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Nihil

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11. I see him as a Foot or a Smith (or a Livingstone or a Benn) rather than a Kinnock or a Blair ...

Reply to Ironing Man (Original post)

Tue Dec 1, 2015, 09:31 AM

Dec 2015

i.e., someone who actually has principles that extend beyond
"filling my pockets and those of my friends".

If there were a few more Labour MPs with integrity & principles then
Corbyn would be in a very good place. As it is, he is surrounded
by braying Tories no matter which way he looks.

Right man, wrong time? (i.e., he arrived in place before the Blairites
had been shitcanned.)

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Highlight:

the inevitable Jeremy Corbyn thread.... [View all] Ironing Man Nov 2015 OP

If he doesn't allow a free vote on Syria..... T_i_B Nov 2015 #1

I find it mindbogglingly shortsighted Denzil_DC Nov 2015 #2

If you placed Jeremy Corbyn in charge of a whelk stall Donald Ian Rankin Nov 2015 #3

If the PLP can't represent their own activists.... T_i_B Nov 2015 #4

I think that's a non-sequitur. Donald Ian Rankin Nov 2015 #6

to illustrate... Ironing Man Nov 2015 #7

From Scotland to South East England...... T_i_B Nov 2015 #10

"By contrast, the PLP are, for obvious reasons, representative of the much larger group ... Denzil_DC Nov 2015 #5

In my opinion, neither... LeftishBrit Nov 2015 #8

I think most people learned from the last election to treat polls with a pinch of salt. Denzil_DC Nov 2015 #9

I see him as a Foot or a Smith (or a Livingstone or a Benn) rather than a Kinnock or a Blair ... Nihil Dec 2015 #11