UK Politics Thread

That letter is absolute madness, the ravings of a frothingly angry person farting pure rage.

Unhinged is the word that springs most to mind.

I think Piers Morgan is an insufferable prick but this was only going to go one way.

I hate Corybn for bursting on the scene the way he did, giving a little ray of hope to the point he generated the biggest youth vote for 25 years.

He had a message, principled for sure. But peeling below the surface revealed a ridiculous amount of self righteousness and total lack of self awareness. I'm sure he's even convinced himself all the antisemitism findings even now were nonsense.

After the dust settled, I guess I hated him most for not being what alot of people hoped and revealing to be who he actually is.

Danno He's a nightbird mate, don't you know? Awake most of the night to deal with his uni and gaming business,  then asleep most of the evening 

I think Corbyn did so much damage to a lot of "sensible" politics, especially for the under 40s, who still have this blinkered view of him

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Just watched the full interview with Corbyn. Piers Morgan is incapable of any kind of discussion

Given the events of the last year or so, if Corbyn had been in charge his tankie foreign policy views would have been disastrous in regards to Ukraine and the Israel / Palestine situation.

Still think a Corbyn led government would have managed COVID far better than the Johnson one did. They would have been torn apart by the papers for spending too much money (which would have been less with their approach than the Johnson government) and for taking away liberties (also less than the Johnson government), but I'm sure our death rate would have been lower.

Ukraine would have been a disaster though. Hopefully there would have been some sensible people in the room to say that they need to offer support at least at a continued rate (I understand we were already sending quite a lot of equipment and support to Ukraine for a number of years). In the grand scheme of things, it likely wouldn't have made a huge difference, as US is by far the biggest contributor to Ukraine's defence, but the messaging would have been awful and further damaged UK's reputation on the world stage.

Israel-Palestine would have been an absolute disaster and torn the party apart by a far greater extent then it is at the moment.

Am I remembering correctly that at the time he opposed the interventions against Serbia NATO aggression/expansionism?

There’s a whole slice of the old left, which has bled through to the generation who’ve learned their politics from memes, where their domestic politics seems enormously attractive but their foreign policy instincts are still utterly Cold War. And there’s zero examination of these position as if instead of thinking having good opinions makes someone good they’ve got it flipped and say I am good so none of my opinions could possibly be bad.

On COVID a Labour government turning the cash taps on to the NHS and social care provision probably would’ve been cheaper than the Johnson-Hancock approach of handing multi-billion pound cheques to companies with no prior experience in medical care. Privatisation is almost always more expensive to the Treasury than public ownership, look at the trains and water companies, or prisons, or social care, or emergency housing, or additional hospital beds.

It helps that this week is rather relaxed due to Friday being November 17th... And that due to some extended family matters I've kind of screwed up my sleep schedule

That he seems to crumble under pressure and gets furious when challenged doesn’t feel like a great match for a crisis either. Although we all know that John McDonnell would’ve been the actual boss and he appears better at being a politician than Corbyn.