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| Britain |
| U.K.'s left wing takes left turn into oblivion |
| 2015-09-13 |
| [WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Jeremy Corbyn, whose steady and surprising march to victory runs parallel to Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... ' unexpected success in the Democratic presidential race, is a shambling, self-righteous repository of every second-rate, lazy, 1960s Marxist nostrum. And Labour's activists can't get enough of him. They haven't just picked the lowest card in the deck; they have slammed it belligerently on the table, giving Corbyn 59.5 percent of the votes in a four-candidate race. Fifty-nine point five percent for a man who has never held any office, who has spent 30 years rebelling against his party, and whose speaking style makes Ron Paul look like a mesmerising demagogue. Corbyn's victory speech was a precursor of what is to come. He might have tried to reach out, to be emollient, to reassure voters that not everything they read about him was true. Instead, he ran through some Leftist boilerplate about inequality punctuated by repeated attacks on the media. His supporters lapped it up, but Labour moderates are in despair. Many of the party's senior figures have already declared that they won't serve under Corbyn, and there is a real chance that they will break away, forming a rival Center-Left party and thus, under Britannia's first-past-the-post system, giving the Conservative Party a decade of easy election wins. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Ingsoc It won't go away. It may go into remission, but it'll come back when given the opportunity. People covet. People hate other people. People steal. Socialism is just a organized form of such group behavior. Appealing to base instincts of the creature never has found an empty audience. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-09-13 08:29 |
| #1 Oblivion for Labor or oblivion for Albion? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-09-13 07:18 |