Corbyn's references to terrorism: as well as saying oh, how terrible is it, he said it is "thriving in a world our governments have helped to shape" - all our own fault then.
His 'policy' on North Korea seems to be 'have a chat with them'. I expect Kim Jong Un's their first question will be "when are you going to implement your wise socialist policy of disarmament?"

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We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

One thing he said yesterday was that 2017 was the year that politics finally caught up with the 2008 crash.

We spent £500 billion bailing out the banks, a political decision which we are still paying for with austerity, with the greatest real wage decline of any major European nation aside from Greece, with drastic cuts to our schools, hospitals and social services.

If we have another crash, which is looking increasingly likely, do you think we should spend another £500 billion of taxes on a non-repayable bailout, or should we demand a percentage of that money back from the tax avoiders and start spending it on schools for our kids, hospitals for our parents and social and community services which encourage integration and do something to stop the ethnic divides in our cities?

Personally, I think that sort of money will do more to stop the ills of our migrant policy than any amount we spend on stronger borders, counter terrorism or exportation services.

If punk ever happened I'd be preaching the law, instead of listenin to Lydon lecture BBC4

Brown and Darling had no option but to bail out the banks regardless of the politics.

But using the banks as an instrument of the state as the government is doing has serious long term repercussions for all of us not just immigrants.

Millions would've been made homeless, destitute and impoverished.

But had we had a government who had given a conditional bailout, legislating for future profits of the bank to be transferred back to the state, enforced stronger regulation on predatory risky loaning and speculation, we wouldn't now be staring down the barrel of global austerity, another potentially fatal crash and the social divisions, inequality and wage depression we have.

Why is it that before 2008, fascist and ultra-nationalist parties across Europe were condemned to the fringes, but now they are leading countries like Hungary, inches from power in France and Greece, and controlling centre-right political discourse in the UK, Germany and elsewhere?

I would really like someone on the right to answer that.

If punk ever happened I'd be preaching the law, instead of listenin to Lydon lecture BBC4

Largely due to the disastrous policies of the EU.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

I agree with a lot of that (surprisingly) however, much like with the big companies that avoid paying the tax they should be paying i.e. Costa Google etc, if you start to penalise the big banks that are based here, they will just move thier operation elsewhere, a "take my ball home" mentality if you will.

So whilst it might be justified, and sound really good and go down a bundle with Momentum members (how is Gusset ) the reality is utterly different and could lead to much bigger depression than the one the banks initially they caused.

With regards to Corbyns speech, the last time I heard that much piss and wind, was when SP was interviewed on the HOL.

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"