The BBC 1 'Prime Minister' debate

[MrGongGong]

After the last English civil war and with continued fear of the power of Rome they turned to the Dutch for governance - maybe yet again?

Maybe
Though i'm sure we might be able to borrow the NZ Prime Minister for a couple of months :daff2:

[eighthobstruction]

After the last English civil war and with continued fear of the power of Rome they turned to the Dutch for governance - maybe yet again?

....good idea....

[Padraig]

....good idea....

Crikey!

[Richard Barrett]

i'm sure we might be able to borrow the NZ Prime Minister for a couple of months

Yes, the Corbyn of the Southern Hemisphere, good idea.

[MrGongGong]

Yes, the Corbyn of the Southern Hemisphere, good idea.

Hardly Corbyn
I think she has real empathy rather than a stubborn adherence to a set of beliefs that will result in greater hardship for the least well off in society.

[Tony Halstead]

Hardly Corbyn
I think she has real empathy rather than a stubborn adherence to a set of beliefs that will result in greater hardship for the least well off in society.

[Joseph K]

Hardly Corbyn
I think she has real empathy rather than a stubborn adherence to a set of beliefs that will result in greater hardship for the least well off in society.

Like raising the minimum wage and free child care?

[Dave2002]

You mean to say you haven't come across Yaffle ?
Where on earth have you been ?

You know that I'm not on the same planet ... er, Internet .... or so you keep telling me!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn7vqhQ9oHw

[MrGongGong]

Like raising the minimum wage and free child care?

No

[Richard Barrett]

Like raising the minimum wage and free child care?

I think MrGG is afflicted by stubborn adherence to a set of beliefs about Jeremy Corbyn.

[LMcD]

I think MrGG is afflicted by stubborn adherence to a set of beliefs about Jeremy Corbyn.

I hope Mr Hunt is chosen as Tory leader, as we could then enjoy the spectacle of TV election debates in which presenters and reporters struggle to remember which Jeremy has said what, and anybody who says 'I agree with Jeremy' can do so without fear of being contradicted.

[french frank]

Like raising the minimum wage and free child care?

Policies are very easy to formulate and Mr Corbyn has never had to implement any of them. Prediction: he will find it harder than he (or you?) think it is. As I see it, the main problem with his overall policy aims is that they are not balanced against reality - even local councils have to balance their budgets. But, poof! problem solved.

Life in government isn't that simple. Current annual interest on the national debt is close to £50bn. [Hint: that doesn't mean there's £50bn available to improve public services.]

[cloughie]

I hope Mr Hunt is chosen as Tory leader, as we could then enjoy the spectacle of TV election debates in which presenters and reporters struggle to remember which Jeremy has said what, and anybody who says 'I agree with Jeremy' can do so without fear of being contradicted.

A new form of Jeremanderin? Well Mrs Hunt is Chinese, or is she Japanese?

[Joseph K]

Policies are very easy to formulate and Mr Corbyn has never had to implement any of them. Prediction: he will find it harder than he (or you?) think it is. As I see it, the main problem with his overall policy aims is that they are not balanced against reality - even local councils have to balance their budgets. But, poof! problem solved.

Life in government isn't that simple. Current annual interest on the national debt is close to £50bn. [Hint: that doesn't mean there's £50bn available to improve public services.]

So - we should believe that:

austerity = difficult, complex adult decision based in reality

anti-austerity = simple-minded and childishly naïve

And TINA... (There Is No Alternative)?

[MrGongGong]

I think MrGG is afflicted by stubborn adherence to a set of beliefs about Jeremy Corbyn.

Not at all
I happen to think that rasing the minimum wage and support for child care are good ideas
BUT throwing away our right to travel and work in the rest of the EU along with walking away from our collaborations in Science, Culture and Education is a terrible idea.
It's also interesting to see that most of the places I work where mr Corbyn appears to have concern for have this symbol on the signs outside community centres, schools, libraries and other public facilities



i'm sure in the Socialist Unicorn Farming paradise that MrC believes in we will continue to support these things
BUT I really don't trust the Labour party to be able to do anything of the sort

Making the likes of JRM richer isn't going to help the folks in Middlesborough I was working with earlier in the year, neither is bulding a huge factory to destroy more of the planet....