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Old 15-12-2019, 16:24   #33
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: Election

To be fair Cashy, the demolition started with TB...Gordon Brown continued it and it went from there.

To be a credible electable party the manifesto has to be believable(even though most of us realise that it does not constitute any kind of real promise).
The Labour manifesto was not credible and it would have meant financial ruin and our children and their children paying back debts for the whole of their lives.
The politics were those of sixth form ideologists....with no visible means of paying for the giveaways.
It was not about fairness....you do not make the poor rich by making the rich poor.
And all those moneyed celebs might have been singing a different tune had Corbyn been elected(except most of these do not pay their share of taxes as their money is kept in offshore accounts...that is why their pontificating is so irritating)
The big problem with Corbyn is his past connections with terrorists and his reluctance to apologise or distance himself from these organisations.
The Anti semitism was also a factor...and the thuggery of Momentum.
Corbyn had zero leadership skills and it was felt that he was really just a puppet and that John McDonnell(another whose past does not bear scrutiny) was pulling the strings.

How many ways do you need to tell a leader that their popularity is zero?
He did not listen, the party did not listen....this election was all about letting those in parliament know that we felt sidelined...disposable....that we were angry at how democracy had been dismissed.

I think that some of them might have got the message...but it was written on a P45.
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