On 22/07/16 22:37, John Rumm wrote:
On 22/07/2016 11:21, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Yep, Massive increase in membership and funds and soon to be an
overwhelming vote of confidence in the leader. Clearly a party in it's
death throes.


It would be if the people who joined were not there to destroy the
party.

They aren't labour voters. All over what you would call 'the Right'
people are coughing up £25 to make sure Corbyn stays, because that will
destroy Labour.

You could always attend a meeting where Corbyn is speaking and judge the
caliber of his supporters there. You might learn something for once.


I do knows some of them. They are very sweet, and very naive.

The question is then, how many grass roots labour people are there left
who still go in for things like nationalisation, unilateral disarmament,
state control, high taxes etc?

(e.g. all the kind of stuff that featured heavily in Michael Foot's 1982
manifesto)


Youu remember when you were a student and you coulsn't believe no one
had thought of getting rid of wars before?

And then you grew up and realised that they had, but there isn't a
practical way of doing it.

They are hardline lefyt****s, or students.



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