Re: The Lunatic Left
Re: The Lunatic Left
Slightly OT (sorry) but did anyone hear the piece on Bernie Sanders on Radio 4 Today this morning? (Nice to hear Jim Naughtie again) Sanders is doing really well in the polls and there is even a possibility that he will overtake Hillary Clinton.Re: The Lunatic Left
It appears to me that politics has changed over the past thirty years. There has always been difference between the right and left but now it's about personalities and individual careers of politicians. The political elite has always come from the upper social bracket of university educated men, even in the Labour Party. The difference now is that Parliament has become a step in a career trajectory rather than a target and is, therefore, a short term job in which the holder qualifies for the next step in the upper reaches of finance, or some other sinecure, as a reward for services rendered.Re: The Lunatic Left
Re: The Lunatic Left
I agree about Wilson and also some of his government. We haven't had a Labour government since then and all the good they did has since been dismantled by the Tories. Corbyn has yet to prove himself but he has not, as yet, proved himself to be a liar for sale as have Cameron, Osborne, Gove and the rest. I would rather trust someone who, at the very least, talks like an honest man than smirking crooks who care nothing for those whose lives and futures they are selling off because they won't be there when the hammers fall, they'll be raking in their rewards and out of reach of their victims behind well guarded gates.
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