Jeremy Corbyn's impact on the current Haringey regime: what should we expect?

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Permalink Reply by Neil on September 18, 2015 at 19:01

Corbyn's temporary leadership of the Labour Party will demonstrate how inept and unpopular those on the Left are. The national press are exposing his flawed policies and regular U turns on a daily basis. 

After Corbyn's downfall in a few months, a moderate leader will rise and return the public's respect and support for a good, moderate Labour opposition party. 

The economy is growing with a good rise in real wages and record employment. Inflation is almost zero and interest rates beautifully low. The Conservatives are here to stay for ten years. 

There is no evidence that the public yearns for the ideas put forward by Corbyn and John McDonnell, his shadow Chancellor. Therefore, the moderate and sensible local Labour council leadership has nothing to fear from the Left wingers and will be untainted by their embarrassing failure.

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Permalink Reply by Philip on September 18, 2015 at 20:14

Corbyn is, in fact, a moderate. Ending austerity, bringing railways back into public hands, endind PFI and making the NHS fully public are all reasonable goals. He just wants to reverse the dreadful legacy of Thatcher and the careerist undemocratic gangster culture of the Labour Party. He has been reviled in the media because he presents an alternative voice, while scant attention has been paid to empoverishment of the most needy and the sabre rattling of Cameron.

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Permalink Reply by Neil on September 18, 2015 at 20:35

Mrs Thatcher left a great legacy which has been copied around the world. Russia and China have been successful with their own version of privatising stagnant state industries. Hundreds of millions of people are better off thanks to free market economies and private enterprise.

One senator in the USA is campaigning to have the great Iron Lady's image printed on dollar bills. Good luck to him. Maggie Rules! 

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Permalink Reply by Andy H on September 20, 2015 at 5:25

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha *wipes tears from eyes* ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Owwww my sides hurt from laughing... Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

Thank you so much - I haven't read anything so funny in years!

You poor poor deluded man!

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on September 18, 2015 at 22:14

Many thanks, Neil O'Shea - former Haringey Tory councillor and more recently Tory candidate - for giving us your objective, measured, and factual analysis and scientific predictions. 

Can I assume these are based on  your thorough and painstaking research of those impeccable sources, the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Sun journals of record?

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Permalink Reply by David Barry on September 20, 2015 at 17:56

An interesting, and relevant, blog posting here.

Why did labour loose?

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Permalink Reply by Narendra Makanji on September 20, 2015 at 6:46

Yesterday (Saturday) Tottenham Labour tweeted:

The UKLabour Party have had an astonishing 158 new members from Tottenham since @jeremycorbyn became Leader.

Probably a similar increase with the Hornsey & Wood Green Party.

Also preparations are underway for next May and there was a high profile presence in the Turnpike Lane area of Sadiq Khan, the Mayoral candidate and Joanne McCartney, the Assembly candidate.

So issues of transport,housing and (youth) employment will probably dominate until May next year.Most of the testing of these policies will be internal, as I do not detect any stirring from Tory,LibDem or TUSC parties locally.

Issues,such as arrival of refugees,the Syria war, and European Union, could emerge as National debates with an impact on local politics. 

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