HairyHammer 9:16 Mon Jul 13
Has the labour party died ?
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With Harriet Harmen supporting tax credit cuts by the conservative party within hours of Osbourne's speech it has led me to believe that the Labour party no longer can be looked upon as the party of the working class in any way.
I know since Blair the party had made big changes but the lilly livered decision to support the austerity measures of a party that mercilessly goes after the poor without impunity seemed to me like an action of a party that accepts defeat with actions of cowardice .
What now is the difference between the two parties and what is the point of even voting if stupid politicians like Harman exist to simply justify the status quo.
Labour have put a lot of emphasis on their policies for the reason why they lost , where for me the bigger picture was always how poor their leader was and how pathetically they refused to at least accept that their decisions and mistakes for the banking disaster played some part in the state they left the country in when they were voted out.
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cuzoftheeast
9:16 Mon Jul 13
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Hopefully
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mike hunt
9:24 Mon Jul 13
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died fucking years ago
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Nurse Ratched
9:26 Mon Jul 13
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No, it has always smelt like that.
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Far Cough
9:29 Mon Jul 13
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mike hunt 9:24 Mon Jul 13
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Sxboy_66
9:33 Mon Jul 13
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It died the day Blair was elected leader, it's just taken a while to lie down.
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After8
9:37 Mon Jul 13
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I don't think it is dead, it is just doing what we did after 1997 and not listerning to the public and thinking it knows best.
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whufcroe
9:39 Mon Jul 13
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Fair play to HH for understanding the Tories have to make the drastic cuts needed to clear up the mess Brown left us with........
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Fosters Boy
9:41 Mon Jul 13
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The Labour Party - of cunts, for cunts, by cunts
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threesixty
9:45 Mon Jul 13
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HAHA. Listening to Corbyn get destroyed by Krishnan on C4 news. It's like listening to ghost of Ken Livingstone circa 84!
50% tax and possibly higher?? Quotes that associate him with Hamaz and Hezbollah? lol!
WTF is going on with labour these days? It's like all the nutters have been let loose. How far left do you want to go before you fall off the cliff?
Note to Labour: Absolute poverty does not exist in the 5th largest world economy in 2015. If you can be "poor" but still have a PlayStation and a mobile phone thats not a cheap Nokia you're not poor.
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1964
10:06 Mon Jul 13
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"Has the labour party died ?"
Lets bloody hope so, eh?
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Nurse Ratched
10:11 Mon Jul 13
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Corbyn may well have been unearthed at low tide on Chesil beach, but unlike most politicians, at least we know exactly what he stands for.
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Fifth Column
10:14 Mon Jul 13
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I like Jeremy Corbyn. He is a good, honest, sincere man. If he became Labour Leader it would be a complete disaster for the Party.
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Joke Whole
10:20 Mon Jul 13
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Labour has sat back and watch it's traditional support wither away while it's leaders only cared about getting their hands on the nation's cash.
The mostly manual jobs (mining, dock work, ship building, car manufacturing, public transport) have either gone completely or replaced by a machine. Labour did seem to re-set it's sights on more middle income families, but, in general, these did not need or even want the "benefits" currently on offer from the Labour movement.
What was really needed was a party aimed specifically at that class of voter, with no historical ties to the Tolpuddle Martyrs et al.
What the country got was a troop of champagne socialists who wouldn't recognise a day's physical labour even if it has a big, red, neon sign above it proclaiming "This is (productive) work - it's what generates wealth and taxes".
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After8
10:20 Mon Jul 13
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Fifth we don't want him as leader as Labour will get thrashed under him and then learn their lesson once and for all.
We'd rather they went with someone hopeless like Burnham, lose then still try and go leftwards.
The labour party are doing exactly what we did after 97. I'm just glad it's not us for once.
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After8
10:22 Mon Jul 13
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Joke whole exactly. There's a Labour MP Jamie Reed. He's not ready yet but he's exactly what they need..
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alphaharps
10:33 Mon Jul 13
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Corbin would be hilarious as the leader and would do as well as Foot.
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alphaharps
10:33 Mon Jul 13
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Or even Corbyn
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1964
10:37 Mon Jul 13
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All the Labour voters I knew either all pissed off to Spain or Tory areas to live - fucking hypocrites the lot of them.
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alphaharps
10:40 Mon Jul 13
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Lol that's me. Although Southgate to Barnet wasn't much of a difference
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Vexed
10:42 Mon Jul 13
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Why dont you follow its lead Hairy?
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