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Originally Posted by Gin 'n Tonic
Much of Labour's future electability may well be predicated on how badly, or otherwise, the Tories **** up being in power.
They probably only have to avoid doing anything too stupidly right wing and hope that the economy continues to grow to retain their current position. But they are vulnerable to another Poll Tax debacle without anyone really holding them in check.
This is how the Tories win, with the right wing press helping to make people believe the economy is growing. It might be growing for the banks but it isn't growing for the rest. Included in this 'growing economy' is prostitution and illegal drug consumption. The figures are a joke. We only need to look at the rising poverty levels across the country to see so.
The problem for the Tories is that nowadays the right wing press is not the only source and those many millions who didn't vote in May are becoming engaged in politics. It seems almost trendy nowadays to get into activism, and it's the left who are acting. A lot of people have had enough of their **** and are now beginning to believe they can actually do something about it.
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Originally Posted by Hoopie1
For me, Labour need a leader that is neither a foaming at the mouth bearded marxist nor a PPE Oxbridge career politician ****. Sadly they couldn't come up with the goods. It's a shame they can't resurrect John Smith's corpse.
It says a lot that Corbyn is seen by many as such when he actually just wants to put the masses before the elite with common sense policies. I haven't heard him advocating Marxist communism. It's even more amazing that many who are affected by the right's agenda believe their ****e.