‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn’ 🎵 🎶 and Zarah Sultana have confirmed the launch of their new political party today!

During a clear-out I discovered a Labour leaflet for the European Parliament Elections, during the time of Teresa May.
The slogan, graced with a photograph of Jeremy Corbyn, looking very presentable in a suit and tie, stated:
Labour will bring our country together.....this election is your chance to vote Labour and tell the Tories you are fed up with their divisive austerity policies and incompetent government.

Change of government; same situation.

Neil Kinnock said - ‘Farage Assistance Faction’

Grantanow

The Allotmenteers?

😂 love it!

The Allotmenteers?

I would replace affable with ineffectual.

I have said it was Arthur Scargill ,

Bob Crow did live in a council house in East London. He could have bought it with a very considerable discount and thus greatly increase his own wealth. Instead he chose to remain in it, paying rent, leaving it within public ownership. Quite understandably, very few council house renters refused the chance to buy their homes at a very significant discount. But it did mean that the property was then unavailable for any other would-be council renters.

I once heard Corbyn described as an ‘affable Trot’ 😁

Mind you, Arthur Scargill is no better. he took his union, the much shrunken National Union of Minors to court to make them pay the rent on his London flat in the Barbican (a very expensive and up market development). He lost. he didn't give a toss that paying the rent was reducing the much smaller union with much smaller revenues close to baankruptcy.

A few years later he tried to buy the flat, as it was council owned under the 'right to buy' legislation. He was successful, despite his main home being a detached house in Yorkshire valued well in excess of half a million.

One cannot but think of Napoleon, the leader of the pigs in Animal Farm.

Corbyn is a positive saint compared with Crow and Scargill, but an ineffectual saint.

sundowngirl

I think the Union Leader was the late Bob Crow. He earned £145, 000 and refused to move out of his council house
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bob-crow-i-have-no-moral-duty-to-move-out-of-council-house-despite-receiving-sixfigure-salary-as-rmt-boss-8964238.html

Yes, nasty bit of work was Bob Crow

I think the Union Leader was the late Bob Crow. He earned £145, 000 and refused to move out of his council house
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bob-crow-i-have-no-moral-duty-to-move-out-of-council-house-despite-receiving-sixfigure-salary-as-rmt-boss-8964238.html

The Union Leader was Arthur Scargill

I believe you’re correct there Monica.

Grantanow

I read somewhere that Corbyn lives in an ex-Council house. If so, did he use the right to buy created by Thatcher or did he acquire it after it had been privatised.

Seems rather hard to believe that he would want to benefit in that way.

Jeremy Corbyn does not live in an ex-council house. I once saw a photo of it and it was a standard Victorian terrace house and he bought it in 2007.

You may be confusing him with, I think, a union leader, who retired recently, cannot remember his nam,e who still lived in a rented council house in inner London, even though he earned a salary well over £100,000 and had done for years and was quite proud of the fact that he still paid rent for a council house, although he could well afford to buy his own home and by not doing so was stopping someone in need occupying it,

Did he live in the same house throughout his three marriages

I read somewhere that Corbyn lives in an ex-Council house. If so, did he use the right to buy created by Thatcher or did he acquire it after it had been privatised.

Seems rather hard to believe that he would want to benefit in that way.

Membership funds amount to very little in the world of politics. It is corporate funds, whether union or private equity, that fund the political parties.

The Corbyn Party is unlikely to attract the big hitters needed for funds.

Membership is funds, though, MOnica. Which have a key role to play in elections.

Maremia

Headline this morning from the London Economic, on Facebook,
'Corbyn party surpasses the Tory membership as it eyes up Farage.'

Membership isn't votes. When it comes to elections it is the vast majority of voters who have no party membership or affiliations that decide who governs us, not the number of party members.

Remember the heady giddy days when Corbyn was lauded as the saviour of the masses?😁
Didn’t go well did it? That’s cos voters vastly outnumber members of any political party.

Headline this morning from the London Economic, on Facebook,
'Corbyn party surpasses the Tory membership as it eyes up Farage.'

Thanks Casdon. That would explain it.

He’s that rare bird, an excellent constituency MP by all accounts Maremia, he fights the corner of his constituents very effectively.

I wish I knew. Perhaps he is a good constituency MP, or has a good office.