I Will Deal With It

Blimey, Annie, you really detest him, don't you?

So he is no different to many other MP's, not the blessed Jeremy , he who was bringing a kinder politics to the country, he who is praised as honest sbove all , is just another leader who wants to be PM at any price, what I have said for ages .

I have to say I think the impression created was that student debt would be written off. Then presumably someone said that we can't afford that and so a new strategy was suggested. He's not the only one to get caught by the media this way and won't be the last.

I think I heard somewhere that some students were so excited about Corbyn's promise that they forgot they had sent off a postal vote and voted again in person.
Some boasted about it on FB apparently.

www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2017/feb/18/post-brexit-uk-economy-demands-a-new-type-of-robin-hood-tax

He's found the magic money tree, though.
Sorry, forgot this thread wasn't about Corbyn.

Luckily for him, he didn't promise too anyway!

We all know it couldn't be done ( wiping out all debt.)
Luckily for him, he won't be called upon to do it.

From your link Ana
He told NME magazine in June he wanted to look at ways to reduce, ameliorate, lengthen the repayment period or "some other means of reducing that debt burden".

I think I must be missing something as well Mamacaz

Storm in a media teacup if you ask me.

He could have denied it on twitter in response to all the young voters who were calling him a legend for wiping out the debts ?

I'm playing Devil's advocate here, but would the same media that were delighting in mocking Corbyn even have bothered to report any denials he might have made?

But the media were saying he was going to wipe out the debts, he remained silent, your interoretstiin of it now is what he said today , just as well he didn't win because there would have been very disappointed voters, the ones who said on twitter he was to pay of the debts ,and praised him , he was a legend

I must be missing something because firstly, in the pre-election context of existing student debt, I interpret " i will deal with that" as meaning "I will look at what can be done about this", and more importantly, in that same pre- election context, I automatically assume it to mean "if / when I am elected." He wasn't, so end of, no?
Blimey, if we want to go into what the Tories promised at the last two elections that they couldn't or wouldn't deliver following re-election,we would be here all day!
But perhaps I am ignorant of some other piece of information?

True Devongirl, but when the papers headlines read .Corbyn to repay student loans he didn't say - no, I didn't say that , suppose he was too busy with the election

but much interest in the Corbyn promise 'I Will Deal With It ' and now his denial

It's not about tuition fees and Corbyn, Ana.
Annie said so.

Why don't you read what he actually said, durhamjen?

And do they Deal With It .jen ? I hope so

I think your DS and DIL may well be more reliable than Corbyn ever would prove to be djen if ever he got into power ( God forbid !)

Not about student fees?
Okay, if someone says I will deal with it, I expect them to deal with it whatever it is, when they are in a position to.

My son quite regularly deals with things for me when he says he will. He's kind like that.
Since I had my aortic dissection I can't do heavy work, like decorating which requires lifting furniture out of the way. I can't even move the settee to vac underneath it. Both he and his wife very kindly tell me to leave it, they will deal with it.

Surely there are plenty of approaches to dealing with fees other than writing them off which would come under the umbrella of 'I Will Deal With It', for example, increasing the threshold at which loans are paid back, putting a cap on (or even cancelling) interest, reducing the period after which the loan is written off...

Not about bringing in student fees though is it ?

It certainly was Roses, it worked for the Libs

So no major party has kept its promises on student fees.
Corbyn has never been in government before, but I'd be surprised if voting against student fees wasn't one of the times he rebelled, and rightly so.

No it is not about student fees , it is a question , what do you expect if someone says 'I Will Deal With It'

It was a cynical youth vote grabbing gambit ab and so obvious.