I think his position is honest. He knows his opinion is at odds with the party and MPs, so he's leaving it to everyone else in a referendum, while not campaigning with his personal opinion.
Let us imagine there is a GE sometime soon and Labour win, JC is PM.
I don't see it that way since if the vote is to remain, there is no special policy to apply, we just carry on as we were as members.
And hopefully Corbyn would just follow the EU rules that suited us, Just like France, Spain and Hungary etc do already.
he imposes the negotiation with the EU for his deal on Labour's manifesto.
Not really.
Western intervention in the middle east precede the Arab spring, Saddam was a CIA stooge (much like assad is a russian one). Much as in Afghanistan, the uk and us are greatly responsible for the ongoing instability in all of the middle east. I think you may not be seeing the forest for the trees. The dynamics of a tory government exploiting a sectarian division in the uk to undermine democracy isnt that different from what the Assads did since '62. If one look at ones neighbours without sympathy or recognition one can end up being as blind to what's happening to oneself as to what's happening to them.
This could hardly be further from the truth, it's precisely because I'm looking at the whole picture that I posted as I did. I repeat, there was nothing wrong with the lives of ordinary Syrian citizens before they decided on a coup attempt which has destroyed much of their country. That Bashir Assad is a dictator is immaterial, it didn't affect the lives of most Sunni Syrians, the proof being that half the Sunnis stayed loyal to the Assad regime. They fought against the revolutionary Sunnis, which is why they would always have won, even without Russian help.
This is ironic. Reread your post. You have decided what's good for syrians ("there have always been dictatorships affording good lives to citizens"). You may note that I have not passed any judgement on assad, I have simply pointed out that hes a russian proxy (without them he would have been gone a long time ago) and that boris/the fascist wing of the conservatives use the same tactics he and his father did/does. I wouldnt dream of deciding for syrians what's good for them. But I do believe in informed consent, or democracy. treating people like the subjects of their lives, not objects, giving them an informed choice in what happen to them. That's something the assads have never done, for the same reason boris is trying to avoid it. both know their decisions have no democratic legitimacy and their only means to stay in power is to exploit divisions. I dont particularly want to live in a society where this kind of crude manipulation becomes the basis for power.
Nope, it's a informed debate, without name calling. You should try it sometime.
"Name calling" is to insult. Suggesting to fingers that he should try not to be a prick is both helpful advice and a statement of fact.
Well, I dont have any **** like you.
I can only guess what that said but I assume it could be classed as name calling.
I gather. You like it enough to have fantasies about others liking it. And to dredge through old posts for evidence of that. As you may recall, I was responding to fingers calling me a ****. Name calling isnt a primordial sin. It can even be funny. Not when it's a perseverative repetition of boring al right cliches, though.
I haven't decided any such thing, only observed the reality, that the Sunni Syrians had good lives before their attempted coup. They often ran their own profitable businesses, they had freedom of travel and many studied in overseas universities. Their living standards were quite high for that region, they had good housing and didn't go hungry.
Of course you are entitled to have an opinion about what they did. But you extended that to include what you think they should ( or shouldnt)have done). Which is a way of saying what you think is good for them. I may (as I do) think material advantage doesnt justify oppression (much as I dont think the fact that the vichy regime made lots of money justify collaboration). But it isnt for me to choose for syrians what's best. But they didnt, and do not, have a choice. And this isnt right. I dont hate the far right. But I think many in the uk are blind to the fact that brexit is a vehicle for it. That the debate around brexit was explicitly manufactured for the kind of state capture the far right are attempting at present and that this has been planned and attempted before.
The extension is my opinion!!!
