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Corbyn's long game - driving journalists crazy- and you?

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jura2 Mon 18-Mar-19 11:55:08

Certainly me- same with his close acolytes- never ever answering a direct question:

news.sky.com/video/share-11668308?fbclid=IwAR3pTX4HLh5lBMtW5RcJlHzr1lb9_vbZfvib1NDK2Oa5CGxy-8mO_ZxgyI0

What about you? He is still going on about being able to quickly negotiate a Norway style deal without any of the strings and responsibilities attached.

maryeliza54 Wed 20-Mar-19 23:03:38

Why is no one calling out the PM for inviting him ffs? She invited CU - why?

Jalima1108 Wed 20-Mar-19 23:03:15

He is still going on about being able to quickly negotiate a Norway style deal without any of the strings and responsibilities attached.
Anyone who does not have the responsibility to try to do the deal can say anything they like about what they think they could do.

He lives in cloud cuckoo land jura and his actions this evening were just childish.
Well, perhaps not, my DGC are more mature than that.

The LP and the country deserve a better Leader of the Opposition.

maryeliza54 Wed 20-Mar-19 23:02:16

If TM cared about the country she would not have included TIG but she doesn’t care

GillT57 Wed 20-Mar-19 23:01:53

Corbyn refusing to attend the cross party meeting tonight because Chukka Amuna was going to be there was childish and pathetic and illustrates clearly that he is not putting the interests of members of the Labour Party or of the general electorate first. Disgraceful behaviour and he needs to be called out on it.

maryeliza54 Wed 20-Mar-19 23:01:02

TIG is not a political party TIG is not a political party

Jalima1108 Wed 20-Mar-19 22:59:41

It's obvious that he just doesn't know what he's doing.
Promoted way beyond his competence. I feel sorry for the more able Labour MPs.

I agree and have always said this. His petulance this evening means he is putting his own feelings before the good of the country.
Of course he could not do any better because he would always be marching off in a strop.

He is just an embarrassment.

Eloethan Wed 20-Mar-19 22:55:01

She was hopeless in the Home Office and has proved to be totally ineffective in guiding and overseeing the Brexit negotiations. I didn't really expect anything different from her but now it is getting extremely worrying and I, I'm sure like many people, just don't know what is the right thing to do now.

NfkDumpling Wed 20-Mar-19 22:52:32

Sooo .... Does Mr Corbyn want to leave the EU?

If he was this wishy-washy when he talked with them, I bet he has no idea what he may or may not get from them and they’re still wondering what the hell he wanted apart from platitudes.

maryeliza54 Wed 20-Mar-19 22:51:09

What part of the TIG group is not a political party do people not understand? Not a political party - who funds them? Who cares? We are fucked as a country, completely fucked

maryeliza54 Wed 20-Mar-19 22:49:23

Really ab really ? She is the fucking PM and she is taking us to hell in a handcart. She is the fucking PM - she chose to be the PM. She was a racist HS - she has no idea what normal life is like. She has never had to worry about money, access to health cars, poor education for her SEN child, inadequate social care for her parents, paying her mortgage, her fuel bills. She has no idea about anything at all. No idea at all.

EllanVannin Wed 20-Mar-19 22:47:38

All Corbyn's been doing is criticising TM from start to finish. There's no substance in whatever he has to say, his main aim to create a division between all parties including his own. His past militant lifestyle is coming through for all to see.

He'd walked out of a meeting tonight because Chuka Umunna had been invited. Is it because Chuka could run rings around him ? Of course it is !

Anniebach Wed 20-Mar-19 22:37:36

Corbyn Can outdo May on ills, evils and ineptitude ,

MaizieD Wed 20-Mar-19 22:34:44

I don't think May is serving her country at all. She's serving the tory party and her own xenophobia. She's desperate to keep the tory party together, as was Cammeron when he came up with his wizard wheeze of holding a really badly thought out referendum. Our country is being torn apart for the sake of tory unity.

I actually suspect that Corbyn has got something kind of agreed in principle with the EU. He had a few meetings with them. I think that his negotiating stance would have been more consensual and more successful. Though I know I shall get flamed for saying this!

May went at it like a bull in a china shop, mistaking aggression for firmness. Painted herself into a corner with all those red lines and can't get herself out of it.

maryeliza54 Wed 20-Mar-19 22:28:32

TIG is NOT a political party FFS - we don’t even know where they are getting their funding frim. TM is a mad goady fucker

rosamund132 Wed 20-Mar-19 22:27:42

Please tell your MP how you want them to vote. I want to know the vote reflects the British People and not a political elite who are refusing to accept the fact that this is the EU's Deal with the UK and nothing can be changed. Has your MP asked you your opinion? No? Then TELL THEM !

rosamund132 Wed 20-Mar-19 22:24:18

The difference between Corbyn and May is that May is serving her country and Corbyn is serving himself. EU leaders have said time and again he is deluded if he thinks he can negotiate a different Deal. This is the EU Deal; not just Theresa May's and it must be accepted, voted for and the UK allowed to get on with everything else that is being sidelined.

GillT57 Wed 20-Mar-19 22:22:40

He has been handed election victory on a plate, the current conservative administration is eating itself and still he cannot get it right. I am angrier with him than I am with Teresa May, he is weak and ineffectual and is not an effective opposition. He has sat on the Brexit fence for so long he must have splinters in his arse. What a let down he is.

varian Wed 20-Mar-19 22:11:41

It seems that Theres May invited the leaders of all the opposition parties to a meeting tonight and Corbyn went off in a strop because Chukka Omunna was there.

eazybee Mon 18-Mar-19 15:51:17

Theresa May's ills, evils and complete ineptitude still do not make Corbyn appear as an alternative leader.
Driving journalists crazy?
Now at last I understand the point of him.

trisher Mon 18-Mar-19 15:37:58

So we have a government whose proposals even cabinet ministers are voting against, that the attorney general evidently doesn't speak to, that is led by a woman who seems to be imitating her namesake, that has suffered the biggest defeat in the history of parliament and you want to criticise Corbyn!!!!

Anja Mon 18-Mar-19 15:22:35

Whereas the Blesséd Theresa May.........?

jura2 Mon 18-Mar-19 14:40:09

As in this one - love the 'park the unicorns' bit:

youtu.be/YBfTdHK4-zw

jura2 Mon 18-Mar-19 14:37:56

not at all- I totally understood and shared here frustration- which was shown to all sides. She expressed the massive annoyance so many of us feel- again, on all sides.

maryeliza54 Mon 18-Mar-19 14:32:58

EM’s behaviour was disgraceful and unprofessional

Anniebach Mon 18-Mar-19 14:18:57

He is only concerned with a general election ,doesn’t want to anger remainers or leavers, sits in the fence trying the impossible, pleasing all of the people all of the time .