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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A Labour leader needs to appeal to more than simply the hard line left crowd in the Labour party. Corbyn was never electable outside of North London and a handful of university campuses. Not in any serious way at least. That’s why he got battered in both elections he contested.

I was enthusiastic to see Corbyn in power but then it came to the general election and they kept announcing one ambitious thing after the next. I was largely in favour of them but I was still thinking "what are you playing at?" as they'd have cost a fortune and there was no evidence of where all the money would come from. And if I thought that, it's no wonder other people were scared off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The money would have come from Old McDonnell's farm of course! Selling eggs from the community chicken Co-op that is fed from grinding up the bones of the rich. Obviously 🙄...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Those do sound like mighty fine eggs.