A question the Labour Party has to ask itself

Tuesday 28 July 2015 / Letters

IT IS becoming increasingly rare to find a politician who has sincere convictions.
Most politicians appear desperate to curry favour with the electorate and change their fickle opinions according to which way the wind blows.
Therefore, when a conviction politician comes along things are bound to get lively.
It is hardly surprising then that Jeremy Corbyn has stirred up a hornets’ nest.
He is that rare phenomenon, namely a conviction politician as was my ancestor, the political firebrand, David Lloyd George.
Lloyd George was firm in his convictions and this strategic wizard felt that oppositional political strategy was the only way to success.
Now we have Jeremy Corbyn, who has strong convictions and this plainly comes across when he speaks.
Whether his convictions are good for the country or not, people sense that he is sincere.
This is in stark contrast to the likes of Ed Miliband, who employed an expensive American spin doctor, namely David Axelrod.
Axelrod never even set foot in this country during the election campaign and he did not have a clue about the germane political issues.

Had Miliband possessed his own inner convictions he would not have needed to waste £300,000 of Labour donors’ money.
So now Jeremy Corbyn has set the cat among the pigeons and the Labour Party is in disarray.
They need to ask themselves an intelligent question.

Do voters wish for an opposition party or a pale, watered-down imitation of the party in power?
SUSAN THOMAS
Magdalen Road, Oxford

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A question the Labour Party has to ask itself

Andrew:Oxford says... 3:01pm Tue 28 Jul 15 The country has an official opposition party. It's called the SNP. They oppose everything in Westminster - even things that are legal in Scotland!

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tws says... 10:24pm Wed 29 Jul 15 Jeremy Corbyn resonates with what a lot of local people, (& nationally), really want & need!!!
The facts are, he is being heard & the media & right wing in New Labour aka the war criminal Bliar, don't like it one bit.
Corbyn is calm, concise, uncorruptable & refuses to get into the usual slagging off of opponents. Isn't that a refreshing change from most other corrupt poiticians, only in it, for themselves?
What you have to look at & qualify are his policies, you either like them or you don't?
The alternative, look at the front page regards more NHS closures & privatisation, just ONE issue Corbyn would reverse!

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Zaxharias Ziegla says... 10:25pm Thu 30 Jul 15 "Corbyn is calm, concise, uncorruptable (sic) & refuses to get into the usual slagging off of opponents." That's what was said of Robespiere, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and a whole host of political tyrants. Corbyn's problem (well one of them), like your's, is his outdated dirigiste agenda. From time-to-time a new leftwing Messiah appears to inspire a fresh wave of socialist pseudo-religious mania--but wasn't your Messiah Galloway?

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Andrew:Oxford says... 12:20pm Fri 31 Jul 15

tws wrote…

Jeremy Corbyn resonates with what a lot of local people, (& nationally), really want & need!!!
The facts are, he is being heard & the media & right wing in New Labour aka the war criminal Bliar, don't like it one bit.
Corbyn is calm, concise, uncorruptable & refuses to get into the usual slagging off of opponents. Isn't that a refreshing change from most other corrupt poiticians, only in it, for themselves?
What you have to look at & qualify are his policies, you either like them or you don't?
The alternative, look at the front page regards more NHS closures & privatisation, just ONE issue Corbyn would reverse!

Yet the socialist SNP government in Scotland, which thrashed the Labour party in the GE, has privatised a signficantly higher level of NHS services than the Tories have in England. Will The Corbyn meet the union demands to stop the break-up of the NHS and return it to one united NHS for one United Kingdom?

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