Corbyn and the Monarchy and Armed Forces.

I found mine rather stifling and missed mater and pater dreadfully. But at least I was allowed to take my horse with me

Not that it matters.....

Hope you had a tuck box.

rosesarered Nobody has to "accept" anything just because you say it. It is your opinion, and some people feel differently.

Haha! Not only in my opinion I think you will find. Quite a lot if people think it.

Are they just slightly left then, or left-ish perhaps ?

Even Labour MP's call them far left........are posters who support them ashamed of the label?

If your left-right axis goes from Corbyn to May, they could be classed as far left. If however your axis goes all the way across the spectrum from Stalin to Hitler, they are only just left of centre.
It's all relative!

Quite a lot if people think it.

If 95% of people thought the world was flat it wouldn't make it any less globular.

Someone I met the other day mentioned that he thought that Corbyn is very similar to Trump - both appealing to the disaffected, the 'not managing at all' people in society and he thought that one was far right, the other far left and they have met somewhere on the circle of political belief.

Well yyg let us stick with the spectrum we have here in the UK shall we, May to Corbyn !

I suppose that some posters wish Corbyn and McDonnell were not called far left, as they support them and choose not to think of themselves in the same way.
So they deny the fact.Corbyn and McDonnell couldn't really be any further left in the Labour Party.I have no beef with anyone who supports them, but be honest with yourselves and us on GN.They are the extreme left of the Labour Party!

Talk about flogging a dead horse

Well, that's the poor beast's last flogging....he can go out to pasture now.?

My grandfather was a communist, he thought all industry should be nationalised, and believed Labour's post war nationalisation would fail because they didn't nationalise the banks (he would have). He would have abolished the House of Lords and removed the Queen. He could sing the Red Flag all the way through.His politics grew out of the depression and working on the docks when men had to stand at the gates waiting for work. He would definitely have described himself as Far Left. (and proud of it!) There's no one far-left in politics now.

I went to a top private school and lived in a seven bedroomed house!
Does that mean I can't be socialist?
Does that mean I have to be more right wing than you, daphne?
Please help. I'm feeling very mixed up.

trisher
I wonder how the poor people of Venezuela feel about the glorious revolution?
And, the country is sitting on the biggest oil reserves in the world, couldn't make it up, could you.
Have you ever been to Russia and seen how ordinary folk live. It's not all St Pertersburg or the hideously expensive shops in Moscow.

It would have been interesting having discussions with your grandad, trisher. Did you learn a lot from him?

Do you drink champagne as well djen

Gosh, a 7 bedroomed house, you could easily hide from mum and dad!

dj you told everbody that you had to have free school meals as a child.

No, and I can't imagine Corbyn drank champagne either.
We quite often had lodgers from different countries, though. I remember one always had a large glass jar of cashew nuts under his bed, and he'd share them with us. Very exotic in the fifties.

My bedroom was in the attic and I was mostly scared to go to bed.

Hope you had a tuck box.
with lashings of hard-boiled eggs and sandwiches in a tin with ginger beer to drink!

I still like ginger beer.

I do like a drop of champers myself, but only if given as a present

Midnight feasts? Pillow fights?

I did have free school meals. Living in a big house didn't mean you were rich.