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Indeed, you've nailed it, I want to have a government back that invests in public spending, raises taxes on the wealthy and tries to address household bills because I'm hopelessly in love with a rarefied elite. It all makes perfect sense. Seeing as it doesn't make any difference to you who the...

I always thought it was partly that our intelligence services are very good, but also that because we're an island, it is more difficult to get assault weapons into the country.

Also, Len, this helps nobody: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/22/intelligence-services-using-dark-practices-against-jeremy-corbyn

Politicians have a lot to do. I would rather they were doing constituency work, or other work, than turning up to vote in things they were 100% going to lose in. I don't think Jeremy was involved in trying to amend the bill. He voted against it, either because a) he knew people would...

You have said on multiple occasions that I am brainwashed. You also said, and I'll try to get the spirit right rather than the exact wording, that a fairer society need not mean everyone sitting around eating equal portions of potatoes. But you are remarkably fixed and oddly dictatorial on...

I dunno, if I could download it without people finding out ...

Please explain how Owen Smith is a Tory.

Jeremy Corbyn definitely has the confidence of his constituency, and CLPs, but that does not mean he can command support of people in a general election. I don't understand Corbyn's vision for the country. I hear a lot of slogans, and he spends a lot of time speaking to audiences that already...

There's no point in treating the PLP as one mass of people, as I think views certainly have varied a lot during JC's leadership. The near-unanimous opposition to him is relatively recent. A vocal minority were against him from the very start. What I'm saying is that a lot of people have tried to...

As an addendum, I have also just read this. At time of writing, so far as I know, Jeremy has not issued any kind of response: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/07/lilian-greenwood-mp-jeremy-corbyn-continually-undermined-me-job-i-loved

Jeremy Corbyn has not been called on his incompetence that much, because the PLP have actually been quite restrained. Smat's link is a good example though, and here is something else that's hard to justify from JC: https://www.facebook.com/thangam.debbonaire/posts/10157204442320083 Many of his...

At the moment I am not sure who is the best candidate. I don't think it's either Angela Eagle or Owen Smith, but I do think they're both a better bet than Corbyn. The current arguments have falsely made it look like everyone in Labour is either a follower of Corbyn or on the right of the party...

So ... what do you suggest?

Thanks .V. I'm sure various people will tell me I'm secretly a Tory. Various people will insist this is what I want. It isn't. It's reality. Jeremy Corbyn is not taken seriously by the electorate. Leaders of the opposition are not the same as prime ministers. They do not get the opportunity...

I would suggest that the mess with the junior doctors has already been caused, and cannot be put back in its bottle. Jeremy Hunt is actually a better health secretary than Andrew Lansley, whose reforms were toxically unpopular among the public and doctors. The Health and Social Care Act...

Another tip: there is a pub inside Liverpool Street station (Merchant of Bishopsgate) that has toilets in free to use.

Exhibit A: I found this out from Professor of Political Science at Manchester Uni - the data is Ipsos Mori, I believe: https://twitter.com/robfordmancs/status/753189403653267456 Exhibit B: Ipsos Mori, page 16: https://www.ipsos-mori.com/Assets/Docs/Polls/pm-july-2016-tables.pdf Exhibit C...

That's fine. I have persistently given you the opportunity to explain your views using evidence, and you have repeatedly declined. I do hope you take comfort in your blind faith and political purity as you continue to thrash against reality in your tinfoil hat.

I would have liked Corbyn to be popular with people, and it is to my immense disappointment that people are quite superficial, and demand a certain level of media performance from a leader. I really, really support the policy ideas and platform of Ed Miliband. I thought his ideas, principles and...

Please answer any of my arguments. Jeremy Corbyn has never been shown to be popular. I have provided, repeatedly and over again, evidence he is not popular and unlikely to win. The best counter-argument you have is that across the Atlantic, in a very different country, someone who is actually...