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To an extent, @trcanberra, I understand your opinion. However, apart from countries in turmoil (like Greece, for all the good it did them), parties from the extremes do not get elected. JC is not saying anything much different from parties on the extreme left, like the Socialist Workers Party. What is the total number of MPs those parties who espouse similar policies to JC have managed to get elected in the past 40 years? Zero. Zilch. None.

Whatever the attraction of the extremes, they do not have the support in most countries to make them electable. There was no argument during our last election that Ed Milliband wasn’t left-wing enough. Parties become more centre-ground because the electorate is the centre. The big battles between left and right have been fought, won and lost, so what point is there in a party who wants to refight battles already lost?

While I do not believe Labour under Corbyn will suffer the humiliation at the next election the Lib-Dems faced at the last, I can only see them losing more seats – specifically in the South. To me, the Labour Party is being led away from any chance of winning the next by people who aren’t even members of the party. While the previous electoral college Labour used was deeply flawed, Milliband’s replacement of it has proved the disaster for the party many predicted when it was brought in.

Just as in the 80s, having the main opposition unelectable is hugely damaging to democracy.

I did vote Milliband in the last leadership election, @meanmistermustard, but the other one.

While I do not blame the Scots for voting SNP in May, though there can be no argument that the SNP were used by the Tories to scare the electorate South of the border. Scottish Labour does need reinventing. The shame is that it provided the Tories with a weapon that lost Labour seats in England as well as in Scotland.

15 to 30 minutes to go.

Damn!

Oh crap! It is Corbyn by a landslide. The Tories must be laughing their arses off at the stupidity of Labour. Just how bad it is we’ll find out when we see how many of Labour’s big beasts refuse to serve in his shadow cabinet.

A tragic day for this Labour supporter who cannot, in good conscience, vote for a Labour Party that has shifted so far to the left.

“A tragic day for this Labour supporter who cannot, in good conscience, vote for a Labour Party that has shifted so far to the left.”

Whereas I often vote for them here with a heavy heart when they have moved so far to the right.

Locally it seems we have a new Prime Minister. A former treasurer once made dire predictions about us being on the verge of becoming a Banana Republic. Violent transitions aside; it seems we have now become just that with all of our recent changes of PM while still in office (by both sides of politics now).

Back when Labor did this the Libs were all “holier than thou” – and played the instability card at the subsequent elections – at least they will have to ditch this now as they have shown that they are the mostly the same sort of treacherous self-interested types that most politicians seem to be.

meanmistermustard said
A new unauthorised biography has been published on David Cameron (UK Prime Minister) by his ex-friend Lord Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott. Ignoring the motives for the book can you publish a book about a real life person with anecdotes and then admit when questioned they may not be true? Where does the line get drawn between an unverified anecdote and writing lies based on one persons account?

In the movies? “Based on  actual events”.