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Originally Posted by denphone
There is good and bad in every party and anybody who thinks there is not has rose tinted glasses on....
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You can only get those at Labour conventions Den. The Tories have a blue tint in theirs and any tint is wasted on the Lib Dems because their spectacle lenses are about an inch thick.
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Originally Posted by Damien
It's important to remember these people are the nutters though. There are plenty of moderate people on the left and the right that look at these people and think they're mad. We shouldn't let discussions be framed by the most extreme elements or we'll become like America where no political discourse is possible without being hating each other.
I think Cohen is right but also a bit melodramatic. He is right the Labour party has currently been hijacked by these people, although in fairness Corbyn doesn't appear to share the hatred which infests some of his supporters, but he is wrong to 'leave the left' because of it. There are plenty of people on the left who don't share the views of these social media warriors.
I said this in the other thread but I don't like the way this trend is going in the UK. Everyone seems to be getting angrier and thinking evil of their political opponents.  |
I don't think they're all evil - misguided, idiotic, shortsighted, hypocritical but not evil.
There are plenty of decent people in parliament, we just don't hear enough from them and as a consequence people like Corbyn get elected. I think Corbyn knows full well who's attaching themselves to his coat-tails and if he continues to tolerate their nonsense he's effectively condoning it. People like Corbyn and Livingstone have a nasty side to their characters which they usually manage to contain. It's their nonetheless.