Mainwaring posted:

Corbyn often has good policies but is fundamentally bad at the job of being leader of the opposition. He'd probably be a pretty good shadow work and pensions secretary or something idk.

Fallen Hamprince posted:

people say labour's all incompetent but look at the competition in recent years:

- david cameron, the guy who assfucked his entire career and legacy and possibly/probably destroyed the UK in the process
- theresa may, the lady who looked at brexit and said "yeah, i want to be in charge of that 4 sure", running as a populist despite being PM and leader of the rich people party
- boris and that hosed up puppet-looking midget who's name i forget who accidentally succeeded in brexiting and then knifed each other in the back
- snp, a party that literally only runs in a small fraction of the country
- lib dems (lmao)

that corbyn is running against all these people and doing historically badly is a testament to how unusually terrible of a leader he is

Kurtofan posted:

the english are God's blight

Concerned Citizen posted:

https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/866809792878215169

quote:

Boris Johnson faces criticism today after calling Jeremy Corbyn "monstrous" - for saying something he said himself 12 years ago.

The Tory Foreign Secretary slammed the Labour leader in a high-profile press conference with his US counterpart, Rex Tillerson.

It came after Mr Corbyn linked Western foreign policy to the rise of terrorism in his first speech since the Manchester terror attack today.

He said we "must be brave enough" to admit the war on terror has failed, and "that assessment in no way reduces the guilt of those who attack our children."

...

In the strongest condemnation of Mr Corbyn yet, he said: "Now is not the time to do anything to subtract from the fundamental responsibility of those individuals, that individual in particular, who committed this atrocity.

"And I think it is absolutely monstrous that anybody should seek to do so.”

There was just one problem - Mr Johnson has made similar comments himself.

...
And those comments, like Mr Corbyn's, were in the raw aftermath of a terror attack.

Mr Johnson wrote in the Spectator one week after the London bombings: "It is difficult to deny that they have a point, the Told-You-So brigade.

"As the Butler report revealed, the Joint Intelligence Committee assessment in 2003 was that a war in Iraq would increase the terror threat to Britain.

"The Iraq war did not create the problem of murderous Islamic fundamentalists, though the war has unquestionably sharpened the resentments felt by such people in this country, and given them a new pretext.

"The Iraq war did not introduce the poison into our bloodstream but, yes, the war did help to potentiate that poison."

quote:

The top Conservative was attacking the Labour leader live on Channel 4 News this evening.

It came after Mr Corbyn said we "must be brave enough" to admit the war on terror has failed in a landmark speech following the Manchester suicide bombing.

Presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy read out a quote to Mr Fallon: "Isn't it possible that things like the Iraq war did not create the problem of murderous Islamic fundamentalists, though the war has unquestionably sharpened the resentments felt by such people in this country and given them a new pretext?"

Mr Fallon thought this was a comment from Mr Corbyn's speech and went on the attack: "Well they are not entitled to excuses."

But he was left dumbfounded when he found out they were actually words from an article by Boris a week after the 7/7 bombings in 2005.

Mr Guru-Murthy said: "Those are actually the words of Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary.

"He goes on to say, 'the Iraq war did not introduce the poison into our bloodstream but, yes, the war did help to potentiate that poison'."

A flustered Mr Fallon said: "Well I don't agree with that."

The presenter replied: "So Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, is wrong?"

financially racist posted:

because trump showed the world that you can say whatever idiot poo poo you want and still win the election

exmarx posted:

Pierson posted:

when I was in school they assigned us into groups ('houses') named after saints and we got points throughout the year which we traded in for ??????????

i'm not sure if it was meant to make us competitive against our fellow man or what

WINNINGHARD posted:

i watched about four hours worth of interviews and speeches by this "corbett" guy and he seems like a nice, down to earth guy who is in touch with his feelings. youd have to be a big time asswipe to dislike him.

Bryter posted:

Looks like it was unlisted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViyZf7jpHgs

exmarx posted:

logikv9 posted:

if you're a corncob but also an orb at the same time does it cancel out or what

Fallen Hamprince posted:

SHILL ALARM SHILL ALARM SHILL ALARM

https://twitter.com/adwooldridge/status/870335968536129537

Concerned Citizen posted:

ATTN: jim messina
FROM: cc
RE: yourself
MSG: go gently caress

Helsing posted:

https://twitter.com/JasonFarrellSky...-live-news-line

Concerned Citizen posted:

Shear Modulus posted:

what are kensington and chelsea

Woof Blitzer posted:

Someone pls tell me why Corbyn is bad/good, I hate critical thinking

exmarx posted:

https://twitter.com/NickCohen4/status/860376035157737472

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

the MSM is out for the pinkos

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

i am very sorry NYT is staffed by normal people who are not into either commie or nazi memes

Gum posted:

Labour/SNP/Lib Dem vote splitting for the most part

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/politico/status/873459716478906368

Venom Snake posted:

Am I correct in saying there seems to be a Corbyn that exists entirely in news articles....and then there is the one that exists in real life? For all the screaming by people like that politico guy Corb doesn't come off as being unreasonable about foreign policy at all.

unwantedplatypus posted:

In what way are they different?

Baloogan posted:

lol r u serious
he looks like a warmed over cuckmunist.