@badradger saidLeft, take a left & further left...... Roundabout ahead, slow down Sir it's a left for..... sake, catch 22🚬
I Quit
@hells-caretaker saidThe Question is at what Point do you hit the leftmost imaginable Position (and what ist it?)
Left, take a left & further left...... Roundabout ahead, slow down Sir it's a left for..... sake, catch 22🚬
Amongst Corbyn's crimes, you should include failure to provide the quality of opposition that creates the checks and balances required in a political system that relies on debate between the two sides of the house.
COVID admission rates are not as high as April (nor is the rate of increase) and yet they are sufficient to completely justify lockdown because, as we all know, the NHS now runs beyond capacity every winter even when there is no pandemic or viral epidemic of any kind. We are all familiar with the usual winter images of people being treated in corridors.
Corbyn was the opposition when the years of austerity set the scene for the current destruction of our economy. Despite many right of centre voters saying that austerity had gone too far and that the health service and the police were now in serious difficulties where they had once been the pride of the nation, Corbyn simply served to make the government's treatment of public services look reasonable or at least the better option in most people's eyes. The false economy from sailing too close to the wind is now glaringly obvious. Without austerity we wouldn't be in lockdown yet, we would also have the proper numbers of nurses to make proper use of field hospitals. Did austerity save more than it will now cost us?
Sorry if this belongs in debates, but so does the rest of the thread.