Labour Party Leadership Deputy - Tom Watson, spent a chunk of his speech thanking Unions, by name Leader - Jeremy Corbyn, a man who has never taken a role involving responsibility at any point in his life. By a landslide. Winners - David Cameron and George Osbourne.
It'll certainly liven up the Labour Party now, to actually have a leader who will give a straight answer to a straight question will be unprecedented. Labour's spin doctors are currently carrying out their suicide pact...
We will have an opposition that actually opposes and that represents millions on the left who have not hitherto had a voice. The winner is British politics imo.
Agreed we will have a real alternative. But there has to be a better representative of this alternative than Corbyn, surely? Let's see how it plays out, at the moment I can't see past the Tories for 10 years at least. Mind you, that may have been the same whoever Labour chose and Corbyn may surprise me.
10 years of Tories? Wait until the next (imminent) global crash and the middle classes become embroiled and affected and you just may see a huge swing to the left. Corbyn may not be the answer but he is, for now, a massive step in the right direction.
All depends whether Blair, Miliband and Mandelson start a new SDP type breakaway as rumoured, the New Labour voters are unlikely to vote for Old Labour...
Warnings from Jordan that 2 in 100 Syrian "refugees" are ISIS Jihadists with malicious intent - borders going back up all over Continental Europe - countries making it a criminal offence for immigrants to breach razor-wire fencing - the refugee crisis predicted to get much worse... ... are we seeing an end to the open-bordered EU? Was it just a fantasist's adventure?
Presumably the open borders thing was intended to be for EU nationals only? It's great being able to get a train across Europe and not getting checked but it doesn't make sense to have no idea who is where. 2% seems an awfully high prediction.
Migration from Middle East and Africa to Europe looks to be a permanent feature rather than an aberration. There are many wars on that continent and I can't see that changing in a generation. Open Europe was a nice idea that sadly will no longer be possible for these external reasons. It does look like the nature of the EU will change now. How this fits in with the concessions that Cameron is seeking to obtain pre-referendum is not clear, except that, with huge issue of migration on the EU agenda, other leaders will surely give him short shrift. Agree about the 2% jihadis being surprisingly high, but that was apparently the figure given to Cameron on his latest visit to the Middle East
We still, I think, export more nutters to Syria/Iraq than we get back. Long may it continue. Or a huge swing to the right. Extremism of all sorts flourishes in times of trouble.
How does anyone get to a 2% figure on jihadis crossing the borders? Have they got agency staff in high vis jackets and clipboards asking everyone crossing if they are terrorists? For sure it will happen and it's a problem but this 2% must have been made up as an excuse for country's in the EU to shut up shop. More an exercise in Euro MP's trying to save face.
Butch the Rooster Sarah was in the fertilized egg business. She had several hundred young pullets and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs. She kept records and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced. This took a lot of time, so she bought some tiny bells and attached them to her roosters. Each bell had a different tone, so she could tell from a distance which rooster was performing. Now, she could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells. Sarah's favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen but, this morning she noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all! When she went to investigate, she saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover. To Sarah's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job, and walk on to the next one. Sarah was so proud of old Butch, she entered him in a Show and he became an overnight sensation among the judges. The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the "No Bell Peace Prize" they also awarded him the "Pulletsurprise" as well. Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the unsuspecting populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention? Vote carefully in the next election. You can't always hear the bells.
