Anew government

I predict a vote of no confidence in Keith Starmer within a few months and Jeremy Corbyn replacing him as a true socialist prime minister. 

Corbyn replacing Starmer would be the death knell of Labour as a serious political party. I didn't vote for him as leader of the party in 2015, as I firmly believed he wasn't capable enough to do the job. I voted for Yvette Cooper instead. When he became leader I hoped against hope that he'd prove me wrong. I regarded him as an ineffectual but decent politician.  Over the course of time  he failed more and more to prove me wrong as to his leadership qualities. Despite that I voted Labour in both 2017 and 2019. It's his behaviour after being replaced as leader that has resulted in my thinking he's neither a good person or a good politician. Much of that centres round his  narcissistic refusal to denounce the atrocious behaviour of many of his most ardent supporters. That's not the behaviour of a decent person.

Being old enough to remember the Winter of Discontent and all the other problems caused by overmight unions, I dreaded the idea of a Corbyn government or more precisely one where the likes of John MacDonald pulling the strings. Some of what Corbyn wanted was great, but the way he wanted to go about it wasn't. I remember seeing MacDonald telling some interviewer that the elderly didn't need to worry about housing anymore as jeremy would build them a house! I thought what, with his own bare hands?

There's a grimness to their sort of socialism that I really don't like, having been involved in it and around it for much of my youth, I became very disillussioned with it and it all started to become more and more like Monty Pythons 3 Yorkshiremen sketch. The worse thing was the feeling that they were serious about wanting bleakness. I also think that they would of rolled back on womens rights in favour of "the working man", that's also something I remember from those years, the way that they wanted women to remain as housewives, how they didn't want women in their unions.

I agree with firemonkey about the antisemitism, Corbyn has never accepted it as an issue in the Labour party. The odd thing is that the antisemitic arguements I've heard from the left are the same ones that I've heard from the right.

I'm politically homeless, I don't support any party, in fact I think that parties are part of the problem with politics, which takes precedence, the constituents or the party?

I was a child during the winter of discontent and whilst it was sort of fun sitting by candle light and playing board games with my parents of an evening, I was aware of how hard it was for others. We were lucky in that we had a gas fire and cooker so we could have hot food and stay warm, but many others were not so lucky.

I remember the winter of discontent too. I was living with my father, when not in one of the psych wards of our local hospital.I was cocooned from the effects of it  due to my father  being reasonably well off. He was a Foreign  office inspector. He was the equivalent of an army brigadier.

I remember the winter of discontent too. I was living with my father, when not in one of the psych wards of our local hospital.I was cocooned from the effects of it  due to my father  being reasonably well off. He was a Foreign  office inspector. He was the equivalent of an army brigadier.

I was a child during the winter of discontent and whilst it was sort of fun sitting by candle light and playing board games with my parents of an evening, I was aware of how hard it was for others. We were lucky in that we had a gas fire and cooker so we could have hot food and stay warm, but many others were not so lucky.