UK Politics Thread

[Montmorency]

Corbyn is to be fair to the man true to what he believes. He has had the good fortune that in his his entire life his principles have never really been tested - the closest was in the disastrous 1970s.

Gordon Brown was PM over 7 years ago - many if not most of Corbyn's supporters were in their early teenage years at that point and probably had little interest in politics. Such "minor" points as him selling UK's gold when almost at a historically low level whilst chancellor and his boasts to break the boom and bust cycle appear to be forgotten.

So he is another "fantastic" Labour ex-PM (who was mostly against the eeeevil Tony Blair) anointing the shadow leader.

Rather than focusing on the extremely difficult / complex global macroeconomics and redistribution from the wealthy western countries to the poorer ones which looks like a trend that is going to be extremely difficult to arrest, or the distorted global system of tax avoidance and how to solve it which would be extremely difficult to solve he avoids the "how" and just focuses on "aspirations". After all, the way to his solutions are extremely difficult if not impossible.

From what I read the Labour Manifesto details an agenda and its policy implementation, and claims to be budget-balanced.

Here's what it says about tax avoidance:

We will take on the social scourge of tax avoidance through our Tax Transparency and Enforcement Programme, and close down tax loopholes.

The good, well paid jobs appear to only be of importance to UK workers - it is almost as if his Socialism has a strong National flavour... National Socialism.

Is this a reference to something specific, or is it a complaint that Labour doesn't have a comprehensive plan for the world order?

Corbyn is a believer. He is an idealist. He would destroy the UK without remorse since he believes he would make something better from its ashes. Merely that he is prepared to go down with the ship doesn't make me like him any more for steering it towards the iceberg.

How do you come by this assessment of his policy proposals?

Also, I wonder if a measure of idealism isn't pragmatic. Why vote for a party that doesn't seem to want to accomplish anything?

They key difference is that Norway has a truly vast Sovereign wealth fund that could weather almost any storm. The UK borrows money monthly. When you need to borrow money off people, what they think is rather important.

So the UK is already sinking and cannot survive in the long-term? And what are your choices:

1. Accelerate the trend and accept peonage.
2. Alter the logic of the framework.