I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned the anti-strike legislation. A party with less than 25% of the vote claiming that doing anything with less than 50% of a vote is undemocratic seems entirely reasonable to me... I wonder how many rights this lot will have done away with by the end of their term? Human rights, workers rights... what's next on the agenda?
They also want to change the rules around trade union funding of political parties, knowing that the Labour Party receive huge donations from the unions. Now if they were to extend that edict to billionaire businessmen and multinational corporations, you might claim a level playing field. But as one labour MP said today, they are 'trying to rig the funding rules'
they are also trying to get rid of the bbc, knowing that Sky will claim most of the users/business/profit from the vacuum created by the disappearance of the BBC, and as BBC News is the only slightly impartial news source, where the majority of people use to follow things like the Elections, then to replace this with Sky News who are firmly in the pockets of the Tories will have a dramatic effect on British politics. as you say the protest law and unions law are very worrying. As is their plans to push through the TTIP bill despite widespread opposition
Also I wish I could vite for SNP in Cardiff, as they speak a lot of sense, and are doing what Labour should be doing and fighting the Tories. Here's a great speech by the SNPs 20 year old MP.
Nicola Sturgeon was asked if she was going to put some SNP candidates up for election in England at the general election, but she said it wouldn't be appropriate. I'd vote for them if she did. Maybe she wants to rethink that stance in the future. They seem to be the only party with any weight who are opposed to austerity and who aren't afraid to expose the Tory sham for what it is.
I wish they'd just become the National Party instead of the Scottish National Party and run across Britain and N Ireland (even though the name sounds a bit fascist)
There are fears in Labour that Corbyn might actually win the Labour leadership. That would put the cat among the pigeons.
He's the only one that has the balls to stand up to the elites and the neo-Blairites. I hope he wins!
He is actually closest to my own views too, but I wonder how it would work in practicalities if a small fraction of the party's MPs actually agree with him. And the Mail etc would have a field day given his links with HAMAS and other palestinian groups.
This is the nice, level and unbiased comments article written in the Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...-Corbyn-win-and-destroy-the-Labour-Party.html
It's crazy that the one person in the Labour leadership who is inspiring the masses with passion, and who is standing up to the Tories and represents the ideologies and ideals that the Labour party was built on, is... the very person the labour parties own MPs and the press are trying to undermine and would like to marginalise
I have to say I find it bizarre that when it comes to politics, we are on the same wavelength, but when it comes to football, we tend to disagree on a lot of things!
It is funny, I found that I agree with Afctw on a lot of football stuff but almost totally disagree with him on politics! (maybe I'm just argumentative, or been drinking too much windolene...)
I thought that was just a random picture you used as an avatar, didn't realise you were actually Father Jack!
