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A funny thing happened in my local bank… Earlier today I was standing in line waiting for a teller in my local bank, when some chap who was clearly a few cards short of a full deck started complaining at the top of his voice:
“This is how a run on a bank starts! People see an unusual number of customers waiting line and become alarmed, and the next thing you know, it becomes a national crisis with banks collapsing!”
The rather well dressed fellow standing behind me immediately quipped:
“With a grasp of finance and human nature like that, this gentleman is clearly a contender for the Corbyn Shadow Cabinet.”
A great many people laughed. Made my day.
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Corbyn is a Marxist Jesuit and like any Jesuit is capable of sacrificing countless innocents to a cause – even those innocents of his own persuasion.
Many in the Labour Party already know that Corbyn thinks great and noble ends justify bloody and horrific means and they have first-hand experience of the warm, reassuring smile followed by the chill of a swift stiletto between their ribs.
Did you see Corbyn’s two-and-a-half-minutes’ death-stare blanking the reporter from Sky News last night? – if only looks could kill!
I expect others in the Labour Party are about to learn the true meaning of Corbyn’s alleged “integrity” – “the conscious holding fast to an illusion and compulsorily incorporating it as the basis of culture.”
This is the kind of “integrity” that drove Pol Pot to kill 3 million people in the name of “equality.”
Will Middle England fall for it?
Not a chance – too much human capital i.e. we are just too smart.
I am inclined to agree, and the chap behind me was pure ‘Middle England’.
Middle England
A sector of the demographic that has become quite large since Corbyn’s policies were last used in government.
It’s still funny.
And the initial speaker was still correct.
No, I really do think it takes a great deal more than that to start a run on a bank these days.
I recorded This Morning to hear the reaction of a “Mr. Average Brit” – Philip Schofield.
He was both astonished and outraged to learn from Sky News that Corbyn is so insane that he actually struggles to say the word “profit.”
I emigrated to New Zaland and I have been “watching from afar” as they say. I’m undecided how it will pan out.
On the one hand, Corbyn is a dyed red in the wool communist (OK, we can dicker about the difference between a Marxist, Leninist, Maoist, Trotskist or Stalinist but that is like arguing the difference between dogshit from a Yorkshire Terrier and a Great Dane) so his policies will be the same as Foot and MAY lead to the same result that he produced and Winters of Discontent etc. He and Ken Mcluskey are already talking about civil unrest via strikes and shutting down essential services to bring down the Government – same as The Winter of Discontent and Scargill – so I’d be stocking up on bog paper, soap and other essentials a la Venezuela. So no one with enough sense to pour piss out of a boot would vote for him.
(Try this link
http://www.thepowerhour.com/news/items_disappearfirst.htm)
On the other hand, there are so many illegals and “refugees” in the country and as he has stated he welcomes immigration etc. so they are unlikely to vote Tory. They will naturally vote for more welfare and nore of their tribe to come to the UK. It is an invasion and although they aren’t carrying guns (YET!) they are imposing their “culture” on the UK and transforming it into the same shithole that they came from.
I’ve read plenty of political analysis and a recurring theme is that only about 50,000 people swing a general election. Look at the North East – If I was the Conservative leader I would not bother spending time or cash on a representative there (or even field a candidate). It is pointless as Labour ALWAYS wins. (I would genuinely like to see the other political parties do this and see the reaction when the voters are faced with a communist ballot paper – you can vote Labour, Labour or Labour).
For vast tracts of the country, the natural vote is conservative and although Labour may occasionally get in as a protest vote, then they can be discounted.
No, it is the swing marginals where a thousand or two people can flip the result from one to the other that counts and give one party or another the seat.
With the number of immigrants flooding the country, it just MIGHT cause enough conservative electorates to become swing marginals and flip giving Chairman Corbyn the election result.
Labours promise to permanently change the face of Britain by importing Labour voters is chillingly coming to pass and no party is willing to do anything about it.
As Lyndon Baines Johnson said, “I’ll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years” when he introduced the welfare reforms that destroyed the black family structure. Corbyn might paraphrase it by saying “I’ll have those Muslims voting labour … until Sharia law is introduced”.
I an SO glad I am 12,000 miles away and have enough rifles and ammunition to see me through … If the Government here gets seriously out of line, we can do something about it. In the UK where no one has guns except the criminals and the Government, I can’t see any effective means of doing so – unless the civilian population can set up an underground resistance and have weapons and materiel supplied by a friendly power. Which won’t happen.
As final quotes “They wot won’t study history are doomed to repeat it”. And “A free people that make the mistake of giving up liberty will only make the mistake once … ”
Interesting times ahead, eh?
The largest influx of immigrants over the last 10 years (by a fair margin) are from Poland. And all the Poles I know, and I do mean all, either do not vote or vote Tory. And most live in ‘traditional’ Labour areas. Make of that what you will.
He’s appointed Kerry McCarthy, a vegan, as the new shadow secretary for environment, food and rural affairs – should delight the farmers!
Wasn’t Jake Lew*, bye the bye, was it?
*US Treasury Secretary
Amusingly enough, I just read an article in my favourite paper, The Australian, about how the French have a new aristocracy. A new French book explains the ‘fils et filles de..’ (FFD) system, which sounds a lot like a closed upper elite, however you look at it! That’s another reason the ambitious French are moving to classless societies, like Britain…
Somebody’s been watching Mary Poppins.
You are all letting your libertarian ideals impair your judgement about political possibilities in the UK.
There are a number of possible scenarios:
Labour will re-capture much of Scotland because it appeals to left-wing voters who don’t want independence but were fed up with a centrist Labour Party. The SNP success in the general election was what kept Miliband out of No. 10. If Labour re-takes 20 or so seats in Scotland what will that do to Westminster arithmetic?
Labour will lose scores of seats to UKIP in the north as Corbyn’s suicidally insane policy of welcoming tens of thousands of migrants is seen as a threat by the indiginous working class.(This is what I hope will happen, but I can’t be at all sure.)
A left-wing Labour Party will inspire thousands of left-wingers to join or re-join the Labour Party, and they will campaign and attempt to change minds. I am told that hundreds have joined Labour in Bristol since the announcement of Corbyn’s victory on Saturday. If that is happening in other parts of the country Labour will have a significant boost. And there is a strong chance that the stay-at-home left wing vote will get to the polls.
Equally, a left-wing Labour Party might inspire the stay-at-home Conservative vote to get to the polls.
A number of Labour MPs might leave the party, but remain as MPs, if they get truly frightened about the result of Corbyn’s policies being implemented.
Corbyn’s policies might be modified by consensus in the Labour Party. He is the leader, but he is not the dictator or the sole architect of policy in his party.
All these scenarios are different, and today nobody knows which one will come to pass.
EVERY experienced canvasser of EVERY political party has heard someone on the doorstep say ‘I am not voting because all politicians are the same.’
That excuse for not voting has now gone.
You may wish that Corbyn fails completely, but wishing doesn’t make it so.
Nobody knows what will happen in the next few years.
James Strong;
And just remember what one sociopath once said, quite honestly, lucidly and prophetically about elections:
“It’s not who votes that matters, It’s who COUNTS the votes.”
No. Almost every Tory I know thinks much the same thing as people here are saying.
The same could be said of your analysis.
Indeed, but Corbyn is so very vulnerable on so many fronts that he is a dream candidate for his enemies. All the things that worked brilliantly against Miliband will work in spades against this cunt. He wants to increase taxes by 7% on people making £50,000. Do you have any idea how many people that will effect? That is Middle England gone en mass, along with anyone who aspires to be Middle England. If you think taking the position that alone makes him unelectable is wishful thinking, then I would question your entire analysis. And look at his Shadow Cabinet, it is an ideological echo chamber, so they will get more extreme, not less. And then there is his foreign policy, his support for terrorists, his support for mass immigration + shovelling welfare money over the new arrivals, etc etc…
Far from being blinded by ‘libertarian ideals’, I am being deafened by the sound of champagne corks popping over at Conservative Central Office.
Never forget the power and allure of fantasy to lefties. Despite all the evidence of failures of deeply socialist policies throughout the world, from large-scale deprivation to the kind of death toll that would shame a military conflict, the left always thinks that the next time socialism is tried it will be better and actually work. One has to admire their unparalleled enthusiasm (or naivety, perhaps) but their carefully nurtured illusion that not wearing a tie is a prerequisite for imposing happiness on the world is still strong.
I don’t know if Corbyn is a force to reckon with, but I can see that once again the faithful are energised by the fantasy that one day their shared ideas — when not falling out among themselves (splitters, anyone?) — will somehow finally work this time.
‘And all the Poles I know, and I do mean all, either do not vote or vote (sic) Tory. And most live in ‘traditional’ Labour areas’.
Given the recent history of Poland, I doubt very much that many of them will be that receptive to a hard-left message, let alone warm to someone who says we should all kiss and make up with Uncle Vlad.
Labour could take all the seats in Scotland, and it would not change the general election result. Scotland tends to vote either international socialist (Labour) or national socialist (SNP). That’s a given. The fifty or so seats in Scotland always go to socialist nutjobs. It’s their gift to the Union.
What JohnK said. The Scottish contribution to Westminster arithmetic is almost as bad as it possibly could be (from memory the LibDems, Labour, and Conservatives have an MP each).
If Corbyn ever became PM I would look into leaving the country. Not just me I suspect.
New aristocracy? You’ve got to be joking: the old one never went away.
It is actually a non Marxist part of Mr Corbyn’s belief system.
P. Straffa (the Italian Marxist) first started mixing Marxism with Keynesianism more than 60 years ago – and this is what the modern left is, a mixture of the two.
What caused the boom-bust economic crises?
“Austrian School” economics (much older than the Austrian School actually) teaches that lending should be from REAL SAVINGS – and if a lot of lending is from monetary expansion (creating credit money – from nothing) instead, then one has a bubble which must burst.
Keynesianism teaches that there is nothing wrong with credit money expansion – that is “saving – as real as any other form” (an insane position – but there we go) indeed that it is a jolly good thing.
So what causes the bust then?
“Animal spirits”.
The credit-money boom is entirely fine – and then people ruin it by going into a panic for no real reason.
Say they see people waiting in a line – and think it is a bank run.
Hence the Keynesian obsession with “expectations” and “confidence”.
The modern Chicago School (which actually goes back to Irving Fisher of Yale) is the same on this.
Monetary expansion is fine – as long as the “price level” does not go up.
And a bust is some nasty thing caused by an unreasoning panic.
All potty – but they (both the Keynesians and the Monetarists) have to take this position.
Or they would have to accept that lending should only be of real savings – actual sacrifice of consumption.
And they are totally committed to the idea of spending-from-lending being vastly greater.
The sacrifice of consumption is “Victorian” to these people.
There is an economic storm coming and that is the danger. Enough desperate people and even the shite Corbyn peddles peddles might sound like an alternative.
Those opposed to socialism have allowed the left a bogus legitimacy around the world. They have murdered 200 million human beings and that is a fact that should get into the media every day from now on.
Very good points Paul. My uncle bought a house in London in the 1960s for less than £4000, now it would sell for (I can’t accept it is “worth”) over £2 million. It’s the same house, it’s just the pounds that got smaller. The reason must be that these are not real pounds at all, they are faked into existence by the banking system, and that means there is an infinite supply to fund housing bubbles and the like.
“these are not real pounds at all, they are faked into existence by the banking system”
Not just pounds, but euros, remnibi, dollars, groats..
Insist on Bitcoin 😉
Perry,
Withdraw your vile of cunts and apologise.
Perry,
That should have been ‘Withdraw your vile slur of cunts and apologise’
The earliest refutation of the primacy of consumption, that I know of, is James Mill in Commerce Defended circa 212 years ago but it would not surprise me if there was someone earlier. I forget Mill’s exact quote but his ire could be directed at the whole of parliament [ as it was in his day]: “There is here, a want of discernment which, in a man who stands up as an emphatical teacher in political economy, does hardly deserve quarter!”