Ok I’ll try to explain. Firstly I am a fully paid up card holding member of the Labour Party and have been fir years. My husband was a labour councillor until he stood down last year due to having prostate cancer. We are both staunch union members and have both been shop stewards. My late mother God rest her soul was a staunch socialist and stood with the socialist workers at the siege of cable street in white chapel fighting Oswald Mosley and his black shirts and was arrested there. Our MP is a secular Jew, her description not mine. She has been bombarded with anti Semitic e mails from Corbyn supporters and Jews no longer feel safe to be members of the party. He had done absolutely nothing about it and anti Semitic members have not been removed from the party. My mother would be horrified to see how much anti Semitic rhetoric is being said and I have seen the evidence for myself.
I don’t think he’s got to lead the country I wouldn’t let him lead my dog around the park and it pains me to say it.
End of rant and I appreciate many in this site will disagree but I hope you will allow that I might disagree with you too. No offence intended
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GG, the Labour Party candidate for Dundee West is a lad called Jim Malone. He got dragged into the anti-semitism tosh and it's a total fallacy.
Jim doesn't agree wirh fascistic zionist values and presents a strong case against occupation in the West Bank - that doesn't make him anti-semitic, it only makes him pro-Palestinian in the sense that an invading force are further trying to culturally evict the native population.
Jeremy Corbyn represents those same values. Beyond that alone, Jeremy Corbyn will regulate corporate interests. He will fund the Health Service, he will nationalise industries that are now profit-hungry behemoths and he will ensure that taxes are relative to income.
Every aspect of the media bias is based on self interest and preserving the money-making status quo.
I will vote tactically this election, as my preferred candidate has about as much chance of picking up the seat as the huns have of clearing their debt.
There are no mainstream political parties that accurately reflect my own political values, but prior to Blairism, the Labour Party were my weapon of choice. Scotland needs a strong Labour Party and the vast majority of the current Scottish Party are nothing more than mealy-mouthed bourgeoisie who think that being radical means drinking red wine with a nice chunk of seabass.
I urge you to have faith in Corbyn, GG..........as has been previously mentioned, the alternative is truly terrifying.