Anyone else find Corbyn hilarious?

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Reply 40

wm23

i feel like his unorthodox approach to the media (and life in general) prevents him from getting the credit he deserves

Reply 41

viffer

Original post by The Sexathlete

If you don't think Blair was a capitalist you're a fool.

Blair may very well have been a Capitalist but he was the leader with Broon as Chancellor. A Chancellor with loose purse strings.

Reply 42

AlexanderHam

Original post by viffer

Blair may very well have been a Capitalist but he was the leader with Broon as Chancellor. A Chancellor with loose purse strings.

Nope. From 1997 to 2007 the debt-to-GDP ratio went down (in other words, Labour was paying off Tory debt)

Reply 43

04MR17

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Original post by AlexanderHam

Nope. From 1997 to 2007 the debt-to-GDP ratio went down (in other words, Labour was paying off Tory debt)

That doesn't mean that Broon didn't have 'loose purse strings'.

Reply 44

the bear

there must be something about him to pull a baebe like Ms Abbott :hubba:

Reply 45

AlexanderHam

Original post by the bear

there must be something about him to pull a baebe like Ms Abbott :hubba:

Have you seen the account of when he and Abbott were in a sexual relationship at the beginning of the 80s, and she'd stayed the night at his house (a bedsit in Central London), and it was early in the morning and he went out and invited a whole lot of Labour activists in for tea, even though he knew she was still in bed and naked.

They all came up to his place and walked into the room, and saw her naked and in bed. She was embarrassed and very unhappy. It seems to me that he was almost bragging, "Look at how progressive I am, I'm sleeping with a black woman". And in typical Corbyn fashion, he did it in an incredibly unpleasant way

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Reply 46

viffer

Original post by AlexanderHam

Nope. From 1997 to 2007 the debt-to-GDP ratio went down (in other words, Labour was paying off Tory debt)

Reaping the benefits of the previous Administration's plans coming to fruition?

Reply 47

AlexanderHam

Original post by viffer

Reaping the benefits of the previous Administration's plans coming to fruition?

Not really. Labour managed to pay off Tory debt and bring down the debt-to-GDP ratio while implementing a huge investment programme for schools and hospitals, many of which hadn't even seen a lick of paint for decades.

The Labour government managed the economy well, bringing in a time of unparalleled prosperity. Ask anyone who was around during those years; they will tell you it was a great time to live in this country.

Then the financial crisis hit as a result of the unfortunate greed of American banks and the subprime crisis, but even so Labour kept the economy afloat. When Labour left office in 2010, the country had been through a rough period but the economy was growing at a healthy clip.

Then the Tories came in with all this unnecessary (and given their complete failure to cut the debt quickly, dishonest) rhetoric about austerity, and the economy tanked, either contracting or suffering close to zero growth in many quarters.