Hypothetically speaking 10:31 - Feb 22 with 18197 views | blueasfook | On the remote chance that labour had won the election... I wonder what noises Comrade Corbyn would be making to the Russians over their illegal invasion of Ukraine. He would probably side with them and wish them well. |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 10:41 - Feb 22 with 4487 views | bournemouthblue | Russia of course are just as closely aligned to the Tory Party given various donations etc Corbyn was weak on defence, that was definitely the weaker point of his leadership and certainly a contributing factor to him not winning What must not be forgotten is he was actually pretty popular with the under 45's, there's a massive divide in this country politically across age |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 10:42 - Feb 22 with 4477 views | giant_stow | He might have done a brexit and told the nation he was 7/10 cross with the Russians. |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 10:48 - Feb 22 with 4446 views | BloomBlue | Definitely a fifth columnist |  | |  |
Hypothetically speaking on 10:52 - Feb 22 with 4405 views | GlasgowBlue | Whatever Stop The War are saying, Corbyn will say the same. So basically it's all the fault of NATO. |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 10:53 - Feb 22 with 4433 views | Steve_M | I'll go for about five pages before the thread gets pulled.... Given Seumus Milne's consistent Putin-apologism and the instinctive anti-Western views of the one-time Dear Leader then I imagine we would be seeing government statements along the same lines as the 'both-siding' and blaming of NATO emanating from Corbyn & Abbott over the last week. The 2019 election was a truly dreadful choice between two men unfit, each for a multitude of reasons, to be Prime Minister. At least the Labour Party is rectifying that now, the Tories rather less so. |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:04 - Feb 22 with 4370 views | blueasfook |
Hypothetically speaking on 10:52 - Feb 22 by GlasgowBlue | Whatever Stop The War are saying, Corbyn will say the same. So basically it's all the fault of NATO. |
Now you mention it, yes. I think Stop The War released a statement saying pretty much that! NATO aggression has brought about the Ukraine crisis. Signed of course by Jeremy and fellow commie Dianne Abbott |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:06 - Feb 22 with 4346 views | noggin |
Hypothetically speaking on 10:41 - Feb 22 by bournemouthblue | Russia of course are just as closely aligned to the Tory Party given various donations etc Corbyn was weak on defence, that was definitely the weaker point of his leadership and certainly a contributing factor to him not winning What must not be forgotten is he was actually pretty popular with the under 45's, there's a massive divide in this country politically across age |
"Corbyn was weak on defence" Defence against what? |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:09 - Feb 22 with 4330 views | blueasfook |
Hypothetically speaking on 11:06 - Feb 22 by noggin | "Corbyn was weak on defence" Defence against what? |
Let's just say he'd be the Paul Cook of prime ministers |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:13 - Feb 22 with 4298 views | Steve_M |
Hypothetically speaking on 10:53 - Feb 22 by Steve_M | I'll go for about five pages before the thread gets pulled.... Given Seumus Milne's consistent Putin-apologism and the instinctive anti-Western views of the one-time Dear Leader then I imagine we would be seeing government statements along the same lines as the 'both-siding' and blaming of NATO emanating from Corbyn & Abbott over the last week. The 2019 election was a truly dreadful choice between two men unfit, each for a multitude of reasons, to be Prime Minister. At least the Labour Party is rectifying that now, the Tories rather less so. |
Oh look: |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:19 - Feb 22 with 4264 views | noggin |
Hypothetically speaking on 11:13 - Feb 22 by Steve_M | Oh look: |
There are not many countries where being anti foreign war is seen as a weak. Britain is clearly one. |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:21 - Feb 22 with 4239 views | blueasfook |
Hypothetically speaking on 11:13 - Feb 22 by Steve_M | Oh look: |
These people never progressed beyond Student Union politics did they? they have no idea of how grown up politics works |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:24 - Feb 22 with 4226 views | blueasfook |
Hypothetically speaking on 11:19 - Feb 22 by noggin | There are not many countries where being anti foreign war is seen as a weak. Britain is clearly one. |
Britain's position is aligned with NATO , the EU and the US in that we have been pursuing a diplomatic solution to the crisis. The aggressor is purely Russia. How can you possibly say we haven't been anti foreign war in this situation? |  |
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Hypothetically speaking (n/t) on 11:24 - Feb 22 with 4219 views | GeoffSentence | Piers or Jeremy? [Post edited 22 Feb 2022 11:24]
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:26 - Feb 22 with 4194 views | noggin |
Hypothetically speaking on 11:24 - Feb 22 by blueasfook | Britain's position is aligned with NATO , the EU and the US in that we have been pursuing a diplomatic solution to the crisis. The aggressor is purely Russia. How can you possibly say we haven't been anti foreign war in this situation? |
Twas you that brought up Corbyn's anti war stance as being a negative. |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:29 - Feb 22 with 4160 views | Darth_Koont | Just another ridiculous smear. The idea that Corbyn has any affinity to an authoritarian despot who throws his military weight around is pure fantasy for the hard of thinking. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of you about. 😀 |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:36 - Feb 22 with 4100 views | Darth_Koont |
Hypothetically speaking on 10:53 - Feb 22 by Steve_M | I'll go for about five pages before the thread gets pulled.... Given Seumus Milne's consistent Putin-apologism and the instinctive anti-Western views of the one-time Dear Leader then I imagine we would be seeing government statements along the same lines as the 'both-siding' and blaming of NATO emanating from Corbyn & Abbott over the last week. The 2019 election was a truly dreadful choice between two men unfit, each for a multitude of reasons, to be Prime Minister. At least the Labour Party is rectifying that now, the Tories rather less so. |
You don’t seem to be able to entertain the idea that Putin, China etc are wrong but so are we too frequently. We are also pretty committed to protecting and extending our spheres of influence at the expense of ordinary people’s lives. And our hypocritical alliances with Saudi Arabia, Israel or whatever regime is favourable to us around the world does us zero credit. How do you rate the success/failure of our interventions around the world over the past couple of decades? [Post edited 22 Feb 2022 11:38]
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:40 - Feb 22 with 4053 views | Darth_Koont |
Hypothetically speaking on 11:21 - Feb 22 by blueasfook | These people never progressed beyond Student Union politics did they? they have no idea of how grown up politics works |
The “grownups” have repeatedly shown themselves to be total asshats who don’t know what they’re doing. |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:40 - Feb 22 with 4053 views | blueasfook |
Hypothetically speaking on 11:29 - Feb 22 by Darth_Koont | Just another ridiculous smear. The idea that Corbyn has any affinity to an authoritarian despot who throws his military weight around is pure fantasy for the hard of thinking. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of you about. 😀 |
Enough of us to ensure that a traitor like Corbyn would never get into a real position of power yes. And that makes me feel good. He should stick to visiting his terrorist pals (IRA, Hezbollah, Hamas et al) [Post edited 22 Feb 2022 11:41]
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:42 - Feb 22 with 4018 views | Darth_Koont |
Hypothetically speaking on 11:40 - Feb 22 by blueasfook | Enough of us to ensure that a traitor like Corbyn would never get into a real position of power yes. And that makes me feel good. He should stick to visiting his terrorist pals (IRA, Hezbollah, Hamas et al) [Post edited 22 Feb 2022 11:41]
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I thought we had agreed that smears are no way to run politics. You’re a clueless fool. |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:45 - Feb 22 with 3992 views | blueasfook |
Hypothetically speaking on 11:42 - Feb 22 by Darth_Koont | I thought we had agreed that smears are no way to run politics. You’re a clueless fool. |
Me and the millions of others who didn't vote for the commie yes. |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:48 - Feb 22 with 3960 views | Darth_Koont |
Hypothetically speaking on 11:45 - Feb 22 by blueasfook | Me and the millions of others who didn't vote for the commie yes. |
Yes. Blind yet proud ignorance is a major problem. We get the politicians, governments and society we deserve as a result. |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:49 - Feb 22 with 3951 views | DanTheMan |
Hypothetically speaking on 11:36 - Feb 22 by Darth_Koont | You don’t seem to be able to entertain the idea that Putin, China etc are wrong but so are we too frequently. We are also pretty committed to protecting and extending our spheres of influence at the expense of ordinary people’s lives. And our hypocritical alliances with Saudi Arabia, Israel or whatever regime is favourable to us around the world does us zero credit. How do you rate the success/failure of our interventions around the world over the past couple of decades? [Post edited 22 Feb 2022 11:38]
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This is pure whataboutism though, it has nothing to do with the situation in Ukraine. What Russia is doing in Ukraine right now is wrong and we would be right to sanction them for trying for quite literally invading a country. If it was us doing something similar I'd be furious. Putin's reasoning given last night was shockingly similar to Hitler's reasoning for taking the Sudentenland, and I'm not exaggerating there. We can be wrong about things and so can they. The default of "west wrong" is no better than "west right". |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:51 - Feb 22 with 3936 views | blueasfook |
Hypothetically speaking on 11:48 - Feb 22 by Darth_Koont | Yes. Blind yet proud ignorance is a major problem. We get the politicians, governments and society we deserve as a result. |
I think it's testimony to how unpalatable to the electorate Jeremy Corbyn was that he was comprehensively beaten by Boris Johnson. I'd have left the country and gone into exile. |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:52 - Feb 22 with 3913 views | Darth_Koont |
Hypothetically speaking on 11:49 - Feb 22 by DanTheMan | This is pure whataboutism though, it has nothing to do with the situation in Ukraine. What Russia is doing in Ukraine right now is wrong and we would be right to sanction them for trying for quite literally invading a country. If it was us doing something similar I'd be furious. Putin's reasoning given last night was shockingly similar to Hitler's reasoning for taking the Sudentenland, and I'm not exaggerating there. We can be wrong about things and so can they. The default of "west wrong" is no better than "west right". |
It was also shockingly similar to the “reasons” for us going into Iraq, Afghanistan or bombing Libya. We don’t have much of a leg to stand on. But of course we should try to bring sanctions. I’m talking about the militarization surrounding Ukraine on both sides that hasn’t suddenly become a thing in 2022. |  |
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Hypothetically speaking on 11:55 - Feb 22 with 3889 views | Darth_Koont |
Hypothetically speaking on 11:51 - Feb 22 by blueasfook | I think it's testimony to how unpalatable to the electorate Jeremy Corbyn was that he was comprehensively beaten by Boris Johnson. I'd have left the country and gone into exile. |
Based on silly smears like yours and a Brexit fantasy. We should try living in the real world for once – then maybe we’d see politicians and policies addressing the real issues affecting the UK and the world. |  |
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