British Politics Thread.

[Psychosplodge]

I don't think the majority of corbyn supporters are actual employed people either, but yeah there's no doubt the blarites didn't represent the working class either.

[Mr Mystery]

I'm a signed up, paid up Corbyn supporter, and I have a job. Same as many of my friends.

[Psychosplodge]

You're also closer to the middleclass southern elite that supported blair than the traditional working class labour voter, or are you doing skilled manual office work?

[Mr Mystery]

Skilled Manual Office Work.

But I'm in it for the socialism. All joking apart, I've lived my entire life under some form of neo-liberalism - and all I've seen is stuff stripped from the yoof. It's just not good enough.

I don't care if it puts my taxes up - at least then I'll see some kind of societal return on them. Free university benefits everyone equally. Nationalised Rail prevents the naked profiteering which can put prices up so high that it limits opportunities to 'follow the work' - especially if someone has been unemployed and on benefits for a while. In short - I want to actually see my tax money improve things, rather than just prop up an increasingly tenuous status quo. Properly fund our schools, and stop interference from utterly unqualified ministers like Michael Gove. Properly fund our other public services, rather than slowly strangle their budget then claim the only way to fix it is privatisation.

And I'm also hoping for a government that has absolutely no qualms about properly tackling corporate tax dodging. Because I'm sick of the 'scroungers' rhetoric when they point blank refuse to come at the problem from both angles.

[Psychosplodge]

free university benefits everyone

Not if they're sending people for the sake of it to keep them off the jobless figures for three-five years.
We've already seen entry requirements go up for office jobs that would have previously offered on the job training to now "any degree" a job that requires "any degree" doesn't really require a degree. Obviously pay hasn't gone up either so you're doing the same job you could have previously got leaving school with a mountain of debt round your neck at the same time.

[Mr Mystery]

If you're wanting to go to University, you need A-Levels. And to get A-Levels, you need some form of drive - and it's difficult to see anyone not wanting to go through that without progressing to Uni.

But it's removing that mountain of debt that's imperative. It's a restriction we as a country can well afford, both financially and socially, to do without.

[YorkNecromancer]

I'm a signed up, paid up Corbyn supporter, and I have a job. Same as many of my friends.

Same here. I like Corbyn and have a job.

I'll be honest, I've no idea how he's held on as long as he has in the face of the relentless hatred from his own party/the right-wing press. And I can't see him lasting beyond this coup.

Still, that's the majority of Labour MP's, isn't it? Their aspirations go no higher than being Diet Tory.

[Kirsten]

I know five people over here who have signed up to Labour to support him, even though they can't vote in the general elections. He has held on because of the masses of ordinary people who support him

[Mr Mystery]

Yup.

Since this coup started, 60,000 people joined Labour. I really don't see Jeremy Corbyn going anywhere any time soon.

[Psychosplodge]

Keep telling you though 60,000 isn't going to win no elections. If half a million stay home cause he's running things what's 60,000?

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