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In reply to the discussion: Reassessing Corbynism: success, contradictions and a difficult path ahead [View all]T_i_B
(14,737 posts)11. The reason why they can get away with it right now....
....is that quite frankly the Conservatives don't look like a potential party of government either!
Politics in 2017 has degenerated into a contest to see who can bugger up the least! Pretty awful when you think about it.
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Denzil_DC
Jun 2017
OP
Is there any possible honorable way for Labour to go full-on anti-Brexit at this point?
Ken Burch
Jun 2017
#3
What was done to Greece is what will be done to ANY left government under the EU.
Ken Burch
Jun 2017
#7
You mentioned the Attlee example simply because you don't have any answer at all
Denzil_DC
Jun 2017
#8
I'm not "rabid anti-EU". I support them on the parts of what they do that are progressive.
Ken Burch
Jun 2017
#25
I'm fine with what Corbyn's doing there. I've never been rabidly anti-EU and you know it.
Ken Burch
Jun 2017
#28
First of all, I do agree that the Remain campaign was very poor; that if it had been better we might
LeftishBrit
Jun 2017
#29
"I think your feelings about Corbyn are driven by he apparent Labour-Tory cooperation in Scotland."
Denzil_DC
Jun 2017
#30
OK, I withdraw the word "apparent"...I use that word to mean "essentially proved"
Ken Burch
Jun 2017
#32
Well, if he stopped telling blatant lies about the SNP's record in government when he comes up here
Denzil_DC
Jun 2017
#33
While I do not defend the EU's treatment of Greece, it was not mainly an ideological assault
LeftishBrit
Jun 2017
#23
You seem not to have noticed that Denmark now has a right-wing, anti-immigrant government
Ken Burch
Jun 2017
#26
'The EU didn't exist when Labour created the post-war social welfare state'
LeftishBrit
Jun 2017
#24