- Re: Corbyn’s “left” pretensions - this is just a nasty character assassination. Archived Message
Posted by dereklane
on November 21, 2019, 8:24 pm, in reply to "Re: Corbyn’s “left” pretensions - this is just a nasty character assassination. "
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This: "At one point Johnson, pushing the narrative that plays well among the Tories’ right-wing base that Corbyn and his shadow chancellor are dangerous “Marxists,” said, “Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party have actually said that they want to overthrow capitalism and destroy the basis for wealth creation in this country. I have to say that would be disastrous for this country.” Presented with this gift, Corbyn said that as prime minister he wanted only to go back to the situation as it was under the last years of the right-wing Blair/Brown Labour governments! Despite saying, “We are a society of billionaires and the very poor, neither of which are right,” he made clear there would be no serious moves against the super-rich under a government he led. " Before Blair even left Downing Street I, and millions of others were already being screwed by labour's progressive policies (progressive for capital). Saying he wants to reset the clock back to those times means we continued to be screwed, but ever so slightly slower til it catches up again. That's no kind of progression for the poor. It's just different bullshit with a slightly less shitty face telling us what's good for us. |