Noam Chomsky Claims Jeremy Corbyn Won An 'Enormous Victory' In The 2017 Election

[sheffbag]

9 hours ago, Anna B said:

This was about Corbyn in 2017, before the above, so not really relevant.

 

But at a guess he would have organised something to deal humanely with refugee boat arrivals, while urging all those fit young men to stay home and improve their own country, which he would have endeavoured to help. He would have encouraged all parties to get round the negotiating table rather than fighting in an unwinnable Ukraine war, and as for Covid, who knows? But if he had done what Boris did he would have been completely  hung out to dry, and lambasted whatever approach he took. 

 

"hey guys, please stay at home in your own country and help rebuild it"

"no, Albania doesnt need rebuilding and we are very happy coming over here"

"oh ok. want a house?"

 

You mean pay people to stay at home during lockdown through furlough at a cost of billions of pounds but was the right thing to do.

[Anna B]

7 hours ago, Jack Grey said:

Corbyn was the closest that the Marxists, Communists and Socialists would ever get to power in a capitalist country.

 

They thought they were so close they could taste it

 

But it reality Corbyn was just a professional activist who was unpopular with the silent majority and he destroyed the Labour party and it's taken them 10 years to recover

 

 

Corbyn is a Socialist, nothing more, nothing less. 

 

He was no more left than the Labour post war government of Clement Attlee, regarded as one of the most successful governments that brought many beneficial changes to the people of Britain. And that was at a time of post war austerity, so quite an achievement. 

 

I keep saying if you want a centrist party, vote Lib Dem. But at the moment we need socialists to balance the rampant neoliberalism of the far right Conservatives who are ruining the country. 

Edited April 27, 2023 by Anna B