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Corbyn did win, what's next?

A ridiculous series of lies from Cameron

“They met with the unions and gave them flying pickets. They met with the Argentinians, they gave them the Falkland Islands. They met with a bunch of migrants in Calais, they said they could all come to Britain."

PMQs , 27-Jan-2016

One element of truth on there - they did meet would-be migrants in Calais.
 
If this is referring to the Labour leadership, haven't they said that they'll re-introduce sympathy strikes, and they'll come to a arrangement with Argentina over the Faulklands? I heard as much from Corbyn's own lips. I don't know anything about the Calais/ migrant thing.

Telegraph on Fauklands

Secondary action, Huff Post
 
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I supported military action against the Falklands Argentina invasion even though Terry Wogan made some happy Irish quips at the time on the radio about it being the end of the islands. Unfortunately it put Thatcher in power for another ten years. She took the political credit for it even though it was the armed forces who saved her.

I do think Corbyn may have a point that there could be some sound trade between the Falklands, and perhaps a fair and just arrangement with regard to the oil resources there. What the Falkland Islanders don't want is mass immigration and racial problems which is what extreme liberal businessmen want.

I don't think there is anything wrong in itself in Corbyn meeting the Trade Unions. If Cameron and Blair had met with the doctor and nurses Unions beore now there would be less trouble in the hospitals now. Instead politicians spend their time meeting shady Russian oligarchs on their yachts in the Med.
 
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Henri McPhee said:
.......I do think Corbyn may have a point that there could be some sound trade between the Falklands, and perhaps a fair and just arrangement with regard to the oil resources there.........
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That wasn't his point at all. He is suggesting shared sovereignty.
 
MikeG said:
That wasn't his point at all. He is suggesting shared sovereignty.
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And Cameron said: "They met with the Argentinians, they gave them the Falklands", which is weird even in the most forgiving view. Perhaps he was speaking metaphorically or something.
 
Yeah, it's crap rabble-rousing politician-speak...........but it isn't completely the lie it was claimed to be.

Don't you think it a bigger point that a British political leader would publicly state that he'd consider sharing the sovereignty of the Falklands with the Argentinians than another leader using a poor choice of words in pointing out that this is what Corbyn was planning?
 
GlennB said:
And Cameron said: "They met with the Argentinians, they gave them the Falklands", which is weird even in the most forgiving view. Perhaps he was speaking metaphorically or something.
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Didn't Corbyn meet with the Argentinian ambassador? IIRC there were recent press reports.
 
Among all this chorus on the media at the moment for 'not enough blacks' and for the destruction of the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University, I do think that Corbyn could speak out about the theft of white farms in Zimbabwe, and the lack of a free press and independent judiciary amd clean government there.

Thanks to Mugabe there are only 300 white farmers left in Zimbabwe, which used to be the breadbasket of Africa. There is an indigenous population in the UK as well.
 
Henri McPhee said:
Among all this chorus on the media at the moment for 'not enough blacks' and for the destruction of the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University, I do think that Corbyn could speak out about the theft of white farms in Zimbabwe, and the lack of a free press and independent judiciary amd clean government there.

Thanks to Mugabe there are only 300 white farmers left in Zimbabwe, which used to be the breadbasket of Africa. There is an indigenous population in the UK as well.
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According to some, there is no indigenous population:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/dec/20/indigenous-britons-far-right

If there is one, it's very small and quite diffuse and there's no consensus that there was a homogeneous ancient British gene pool:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/british_prehistory/peoples_01.shtml
 
Henri McPhee said:
Among all this chorus on the media at the moment for 'not enough blacks' and for the destruction of the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University, I do think that Corbyn could speak out about the theft of white farms in Zimbabwe, and the lack of a free press and independent judiciary amd clean government there.

Thanks to Mugabe there are only 300 white farmers left in Zimbabwe, which used to be the breadbasket of Africa. There is an indigenous population in the UK as well.
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I would caution against this. Apart from the strength of the military, the only hold that Mugabe has over the people of Zimbabwe is that he has convinced them that Britain still interferes daily in the running of the country, and that he (Mugabe) is their only protection against the imperialist overlords. Giving him the ammunition of leadership statements in Britain in support of white farmers in Zim allows him to paint us as A/ meddling in the affairs on an independent country, and B/ being racists.
 
The Don said:
According to some, there is no indigenous population:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/dec/20/indigenous-britons-far-right

If there is one, it's very small and quite diffuse and there's no consensus that there was a homogeneous ancient British gene pool:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/british_prehistory/peoples_01.shtml
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There is still a Welsh language and a Welsh National Anthem. It's a clash of cultures. The Germans don't like the Poles and the Poles don't like the Jews. The Catholics in Ireland don't like the Protestants, and the Protestants don't like the Paddies. The Syrian opposition kill Christians. In my own area the West Indians and the Somalis don't like each other.

I accept that there always has been immigration into this country, and not everybody is descended from Anglo-Saxons, or Ancient Britons. There is a possibility that I'm descended from Huguenots many centuries ago in Alsace -Lorraine.

I accept also that many Syrian families might make excellent immigrants. It's just that there is a danger of racial problems. Muggings in Birmingham increased when the black population grew there. If I wanted to emigrate to Canada or Australia or New Zealnd I would have to fill up about three different forms and I regard myself as a red-blooded Englishman.
 
Henri McPhee said:
Muggings in Birmingham increased when the black population grew there.
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Evidence ?

And more specifically evidence that muggings increased disproportionately (compared to similar parts of the country) and that it was the increase in the size of the black population that was the cause (as opposed to other factors like increasing poverty, economic and social inequality and depravation)

Henri McPhee said:
If I wanted to emigrate to Canada or Australia or New Zealnd I would have to fill up about three different forms and I regard myself as a red-blooded Englishman.
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....what does that have to do with anything ?
 
With the Tories fracturing over Europe, the Lib Dems being brutalised and Labour split between Blairites and The Longest Suicide Note in History 2.0, we might be seeing the end of the 2.05 party system in Britain
 
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