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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
It was the title of the article that drew my attention..... 'Politicians are only in it for themselves'.
Now where have I read that before?
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Much of what you say I am in agreement with you Margaret. It seems our local MP Graham Jones is quite the Blairite. I'm dismayed that our local CLP have not reigned him in. I've been following him on twitter and tried to pull him up on several occasions. An example was him using a statistic from a poll of local members in which he claimed supported his yes vote to the bombing of Syria. But when I looked at the poll he was quoting from, the question put to members didn't mention the bombing of Syria but asked did members support the UN resolution calling for a political resolution. More recently, just last night, he was claiming that Paul Mason on newsnight was threatening the Blairites like himself with "Corbryn's thugs on the streets".
The only think I don't understand is this idea that Corbryn is a weak leader. Here is a man who is standing up to not only these career politicians in his own party, who you quite rightly point out have sold us all down the river, but a man who the whole establishment is terrified of getting into power because they know he will expose them for what they are. The MSM is the establishments weapon of choice in order to disseminate distorted facts and outright lies to discredit him. Yet he stands firm.
Since Corbryn became leader you have seen the Tory party do u turn after u turn. If just googled "Tory u turns under Corbryn" and this is the first hit I got and its not even up to date
Jeremy Corbyn's first 100 days: 11 things Labour leader has achieved since he came to power - Mirror Online
Best wishes
Laa