generally known that Liz Kendall's supporters are quoting right wing Tory journalist Andrew Gilligan's articles as the mainstay of their attacks on Corbyn?
Original post by Fullofsurprises
I note that you don't give any evidence for the oil billionaire allegation


I specified the story; Corbyn accepted hospitality from Iranian oil billionaire Ardeshir Nargshineh

Are you talking about Corbyn's trip to visit Hamas?


No, the oil billionaire thingy is his accepting a gift of a trip + accomodation to go to Iran (Jack Straw and Lord Lamont accepted the same hospitality from this oil guy)

The Palestinians have within their ranks a range of people, some of them, yes, very angry and extreme people committed to violence, others less so.


What does that have to do with accepting money from them? There are many legitimate debates about what degree of interaction there should be between Israel and Hamas, and these are longstanding debates.

But I don't see what that has to do with taking thousands of pounds from people who say they want to kill all Jews worldwide. People who are not anti-semitic would usually be scrupulous about not associating with the KKK, neo-nazis and groups like Hamas

If you aren't particularly pro-Israeli (something I am finding hard to believe, given your approach) then it's even more disgusting that as a Labour supporter you are using the sort of lines that come straight from Tel Aviv's PR machine and the MI6 agents operating on their behalf in the Telegraph


I never said I'm not pro-Israeli. In fact I said I'm a Zionist socialist. What does that have to do with the facts? If you are incapable of debating on the facts and simply accuse anyone who disagrees with you of being a Jewish spy, then you should probably cease coming on TSR as its clear you are incapable of adult conversation.

It really makes one despair about the capacity of the Labour Party to ever truly represent honest causes.


I don't see what's honest about accepting thousands in cash gifts and hospitality from some of the most unpleasant and bigoted people you could imagine
Original post by Fullofsurprises
I wonder if it's generally known that Liz Kendall's supporters are quoting right wing Tory journalist Andrew Gilligan's articles as the mainstay of their attacks on Corbyn?


Who is Andrew Gilligan? Are his facts wrong?

If you only read people you agree with, you must have a remarkably narrow mind and a pathetically small sphere of reading.
Original post by Fullofsurprises
Ah, OK, so we are discussing the Gilligan article.


Which of Gilligan's facts are wrong?

The gift you are talking about was the expenses for the visit to Hamas.


Nice. An all expenses paid trip to visit the group who calls for the death of all Jews worldwide. You seem remarkably relaxed about associating with, and taking money from, people who are involved in war crimes and calls for genocide

Really desperate stuff. Have you got anything better or are you just going to keep rehashing Gilligan with your own made-up twists to try and make it sound better?


The only person who is desperate here is you. I presented some facts. You appear to be flipping out and shrieking that anyone who has different politics to your own shouldn't be listened to or read. It sounds like community groupthink
Original post by Fullofsurprises
I wonder if it's generally known that Liz Kendall's supporters are quoting right wing Tory journalist Andrew Gilligan's articles as the mainstay of their attacks on Corbyn?


Out of interest, do you believe the Blood Libel is wrong and offensive?
Original post by ExcitedPup
I specified the story; Corbyn accepted hospitality from Iranian oil billionaire Ardeshir Nargshineh



No, the oil billionaire thingy is his accepting a gift of a trip + accomodation to go to Iran (Jack Straw and Lord Lamont accepted the same hospitality from this oil guy)



What does that have to do with accepting money from them? There are many legitimate debates about what degree of interaction there should be between Israel and Hamas, and these are longstanding debates.

But I don't see what that has to do with taking thousands of pounds from people who say they want to kill all Jews worldwide. People who are not anti-semitic would usually be scrupulous about not associating with the KKK, neo-nazis and groups like Hamas



I never said I'm not pro-Israeli. In fact I said I'm a Zionist socialist. What does that have to do with the facts? If you are incapable of debating on the facts and simply accuse anyone who disagrees with you of being a Jewish spy, then you should probably cease coming on TSR as its clear you are incapable of adult conversation.



I don't see what's honest about accepting thousands in cash gifts and hospitality from some of the most unpleasant and bigoted people you could imagine


It's good that you've admitted that your motivation is a Zionist one. That helps us get some perspective on your many comments,

I was right when I said that a rational dialogue would be impossible. For example, the line that Hamas wants to kill all Jews. This is the usual Tel Aviv distortion. They pick on the original Hamas charter, which unsurprisingly contained some extreme elements, given that the Israelis were constantly attacking their leaders and the people of Gaza and the West Bank. The modern-day Hamas undoubtedly does contain extremist elements but it's leaders have been up for dialogue at times. Israel has responded by killing the moderates. Against that background, it's hardly surprising that they lurch back to a war footing. Israel by the way also includes many extremists, not least in Netanyahu's own government, which strongly represents settler interests, Greater Israel and the driving out of all Arabs. They may not act on all of those things all the time, but it's clear that the current government of Israel is racist, nationalistic and extreme.

Corbyn did go to Iran, along with many other politicians. It may not suit the Tel Aviv propaganda mill to see the west talking to Tehran, but it's a very good idea for the rest of us. Trying to smear Corbyn for visiting Iran with the bill paid by a property developer is a bit of a stretch.
Original post by ExcitedPup
It's not propaganda if it's true.

I've posted the facts for you.

Out of interest, do you think it's wrong and offensive to call for the death of all Jews? Do you think it's offensive to deny the Holocaust?


First of all, what you have posted are not facts but allegations. Say, I would decree you are a thief. Facts would be evidence- video footage, stolen things in your pockets or in your place and so on, whereas allegations would be that you stolen this and that. I cannot see facts here, only allegations.

Out of interest, I do not support those who are anti-Semitic, I believe that the state of Israel has a full right to exist, and I am sure the Holocaust took place, BUT that does not make the Palestinian case a priori anti-semitic either. Ignoring what is happening in Palestine right here and right now is no less obnoxious than denying past genocides. And, still, be it whatever it may, I do not feel I or anyone else is obliged to support a candidate on all topics. We live in democracy, and Corbyn would be the leader of Labour, not a King of whatever, whose opinions the multitude would have to share unanimously. However, I still am yet to see any genuine facts as to Corbyn being a 'villain' and Blair and company being fairies, who just wanted to bomb Iraq.
Original post by Fullofsurprises
It's good that you've admitted that your motivation is a Zionist one.


I am a zionist. My motivation here isn't zionist, it's to point out that Corbyn associates with and accepts money from anti-semites and terrorists.

I'm a socialist, but I have as lot of conservative friends too. I like to have a broad group of friends, from all sides of politics and from other religions and belief systems (my stepdad is Christian Lebanese, I've travelled quite broadly in the Middle East. My boyfriend is secular Muslim).

I would hate to live in the narrow-minded little echo chamber you've constructed for yourself. It would be intellectual death

I was right when I said that a rational dialogue would be impossible.


Says the woman who called me a Mossad spy. You realise you are probably descending into some form of psychosis if you genuinely believe that? That kind of paranoia is really not healthy.

They pick on the original Hamas charter, which unsurprisingly contained some extreme elements, given that the Israelis were constantly attacking their leaders and the people of Gaza and the West Bank.


But it doesn't talk about Israelis, it specifically talks about Jews. Do you think Israelis and Jews are the same? And what does all of your subsequent talk about the situation in I/P have to do with deep anti-semitism and Holocaust denial? Don't answer that, by the way. It's clear you have no interest in serious discussion

It may not suit the Tel Aviv propaganda mill


Ah yes. Anyone who brings up any facts you don't like must be a Jewish spy. It's clear you're incapable of rational thought, let alone adult discussion.

Corbyn for visiting Iran with the bill paid by a property developer is a bit of a stretch.


Why is Corbyn taking money from businessmen? What are their motives? What do they want in return for their legalised bribe? If this was a Conservative accepting a trip to Israel from a Jewish property developer you would hit the roof.

There's no doubt you are an anti-semite given your conflating of Israel and Jews, and there's no doubt you have mental illness problems given your belief that I am a Mossad spy. In both cases, it's not really possible to have a serious discussion with you, given your paranoia and your position that you only read articles and books by left-wing writers. Your reading and general knowledge, as a result, will be so limited that it would not be profitable to have further discourse with you
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