Weststander
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This gentle Labour patriarch is the ideal candidate:
Corbyn to appoint Minister of Peace
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The Birdman
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If not two jabs two jags Diane Abbot could do a job.
Beach Hut
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Pretty nifty left hand smash, Major owned him when he called him Britains' favourite bar steward
Heard/saw this on the Beeb earlier (referring to the earlier post about a Minister of Peace). It tells you everything you need to know about JC. The ideology is fine, a minister of peace, who can disagree with that idea? No one in this country surely. But our enemies do not give a sxxt about peace, an enemy is an enemy, ISIS, Taliban, All Quaeda, Russia, Argentina, whoever it may be.
JC would rather get a pretty headline than face an uncomfortable truth, and that extends to every one of his policies.
JC would rather get a pretty headline than face an uncomfortable truth, and that extends to every one of his policies.
...Corbyn's obviously looking to progress his IRA terrorist sympathising program to other terrorist organisations around the world!
Yes, but finding that job (that she can do) is probably beyond the wit of all our current political parties. Labour just drew the short straw...........
bWize
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- Nov 6, 2007
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I like Corbyn and his policies, but Abbot really does let the party down. It makes the MSM media hatchet jobs on Corbyn and the Labour party a lot easier.
He needs to cut her loose!
He can't, that's his problem (or one of them!) If you vote for Labour, how do you know who or what you are voting for? Is it Corbyn (who is putting up a much better show than expected), the PLP (quasi-Tories (aka Notting Hill Socialists), Blairites to the hilt), the JCL members who joined recently (Momentum, hard left, pretty much Militant tendency in disguise), or the few thousand other JCLs who took up the 50p (or whatever it was) to join option just to make a bit of mischief? Or maybe you'd be voting for trade union leaders and whatever the hell they believe in (apart from self-interest).
bWize
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Corbyn is a huge threat to the establishment and the "powers that be"and that's why the mainstream media go out their way to discredit him. It really doesn't help when you have genuine idiots like Abbott in the mix who just feed the media, who are ready to lap it up and put a negative spin on the bigger scheme of Labour.
I think it certainly needs the Hillary Benn or Andy Burnham types on the front bench, rather than Abbotts. Corbyn has done a good job clearing out the red tories and Blairites though and I think he would make a great and honest PM (No matter how demonised he is in the media)
RexCathedra
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This idea began in the US, with perennial US Democratic presidential candidate and former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who ran on a platform, inter alia, of creating a cabinet-level Department of Peace, with its appropriate Secretary.
His followers then extended the idea, and used to demand the creation of a Department of Peace at the state level, with a similarly-tasked official in each state government. When this came up at the state Democratic convention in 2006, chaos ensued. Why the state government of a state with 1.6 million inhabitants and no foreign policy responsibilities needed such a department was something they could never quite explain, beyond the fact that the Department of Defense was once the Department of War, and if there's a Department of War there has to be a Department of Peace, or you're not really committed to the notion of peace.
Symbolic politics of the worst kind. And I say that as a dyed-in-the-wool, politically active Democrat.
His followers then extended the idea, and used to demand the creation of a Department of Peace at the state level, with a similarly-tasked official in each state government. When this came up at the state Democratic convention in 2006, chaos ensued. Why the state government of a state with 1.6 million inhabitants and no foreign policy responsibilities needed such a department was something they could never quite explain, beyond the fact that the Department of Defense was once the Department of War, and if there's a Department of War there has to be a Department of Peace, or you're not really committed to the notion of peace.
Symbolic politics of the worst kind. And I say that as a dyed-in-the-wool, politically active Democrat.
Weststander
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Her natural sporting role would be as a shot-putter, or rugby prop forward.
Your first sentence needs amendment.
bWize
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In what sense? Putting "media" after MSM? It was late...
You must be mad if you believe in his policies, mad I tell ye.
studio150
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Would the other new member of his cabinet if elected be the Minister for taxing the rich
JC Footy Genius
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Labour .. committed to retaining our Nuclear deterrent costing tens of Billions led by someone who publicly says he would never use it. 
Weststander
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Labour .. committed to retaining our Nuclear deterrent costing tens of Billions led by someone who publicly says he would never use it.
We're always told JC is a conviction politician, holding firm on his lifelong beliefs. To make himself electable, he now supports the Trident programme and the UK's nuclear deterrant. More adaptable than we were led to believe.
JC Footy Genius
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Principles = Leading a party committed to retaining/renewing our Nuclear deterrent after a lifetime supporting unilateral nuclear disarmament
The Birdman
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Yes and it will be called Robin Hood department.
No one sane would ever use it.Labour .. committed to retaining our Nuclear deterrent costing tens of Billions led by someone who publicly says he would never use it.
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