General Election - December 12th, 2019

[Ban-jani]

I said 'leaders' ie important figures within the CP such as Corbyn's chief adviser Andrew Murray "After forty years in the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and then the Communist Party of Britain, he joined the Labour Party towards the end of 2016.[3][4] " “Britain’s Road to Socialism” – the 2011 revision of the Communist Party of Britain programme was written under his guidance. Read the links or check Wiki if you want to know about some of the others.

I’ve checked all and couldn’t find anything.

 

[Chippy_boy]

How do you know, are you their shrink?

Perhaps them trying to knife the little shit in the back, gave me a clue?

Or the 170 to 40 vote of no confidence in him, by his own party. Amazing he got 40.

I don't need to be clairvoyant.

 

[Ban-jani]

We all know what McDonnell stands for. Insane levels of debt to pay for needless nationalisations. Tax hikes on everyone including the not so well off, mass strikes and general disruption.

Us voters - around 40m of us - are not voting for that bollocks.

You could use a similar paragraph to describe the Tories with regards to what they’re all about and it’d sound much worse, I don’t think that helps the debate.

And we’ll see, a good proportion will be voting for Labour.

 

[George Hannah]

Evidence, Where is it?Where's the Marxism in the 2017 manifesto? That's what they ran on, that's what they would have implemented. Bring me evidence and we've a discussion, give me a picture of McDonnell standing in front of a banner with Karl Marx on it, and we have nothing.
As for...They could be ordering a pizza or planning to plant a bomb, I haven't a clue and neither do you.

Bring you evidence lol ? Fetch your own - trouble is you wouldn't recognise a factual statement even if it was pasted inside your eyelids.

 

[mcfc1632]

All the ones shown (except perhaps Starmer and the now reviled Watson) are committed Marxists and the key ones on the top row were leaders of the Communist Party of Great Britain for decades immediately before being installed in the Labour Party leadership group in 2017.

Yeah - well, that may be true - but that does not necessarily mean......

 

[George Hannah]

Was he?
I don’t know his life story but after a quick check online I cannot find anything.
For the record I don’t think he’s anywhere near as dangerous as Cummings who has a real dislike of our democracy and has broken the law.

If you read the links I supplied you would see that "Guardian journalist Seumas Milne, an old communist comrade of Andrew Murray, openly voiced nostalgia for the “huge social benefits” enjoyed under Soviet communism in the USSR and Eastern Bloc. Milne is now Corbyn’s Director of Strategy and Communications."

 

[Ban-jani]

If you read the links I supplied you would see that "Guardian journalist Seumas Milne, an old communist comrade of Andrew Murray, openly voiced nostalgia for the “huge social benefits” enjoyed under Soviet communism in the USSR and Eastern Bloc. Milne is now Corbyn’s Director of Strategy and Communications."

I’ve read that but was he a “leader” in the Communist Party or not?

 

[George Hannah]

I’ve checked all and couldn’t find anything.

I'm sorry I can't help with your reading skills but I did post a direct quote in my previous post.

 

[mcfc1632]

I think you might have missed something rather obvious: The UK isn't in Scandinavia.

Danish 300% car tax anyone? Do you think that would get much popular support here in the UK?

Oh, and by the way, your "manifesto" comment. Have you noticed how governments always adhere strictly to their manifestos? No, neither have I.

Yeah - as if McDonnell would declare his plans in a manifesto - he was evasive today.

Only May was that stupid

 

[George Hannah]

I’ve read that but was he a “leader” in the Communist Party or not?

Yes a leader, a major figure over 40 years and chair for several. It is interesting that "At the 2017 general election, the CPGB party fielded no candidates and gave its support to the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party. The CPB said it was the first election at which neither it nor the CPGB had fielded any candidates.[21][22] In March 2018, Susan Michie, a leading member of the CPB, said that the party would no longer stand against Labour in general elections. CPB members should be "working full tilt" for the election of Corbyn as prime minister, she said.[23][24]" @The perfect fumble please note.