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The actual evidence points to them being popular. According to a yougov poll in November and reported by The Independent on 23rd November- "The most popular is the 50 per cent tax rate for earnings over £123,000: 64 per cent of voters support that, with just 20 per cent opposed and 16 per cent...

Thanks for that (genuinly) at least you try and address the issue unlike some on this board who just rebuff with smears and insults. I reject your idea of opposing the failed neo-liberal establishment as being stuck in the past. I think rather the zeigeist points in the opposite direction...

By your definition, so far has the Overton window swung to the right that you would need to include in your definition of hard left leader every post war prime minister up to Thatcher including Attlee, Wilson, |Heath and especially that well known Trot, Harold Macmillan. So in your view once...

Of course, your right.I know, wouldn`t be a good idea to ditch this socialist malarkey and just give people just a "tinge" of socialism and form a new "middling" party or some such name - maybe "independent group" or "liberal democrat". It would be free of all these nasty lefty Trots and would...

Well do so then, its obviously your natural home. As with Corbyn, Chris Williamson is one of the leading anti-racist campaigners of his generation. To accuse him of anti-semitsm or racism of any kind is absurd and outrageous. The Jewish Chronicle, a zionist supporting periodical, that well...

Yes it did, but where did it come from - I thought there was no magic money tree?

Yes of course you should stay in the party, but not actively campaign against the leader or party and accept the conference decisions in good grace. Equally accept the right of mps such as Chris Williamson to stay in the party too and not be hounded out for alleged support for anti-semitism.

Red Giant was just, in this case, explaining the facts. Why the ad hominem attacks? Why does it matter if he`s in Tralee or wherever? Why not address the argument instead?

When not subverting the UK state from my dingy Moscow basement, I have occasionally been known to frequent the west stand upper, and make the odd trip to Gillingham with Liz Costa, and buy Gulls Eye from Lenny Rider on the corner of Newtown Road. Not that it has any bearing on this political...

Maybe true, but not for the party he is supposedf to be representing.

I didnt know that about their allegiences in Ireland. The Green detailed policies seem really good. If they joined the Tories here they of course lose my vote. I suppose things can get a bit muddier with the need for coalitions under PR.

I support many of the aspirations of the labour party which they share with the Greens as part of the progressive democratic left. I see the Bernie Sanders/AOC wing of the Democratic Party and the Greens in the USA as part of the same movement. Anti imperialist, anti-racist, democratic...

Whats not true is that you said that if the labour party was led by anyone else other than Corbyn they would be doing better. Its not him its his policies which could have been espoused by other Labour MPs.

Rubbish! Labour is supposed to be a Democratic Socialist Party as defined in its constitution, not a party of neo-liberal blairite careerists. Other parties are available. I dont like Chuka Ummana much, but at least he left to join a party that matches his own views. Kyle, Blair et al should...

Jolly Red Giant is spot on. And I am one who has lived in this city for 60 years!

Not true. Do you think that if someone like Chris Williamson had been elected the attacks would not have been as severe? Its not really about his personality. Corbyn is being attacked for his long held socialist, ant-racist anti-imperialist world view, shared by very many in the labour party...

Agree. Also the stranglehold the right of the party seem to have on the party`s disciplinary mechanisms so good socialists such as Ken Livingstone, George Galloway and Chris Williamson are thrown under the bus!

Huge mistake "professionalising" nursing by making them do degrees instead of getting pay right from the off whilst they attended nursing college and also learnt on the wards.

It can only spend as much it likes within the limits of inflation and yes interest rates would be one of the tools but not as restricted as traditional policies e.g. "government should be directly involved continuously over the cycle, by putting in place structural macroeconomic programs that...

I tend to agree. I have spouted on about MMT merely to counter the assertions by some that there is "no magic money tree" , the economy is like a household budget, we risk giving our children unsustainable debt, etc, etc. Using MMT analysis may help paper over the cracks in capitalism but on...