Biggest political hypocrite 2016

So if we ignore Corbyn who hasn't been nominated who would people vote for? I'm going for Daniel Hannan. The lie about the NHS dominated the referendum and it is something he doesn't even believe in!

Would be interesting to hear if the Corbynites here agree with Momentum who has put their support behind McClusky , they claim Corbyn needs McClusky

Wonder who wrote the letter to the I,

At least Attlee was elected as PM - it doesn't seem likely that Corbyn ever will be.

There is no need for any campaign to discredit Corbyn, he is more than capable of doing it on his own

A letter in the letters page of The I yesterday said, regarding the campaign to discredit Corbyn:

"The same tactics were used against the only radical leader Labour had in the last century. Clement Attlee's policies, which brought so many benefits to ordinary people, were ridiculed by a right wing press. Plus ca change?"

Just did it dj. It appears I'm not trying hard enough! Only halfway to being a trot.

Maybe it's the horse that did for me. As my lovely friend told me years ago when we were teenagers, horses are a very bourgeois occupation (although she wasn't quite as polite as that)

She's great thanks dj

I might do your quiz when I get back from her. Sanity in a sorry world

I have already have looked it up .

There has always been divisions in the Labour Party, and I can go back to Hugh Gaitskill without having to search the Internet or read blogs .

Well well Monica - you're starting to sound like a journalist.

The term "extreme" is one that has different meanings to different people. I expect Margaret Thatcher would have described activists in the anti-apartheid movement as "extremists" but some people would have seen it differently.

Nobody can argue with that Monica there will be a stampede to look up fissiparous now .

The quiz seems to aim at identifying Stalinists rather than Trotskyists. but the subtleties of identifying different factions in Communism/socialism has always defeated me.

Left or right, the more to the extremes in political beliefs people are the more fissiparous they seem to be.

tompride.wordpress.com/2016/08/15/are-you-a-trotskyist-take-this-short-quiz-and-find-out/

How's your horse, nightowl?

Wonder why,

Corbyn wasn't on the list.

... and remember the discussion is limited to a discussion of hypocrisy, not of anything else, so discussing Corbyn's hypocrisy is not to suggest other politicians are, overall, better or more worthy individuals, just that whatever their failings, and they may be much worse, they are not particularly given to hypocrisy. Corbyn is just very noticeably prone to hypocrisy where others aren't.

Suppose it's just coincidence that the only one to be challenged is the one most critical of Corbyn .

And this thread really shouldn't be counted as a serious political debate - it's just a silly aside!

Isn't it...?

And as the OP says 'here are some nominations' (no indication of where that 'link' comes from...)

Surely we can all feel free to add our own?

Grrr, iPad, 'it's what this thread is about.'

Politicians are fair game.It's what this thread is about.

Just the usual defend the leader regardless

The OP says 'Biggest political hypocrite 2016 ' and asks posters who they would choose/nominate, it is not about 'valid political arguement' .

As for Corbyn , ye gods , have any of you read what has been said of other politicians on other threads?

Threads go off at a tangent, it's what happens.

So which of these is about his work as party leader, and which presents a valid political argument Annie?

I think Cirbyn has a big problem , he gets shot if wife no 2 because she disobeyed him over choice of school.

He left his studies at a college because he disagreed with his tutors course

He invited the IRA to Westminster just weeks after the Brighton bombing, this was so insensitive .

Quite trisher. And I agree about the lack of any real political debate. These threads are becoming boring.

But I stand by my point about personal attacks, or rather snide comments, between posters. I've been the subject of them myself though not on this thread. I'm not a delicate little flower, I'm well used to personal abuse and also to strong debate both within family situations and outside of those. I just don't see a need to seek it out on a public forum.