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I hope Corbyn’s day of reckoning with his own party involves him sticking to his own principles – I think he will be respected for it which will further mute the press.
The ghastly mess of Syria will not be helped by further bombing-after two months of what must be over a thousand bombing raids can their be much left?
Fallon disgraced himself yesterday by simply referring to the Turkish downing of a Russian plane as ‘self-defence’; this is a grossly tendentious bit of spin indicative of how politicians reduce the dimensions of complex situations to two: us and them, encouraging knee-jerkism from the populace-utterly disgraceful. Corbyn could do wit losing a little of his politeness and exposing this nonsense as it happens.
If we deepen ourselves in this mire, the day of reckoning will certainly be enhanced.
An interesting post by FlipChartRick, Richard.
Look at the graph of day-to-day spending cuts…the one right at the bottom.
Effectively they are closing-down local government, or transferring the blame-factor to local as opposed to national politicians.
Quite incredible.
And the next one down is even more astounding. Quite how it fits in with being the party for business……
Link?
Sorry. Slow day!
https://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/austerity-ii-the-devolution/
Thought so
And agreed
Billy Bragg! There’s a blast from the past! Used to love listening to him.