Winegums wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2019 3:11 am
Health - fully supports NHS. Wants greater investment in NHS, removal of obstructions such as internal market, PFI.
Housing - supports significant council house building projects. Supports legislation limiting # of homes anyone can own (no more professional landlords). Supports better legislation protecting tenants
Jobs - Wants to improve employee rights and strengthen trade unionism
Education - close gap between wealthy and poor. End creeping privatisation of schooling
Justice - ensure timely access to legal system and justice for the accused and victims. Have community policing fully integrated to communities. Destroy the London Met and salt the earth so that nothing can ever grow there again.
Defense - Stop Western imperialism.
I'm for all of those things (though a question mark over the last one - stopping Western imperialism isn't synonymous with defence. You can stop needless adventures for oil without giving Putin free rein to do what the fuck he wants, for example).
Thus, I'm left wing by any reasonable definition of left wing - something I'm sure Winegums would find laughable, but then we're all well versed on how the only people Corbyn fans consider 'proper' leftwingers are themselves. But regardless I also think Corbyn is awful and wouldn't deliver a lot of these even if in power as he'd be too distracted by (for want of a better phrase) 'socialist vanity projects' that chew up time and energy and capital. For example renationalisation of everything, even if it's a sector doing well.
It's that simplistic black-and-white absolutism that still sees him clinging to lexit, because the EU is vaguely capitalist and so *must* be the worse option. It's incomprehensible it couldn't be. It's also what's doing for him on antisemitism - Israel is bad, therefore all criticism *must* be allowed, even if it's clumsy or badly worded, and the most generous, optimistic take *must* be made every time because these people just want a free Palestine, so how could they *possibly* be bigoted? How could Jeremy be a bad person, look at all these good things he has done? And so on.
I also think there are plenty of examples of his behaviour matching Johnson in awfulness, in no small part due to this absolutism. Sure, he protested against apartheid (and through his arrogance and need to be seen doing 'the right thing', famously made things worse, of course:
But he also turned a blind eye to atrocities if his chum in Moscow was involved (
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comme ... pocritical) because it was against the hated USA, so how could he be wrong?
So sure, you could make a sound case he's not as big a dangerous, arrogant wanker as Johnson - but he's still a dangerous, arrogant wanker, and not fit to be PM.