Jeremy Corbyn receives Unison's backing for Labour leadership

[Eirikur]

We tories are very happy labour is unable to elect a capable leader for many years now first Brown, then Millipede and now Corbyn (hopefully)

[MicrosoftBob]

WHS

and by the next election four years' worth of "keep things as they are" old timers will have fallen off the end of the conveyor belt, to be replaced at the other end by at least the same number of increasingly disillusioned and irate first time voters.

Doesn't that depend on nobody else aging during those four years, how are you going to stop people turning into old timers ????

[OwlHoot]

I think it's interesting that we are now seeing how the generations that had to leave Uni with massive debts and practically no hope affording their own home, are starting to influence the political landscape. As usual the winners in any economic system will vote for things to stay as they are, however the number of 'losers' is starting to grow and their political influence will correspondingly increase. There is still a widespread feeling across the country that the fallout from the financial crises has fallen disproportionally on the lower paid and young. Corbyn's candidacy is feeding into that, just as the SNP have done in Scotland. Interesting times ahead that's for sure

Yup, been saying it for years.

edit: Oh, as quoted in the previous post I see

Doesn't that depend on nobody else aging during those four years, how are you going to stop people turning into old timers ????

The newer old timers are that much more disilllusioned about how things are for them, and the memory of the last left wing Labour government in the 70s is fainter or non-existent to an ever larger proportion of voters.

[stek]

Let's hope Corbyn wins, it will mean the largest defeat in history in the next general elections for labour

Yeah like Cameron will get a landslide lol!!

[DimPrawn]

Bodies unburied for weeks, streets piled high with rubbish.

Sunny Dave returning from the Caribbean with a nice tan.

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FTFY

We'll see the bodies thing again when the peace lovers in the UK do the "lone wolf" thing enmasse. Rubbish piling high when the next ridiculous set of EU recycling laws arrive.