I remember when Piers Corbyn was the famous one. Apparently, there are two more Corbyn brothers besides.
Greens and the like, do you regret the defeat of the miners in 1985?
"It has always seemed like a tall tale to me that we were causing these fluctuations," said George Galloway to Corbyn on Sputnik last month.
Corbyn set out that this was not a Left-Right issue, and then issued a thoroughly left-wing critique of the West's deindustrialisation, of the fact that jobs were therefore being reduced while CO2 was not, of how the likes of George Soros were the beneficiaries, of the trebling of energy costs, and of the holding back of development in what used to be called the Third World.
As with the EU, the real opposition was always going to come from the traditional Left. Once it got going again. It is getting going again now. Is it conceivable that anyone with views remotely approaching Corbyn's might be allowed anywhere near David Cameron?
To any climate change that there may be, and there is always some, we need an approach which protects and extends secure employment with civilised wages and working conditions, which encourages economic development around the world, which upholds the right of the working classes and of non-white people to have children, which holds down and as far as practicable reduces the fuel prices that always hit the poor hardest, and which refuses to restrict either travel opportunities or a full diet to the rich.
Corbyn set out that this was not a Left-Right issue, and then issued a thoroughly left-wing critique of the West's deindustrialisation, of the fact that jobs were therefore being reduced while CO2 was not, of how the likes of George Soros were the beneficiaries, of the trebling of energy costs, and of the holding back of development in what used to be called the Third World.
As with the EU, the real opposition was always going to come from the traditional Left. Once it got going again. It is getting going again now. Is it conceivable that anyone with views remotely approaching Corbyn's might be allowed anywhere near David Cameron?
To any climate change that there may be, and there is always some, we need an approach which protects and extends secure employment with civilised wages and working conditions, which encourages economic development around the world, which upholds the right of the working classes and of non-white people to have children, which holds down and as far as practicable reduces the fuel prices that always hit the poor hardest, and which refuses to restrict either travel opportunities or a full diet to the rich.
Therefore, we need to recover the understanding of the full compatibility between, on the one hand, the highest view of human demographic, economic, intellectual and cultural expansion and development, and, on the other hand, the most active concern for the conservation of the natural world and of the treasures bequeathed by such expansion and development in the past.
"Is it conceivable that anyone with views remotely approaching (Piers) Corbyn's might be allowed anywhere near David Cameron?" Brilliant.
ReplyDeleteLike a lot of people you only ever pretended to back Burnham until you had a good enough excuse to endorse (Jeremy) Corbyn, now you are only pretending to back Sadiq Khan until you have a good enough excuse to endorse George Galloway.
ReplyDeleteJeremy Corbyn supports Sadiq Khan, and that is good enough for me. Not that anyone in London could conceivably care tuppence what I thought about this.
DeleteThe Tories are abolishing Ed Miliband's taxpayer subsidies for windfarms, and are being opposed by Labour peers.
ReplyDeletePiers Corbyn would approve.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/16/onshore-windfarm-subsidies-tories-labour-lords-renewable-obligation
Labour Peers have always been a law unto themselves. Sometimes in a good way, but even so. Perhaps he ought to be made on?
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