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53. Corbyn has always been pro IRA, pro PLO etc and anti state of Israel.

Reply to Byronic (Reply #43)

Mon Feb 18, 2019, 03:30 PM

Feb 2019

Which matches a lot of the Labour left wing. He might be anti-Semitic as well, but foremost he is anti Israeli state.

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I'm in Wales right now. Planning my day and watching. cwydro Feb 2019 #1

You're hardly going to the game on Saturday ? OnDoutside Feb 2019 #8

I'll be in Ireland by Saturday. cwydro Feb 2019 #11

5.45pm Kick off, so a perfect time on Saturday Evening ! Hopefully you will get a better result OnDoutside Feb 2019 #13

Always a blast to watch in a pub. cwydro Feb 2019 #17

I was in Galway/Westport in September.... mitch96 Feb 2019 #36

I really like Westport, though I don't get up that direction often enough. There are only two OnDoutside Feb 2019 #66

Hmmmmmmm malaise Feb 2019 #2

Yes, they would be centre-right of the Labour Party, Luciana Berger was once a girlfriend of Blair's OnDoutside Feb 2019 #5

Soubry will be next I think Soph0571 Feb 2019 #19

I hope she is, but we'll see. There is a definite opportunity for a centrist party to take hold but OnDoutside Feb 2019 #22

I don't understand the constant hate on Corbyn ZeroSomeBrains Feb 2019 #28

Corbyn is like B. Sanders... Adrahil Feb 2019 #29

Staunch Blairites T_i_B Feb 2019 #44

Interesting and disappointing malaise Feb 2019 #48

I've seen them referred to as "Red Tories." n/t QC Feb 2019 #64

According to Momentum supporters... T_i_B Feb 2019 #65

Who do you think would be a decent leader instead of Corbyn? n/t QC Feb 2019 #67

David Lammy T_i_B Feb 2019 #68

Lammy's record looks interesting here -- QC Feb 2019 #69

Well one, Angela Smith, supports water privatization and thinks some people have a "funny tinge." suffragette Feb 2019 #61

Angela Smith's views on water nationalisation T_i_B Feb 2019 #63

Yikes, pro-fracking, too. Just really reading up on events today and trying to understand it. suffragette Feb 2019 #71

This is an old coal mining area T_i_B Feb 2019 #72

Thanks for the links. It must be so frustrating to keep ending up with pro-fracking elected suffragette Feb 2019 #73

Remainers which compose at least octoberlib Feb 2019 #3

This is so true lamsmy Feb 2019 #9

Labour will not succeed until Corbyn goes. RandySF Feb 2019 #4

He's old school, and not in a good way. Hardline, resistant to change, believes what he believes... OnDoutside Feb 2019 #6

Would that be Sanders? smirkymonkey Feb 2019 #49

He is not progressive at all - unless you call living in 1973 progressive? Soph0571 Feb 2019 #20

I agree. Regressive/reactionary populists on the left are not progressives. CrossingTheRubicon Feb 2019 #47

Fuck Jeremy Corbyn JI7 Feb 2019 #7

Umunna says they whole-heartedly support the People's Vote campaign. OnDoutside Feb 2019 #10

Sooner or later they will have to form an alliance with the Liberal Democrats T_i_B Feb 2019 #45

It will be a while yet. There's an awful lot of bitterness still, and OnDoutside Feb 2019 #51

Oh, Blairites and Lib Dems have disliked each other for some time T_i_B Feb 2019 #52

True, though I think the bigger reckoning is between the Tory factions. OnDoutside Feb 2019 #54

Again... T_i_B Feb 2019 #56

People have a tendency to start lighting sh*t on fire when the government stops listening pecosbob Feb 2019 #12

I'm afraid that the USA is heading in that direction. pazzyanne Feb 2019 #14

I believe the US is in a better position, with the Democratic Party holding up strong. Both main OnDoutside Feb 2019 #15

Sad part is it didn't just start with this administration in the U.S. pecosbob Feb 2019 #18

The biggest issue in all that is the watering down of regulation, which when attacked by capitalism, OnDoutside Feb 2019 #21

This isn't even the government that's not listening T_i_B Feb 2019 #46

The youth wing of the UK Labour Party has tweeted its reaction...... OnDoutside Feb 2019 #16

This is why I never, ever, EVER... Blue_Tires Feb 2019 #23

We should forget the curious circumstances of how he got elected in the first place OnDoutside Feb 2019 #24

Incredible that the Tories are a disaster & labour bronxiteforever Feb 2019 #25

We may have Trump NewJeffCT Feb 2019 #39

Agree. We are in much better shape. bronxiteforever Feb 2019 #59

Interesting to see so many people here siding with conservatives. QC Feb 2019 #26

Maybe do to his long history of antisemitism. nycbos Feb 2019 #38

Politics is more than just picking a winning side theboss Feb 2019 #62

It always seems to be a proxy war between factions of the left ZeroSomeBrains Feb 2019 #70

Weakening the opposition party to Conservatives is SO SMART....for conservatives. they saw how it beachbum bob Feb 2019 #27

Except Corbyn is pro-Brexit too... Adrahil Feb 2019 #30

labor should replace him, he has no magical hold on the position beachbum bob Feb 2019 #31

EXACTLY. Adrahil Feb 2019 #32

Labour did better in 2017 than in 2015 muriel_volestrangler Feb 2019 #34

That was before Corbyn decided to betray Labour voters. Adrahil Feb 2019 #40

And before the anti-semitism issue grew and grew. Byronic Feb 2019 #41

Yup. NT Adrahil Feb 2019 #42

There is a cautionary tale in this for our politics. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #33

It's like being a passenger on the Titanic and seeing the Iceberg before everyone else... Javaman Feb 2019 #35

If I was a citizen of the UK I would't have a political home. nycbos Feb 2019 #37

Exactly. Byronic Feb 2019 #43

Corbyn has always been pro IRA, pro PLO etc and anti state of Israel. OnDoutside Feb 2019 #53

Yes, he has Byronic Feb 2019 #55

My MP is one of those quitting Labour T_i_B Feb 2019 #50

Yes indeed Byronic Feb 2019 #57

She apologized quickly T_i_B Feb 2019 #58

Jeremy Corbyn supporters celebrate emergence of new thing to blame for his lack of success T_i_B Feb 2019 #60

And then there were eight... T_i_B Feb 2019 #74