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Originally Posted by Damien
The party did vote to make it easier to expel anti-seminites and the worst of behaviour of the conference would have been at the fringe events rather than the conference itself.
I think there is a problem with anti-semitism on the left and one of unfairly demonising opponents but I don't think it's limited to them. Certainly the latter is seen across the political divide.
I have pointed out the problem with Corbyn and the left before but I think you're losing perspective with the party as a whole.
I mean you brought up the 2008 crisis but the economic policies that led to that are far closer to what the Tories advocate than Corbyn. The current Tory party are much closer to New Labour than Corbyn's Labour, the latter want far more regulation, nationalised banks, financial transaction taxes and so on.
The only real thing they share with New Labour is the name.
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Corbyn has done nothing to root out racism, sexism, anti-semitism or any form of nastiness his chums choose to employ. Just look at his circle of friends and allies. Anyone who tolerates a thug like McDonnell in such a senior position clearly doesn't have any issues with nastiness and intimidation. A female BBC reporter needing a bodyguard at their conference FGS. Who the hell are these people? Corbyn's crew are apologists for the most appalling behaviour and clearly don't mind being propped up by some very intolerant people indeed.
During my lifetime Labour have created economic chaos whatever incarnation they've chosen to spin themselves as. Whether it be the likes of Dennis Healey or Gordon Brown they've always wound up borrowing too much, spending unwisely and leaving others to pick up the pieces and having the audacity to blame them for it. They called in the IMF and made the UK a pathetic laughing stock then after over a decade in power with a huge majority they steered us into the biggest crisis in living memory and tried to blame the Tories for that. Yeah, forgive me for being harsh on Labour but I've been around long enough to know what they're like and that they haven't improved one iota. Nasty, inept and a disgrace to the people they say they represent.