Labour Purge Begins

[Tyrannical]

Don't worry, your "Conservative" party is still pretty left.

[JimC]

Well said, except here it's 18. I've always wondered why it isn't 17 years and 3 months, if they really think life begins at conception.

[mistermack]

Well said, except here it's 18. I've always wondered why it isn't 17 years and 3 months, if they really think life begins at conception.

I've often wondered how the US has ended up with the age being 16 in most states, 17 in a few, and 18 in the rest. That really is a pathetic state of affairs. Why on earth should that be something to be decided at local level?

Personally I would adopt 16 all over. With a new offence of getting a girl pregnant before the age of 18. Which would only apply to men over the age of 20.

[pErvinalia]

Corbyn has executed Order 66. The Great Labour Purge has begun.

First victim: arch-moderate Simon Danczuk, for the crime of flirting with a young woman.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35204398

The guy (Danczuk) is not respecting the will of the party. What do you expect should happen when you openly and continually criticise the massively popular leader of your party? People need to keep their criticism of party politics internal or get the fuck out.

[pErvinalia]

Can't stand Corbyn but this is hardly his doing, the real Labour purge of course will be in 2020 when Labour get reduced to a party about the size of the Lib Dem's

Is this prediction of similar rigour to your last opinion regarding Corbyn - that being that he had absolutely no hope of winning the Labour leadership?? Jonno, you hate Corbyn because he wants to give a lot of power back to the people (as opposed to corporations and the military industries), and you as an authoritarian can't handle such a concept.

[pErvinalia]

Corbyn the man who gives hope to the hopeless

If anyone should be considered "hopeless" it should be people who hold the conservative view of human nature that you hold. Creativity and innovation is stifled by conservatives, because they think individuals' wants and passions should be reigned in to fit with old orders of hierarchy. That to me is the very definition of "hopeless".

[pErvinalia]

Yeah its got so left wing there now I begin to look like Seth and Seth thinks I'm a communist

Seth think everyone to the left of him is a communist. You are in no way at all a progressive. For years you've been spouting simplistic authoritarian nonsense out of the same fear that has Seth trapped in conservatism too.

My theory is that you were mugged at some point between now and RD.net (where you used to be a progressive) and lost faith in humanity. But you've yet to confirm or deny this.

[mistermack]

Corbyn has executed Order 66. The Great Labour Purge has begun.

First victim: arch-moderate Simon Danczuk, for the crime of flirting with a young woman.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35204398

The guy (Danczuk) is not respecting the will of the party. What do you expect should happen when you openly and continually criticise the massively popular leader of your party? People need to keep their criticism of party politics internal or get the fuck out.

All very commendable I'm sure. Except that Jeremy Corbyn has spent all of his political life openly criticsising his own leadership.

That's why people feel free to criticise him now. He can't object to it, without being a hypocrite.
That's why he's using this texting business as a way to attack a critic. He can't do it honestly and openly, without being guilty of hypocrisy.

[pErvinalia]

Bullshit. Criticism should be internal, or it's against the party. What sort of party would allow its shadow ministers and members writing regular pieces in newspapers dissing the leader?

I reckon he's been really lenient with these traitors. But their grace period is over. They need to stop openly revolting. Keep it internal or quit. Fucking cowards.

[mistermack]

Bullshit. Criticism should be internal, or it's against the party. What sort of party would allow its shadow ministers and members writing regular pieces in newspapers dissing the leader?

I reckon he's been really lenient with these traitors. But their grace period is over. They need to stop openly revolting. Keep it internal or quit. Fucking cowards.

When you've spent about thirty odd years in direct opposition to your own leadership, openly revolting at every turn, dissing your leaders, you have to expect the same if you become leader.

You obviously have no answer to the point, or you wouldn't ignore it.
You say bullshit, but can't think of any kind of rebuttal. Which make me think that you are the one who is bullshitting.

[pErvinalia]

He hasn't openly dissed his leaders (at least not regularly like the current bunch of cowards, AFAIK). Where are you getting this from?

[mistermack]

He hasn't openly dissed his leaders. Where are you getting this from?

From living here, for the whole period that he's been an MP.

But if you like, look him up in wiki and other sources, if you want to know about him.

As an MP he is known for his activism and rebelliousness, frequently voting against the Labour whip when the party was in government under New Labour leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

[pErvinalia]

He's allowed to vote how he likes, isn't he? That's not dissing a leader. That's voting with principle.

[pErvinalia]

Where are the links of him in the press slagging off at the leader and damaging the party?

[mistermack]

Where are the links of him in the press slagging off at the leader and damaging the party?

You'll have to do your own homework as you clearly know nothing about him.
What part of rebelliousness are you having trouble with?