RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn?
September 14, 2015 at 6:21 am
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2015 at 6:30 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(September 14, 2015 at 5:49 am)Pandæmonium Wrote: I'm just interested really. People keep saying "re-invigorate politics" or "kick out the Tories", but none of those things are actual good reasons to vote for someone unless they have some substance to back it up. Here are some of things that apparently he wants to implement, some of which I agree with, most of which I don't:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34209478
Most of those I agree with, except joint ownership of the Falklands.
Not sure about opening deep coal mines compared to fracking. We should be moving away from coal, although the coal mines were closed down prematurely and not all of them can be opened due to flooding. New technology will allow them to mined more efficiently though.
High property prices leading to closure of pubs in London is just a symptom of a larger problem. The problem is high house prices. Why worry about pubs when it is more important to worry about essential workers such as nurses, teachers and shop keepers not being able to live in London? Although this ties with his point about introducing rent controls which will in turn help cap the rise in house prices.
HS2 is seen outside as London as being built purely for the sake of maintaining high house prices in London and keeping the MPs with their own property portfolios rich. Something we cannot afford if we're at the stage where we have to reduce benefits to disabled people to the extent where we are literally killing them off. HS2 would make sense if the whole of Britain was not clustered around London but that's an entirely different reality.
I am unsure about quantitative easing but his proposal is certainly better than what New Labour did. They basically bailed out the banks. None of that money touched the economy. We collectively took on the bank's debts from their dodgy practises and allowed them to continue and did not reduce the risk of deflation. This also maintained high house prices by stopping a crash. The banks should have been allowed to go under and the quantitative easing used to bail out the savers instead. Or QE could have been used to promote science and engineering which would have been an investment in our future. Paying off the credit cards of bankers so they can go out and live beyond their means again was absolutely not the right way to go.
Absolutely get rid of Trident.
More allotments are good. We live in a just-in-time society which is increasingly fragile to any form of disruption, and we can be absolutely sure that disruptions will happen sooner or later. Whether it's a flu pandemic, extreme weather from climate change, geopolitical crises cutting off our energy supplies etc. There should be more living space for everyone in fact, more parks etc. Every square inch is being built on in the south and quality of life is suffering as a result.
And it's good to see someone finally mention PFI. That's something hideous that New Labour brought in and saddled us with far more debt than we should have had. Although New Labour brought in PFI and QE solely to bail out the banks, the Tories are continuing with it.
