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Oh, Jeremy Corbyn

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It doesn't matter that he has a decades long record of opposing Apartheid and fighting for human rights all over the UK and the globe, it was an easy smear. And Labour in the UK does have an anti-semitism problem, Jezza was forced to apologize for it on his own party's behalf, it was just easy to pin it on the unlikable socialist and facts be damned.
 
Colonel Angus said:
Good points above. The media just never gives the left a fair shake.

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You do realize that the Washington Post and New York Times both have opinion columnists that range from right wing to left wing?
 
TownieDeac said:



GET BETTER AT MEDIA, LEFITSTS

christ almighty stop blaming losses on the opponents not following the rules all the time
 
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Corbyn's problems go well beyond the anti-Semitism issue. The guy has willingly associated himself with Latin American strongmen and IRA murderers for years. I'm sure there's probably some hand-waving excuse out there in Labour-leftist land about how all that was taken out of context, but those actions have consequences and a -40 approval rating can't be explained by alleged imbalanced reporting.
 
Actually,,,,,those South American strongmen and IRA revolutionaries,,,,,,were good
 
yeah guys, it's bad to blow up civvies with drones but OK with car bombs if it's for the right cause.
 
good/bad is too simple

many of the South American strongmen came to power in the face of/in spite of US intervention on behalf of neoliberal candidates offering favorable trade arrangements
 
After seeing this result, I am as resigned to 4 more years of Trump as I have ever been. I was hoping that the UK were better than us, but clearly this nationalistic wave of ignorance and bigotry has infected the entire world. I am checking out of politics for a while, this is just depressing. See you when the Democrats are done eating themselves.
 
AsesinoDeTortugas said:
After seeing this result, I am as resigned to 4 more years of Trump as I have ever been. I was hoping that the UK were better than us, but clearly this nationalistic wave of ignorance and bigotry has infected the entire world. I am checking out of politics for a while, this is just depressing. See you when the Democrats are done eating themselves.
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Murdoch plus liberals who prioritize their bank account make tough opponents.
 
My understanding is that he hasn't immediately resigned from leadership, but simply indicated he wouldn't lead labour in the next election, whenever that is. Crazy he hasn't immediately resigned if that's true.
 
The lesson is liberals shouldn’t nominate particularly unlikeable people to lead their parties. Same lesson we should have learned from 2016.
 
Apparently Corbyn was -40 in likability polls. Johnson was around -11 by comparison. LOL -40. Britain is going to suffer through a no deal brexit - but Labour evidently was badly in need of cleansing.
 
AsesinoDeTortugas said:
After seeing this result, I am as resigned to 4 more years of Trump as I have ever been. I was hoping that the UK were better than us, but clearly this nationalistic wave of ignorance and bigotry has infected the entire world. I am checking out of politics for a while, this is just depressing. See you when the Democrats are done eating themselves.
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I don't think this result in Britain means anything for the 2020 US election. There are huge differences in the political situations, economies, and historic moments in the two countries. As PH points out, leadership is important. The Dems have got to put someone good at the top of the ticket. And pretty much any of the current Dem frontrunners are light years more popular in American than Corbyn is in Britain, so we're already well ahead of the game on that score.
 
I don't think the Dem field is particularly strong. That's the biggest problem we face in unseating Trump. We're also not likely to nominate anyone near as loathed as Corbyn or Clinton (from 2016).
 
TownieDeac said:
Not yet. More they like to say he's got problems with women and minorities, his record notwithstanding.

Though in both the US and UK, Trump and Boris can outright say "You dumb money grubbing Jews have to vote for me! Who else are you going to vote for, the people who think Israel shouldn't exist?" and media covers it with a smirking tsk tsk. But if Ilhan Omar or AOC or Jezza or Bernie or anyone else expresses support for BDS or questions Israel in the slightest, the anti-semitism label gets slapped so hard and so fast.
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FIFY
 
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