Our Lord, J.C.

[Greyblades]

No one's going to answer my previous post?

Ok then.

He campaigns for the national rights of Venezuelans and Palestinians; but he opposes self-determination in Northern Ireland and the Falkland Islands

can we get a confirmation on this one?

[Idaho]

No one's going to answer my previous post?

Ok then.
can we get a confirmation on this one?

I don't imagine I agree with with Corbyn on many topics, however he at least talks like an adult. That all situations are complex and that compromise and dialogue are important. That you can't just have a single soundbite that then applies to every situation.

I think, fundamentally, he is in favour of peace, engagement, dialogue and compromise. He is not strident, he is not dogmatic. That doesn't really fit with the politics by soundbite/headline approach of our age. I am supportive of him just for that alone. It's time politics grew up. That it wasn't defined by the vested interests of media barons, who's desires are then badly implemented and expressed by tabloid headline writers.

[Greyblades]

I don't imagine I agree with with Corbyn on many topics, however he at least talks like an adult. That all situations are complex and that compromise and dialogue are important. That you can't just have a single soundbite that then applies to every situation.

I think, fundamentally, he is in favour of peace, engagement, dialogue and compromise. He is not strident, he is not dogmatic. That doesn't really fit with the politics by soundbite/headline approach of our age. I am supportive of him just for that alone. It's time politics grew up. That it wasn't defined by the vested interests of media barons, who's desires are then badly implemented and expressed by tabloid headline writers.

Given the choice I would rather have a duplicitous, lying media slave politician who might do what I think is the right thing over an independent straight talking and honest one that definitely wont.

I'm hoping he'll be a good opposition leader and try to keep the Tories worse proclivities in check, however if he's really such an idiot as to want to impose foreign rule over British citizens out of some delusion of fair compromise, let alone give up the ultimate defense of the realm over some hippy ideal, then I don't want him anywhere near a majority government.

But of course I am not so eager to take a biased source at face value, so I'll wait on that confirmation.

[Pannonian]

In the grand scheme of things I would rather have a duplicitous, lying media slave politician who might do what I think is the right thing over an independent straight talking and honest one that definitely wont.

In the mean time I'll wait on that confirmation.

If I had to choose between a principled government and a clever government, and the two were mutually exclusive, I'd choose the clever government every time. Politicians aren't there to be good and noble. They're there to (attempt to) govern the country well.