Corbyn goes anti-immigration in a very openly Brit nationalist way.
Jeremy Corbyn: “wholesale” EU immigration has destroyed conditions for British workers
Mass immigration from the European Union has been used to "destroy" the conditions of British workers, Jeremy Corbyn said today.
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Laying out the case for leaving the single market, Corbyn used language we have rarely heard from him - blaming immigration for harming the lives of British workers.
The Labour leader said that after leaving the EU, there would still be European workers in Britain and vice versa.
He added: "What there wouldn't be is the wholesale importation of underpaid workers from central Europe in order to destroy conditions, particularly in the construction industry."
Corbyn said he would prevent agencies from advertising jobs in central Europe - asking them to "advertise in the locality first".
This idea draws on the "Preston model" adopted by that local authority, of trying to prioritise local suppliers for public sector contracts.
The rules of the EU prevent this approach, seeing it as discrimination.
In the future, foreign workers would "come here on the basis of the jobs available and their skill sets to go with it. What we wouldn't allow is this practice by agencies, who are quite disgraceful they way they do it - recruit a workforce, low paid - and bring them here in order to dismiss an existing workforce in the construction industry, then pay them low wages. It's appalling. And the only people who benefit are the companies."
Recall that Bernie Sanders was anti-immigration in much the same way until the New York Times editorial folks had him in for a chat and straightened him out.
It can't be racist and wicked when the right say it (Trump, for example) and OK when the left say it (Bernie, for example).
Showing posts with label Jeremy Corbyn. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 17, 2015
The very liberal and firmly pro-Democratic but also very globo-interventionist and Zionist Boston Globe finds Corbyn "worrisome"
The Labour Party’s worrisome leftward lunch
Corbyn’s stands include such outmoded ideas as nationalizing the UK’s railroads and energy companies, imposing a maximum wage on private-sector salaries, and the widespread reimposition of rent control.
Some prominent Labour MPs are already upset about his refusal to rule out joining the campaign to pull Britain out of the European Union.
On foreign policy, Corbyn has called for unilateral nuclear disarmament for Britain, is against air strikes targeting ISIS, and supports a ban on the sale of weapons to Israel.
He has talked of having Britain leave NATO, though more recently has called for a rethinking of NATO’s mission.
He labeled the killing, rather than trial, of Osama bin Laden “a tragedy.”
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If Labour is to regain the central role it played from 1994 to 2010, it won’t be under Corbyn.
Rather, it will take a different leader, a modern-day Blair, to reverse the ideological excess that now holds sway.
That’s probably at least one general election loss away, but the sooner it happens, the better.
Corbyn’s stands include such outmoded ideas as nationalizing the UK’s railroads and energy companies, imposing a maximum wage on private-sector salaries, and the widespread reimposition of rent control.
Some prominent Labour MPs are already upset about his refusal to rule out joining the campaign to pull Britain out of the European Union.
On foreign policy, Corbyn has called for unilateral nuclear disarmament for Britain, is against air strikes targeting ISIS, and supports a ban on the sale of weapons to Israel.
He has talked of having Britain leave NATO, though more recently has called for a rethinking of NATO’s mission.
He labeled the killing, rather than trial, of Osama bin Laden “a tragedy.”
. . . .
If Labour is to regain the central role it played from 1994 to 2010, it won’t be under Corbyn.
Rather, it will take a different leader, a modern-day Blair, to reverse the ideological excess that now holds sway.
That’s probably at least one general election loss away, but the sooner it happens, the better.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Early reports are in
Jeremy Corbyn's first day at school
Does not favor "Brexit," but a "social Europe."
Would not resign over Trident, but favors Brit nuclear disarmament.
Has had the habit, all these years, of refusing to sing the national anthem, perhaps out of republicanism.
Does not deny wanting to simply print money to finance his left-ish agenda items, or that such a policy of deliberate inflation would work like a flat tax on wealth and savings with no shelters at all, affecting workers, the elderly, and anyone else among the 99% as harmfully as those of the 1%.
It seems highly unlikely that workers or the elderly would get back in enhanced government largess the value of their savings lost to the government, given he plans to spend it on things like universal free higher education, and in any case they would lose the freedom to spend that value as they choose.
The chief virtues of using actual taxation rather than inflation are that savings are spared while income is taxed progressively, but there are other advantages, too.
Establishment, globo-interventionist WAPO attacks Corbyn
The threat of Jeremy Corbyn’s radically anti-American agenda
He's anti-American and anti-Zionist to the point of supporting some of the world's bad guys and idiots.
Which doesn't mean WAPO is right in wanting us to support their enemies and ourselves continue a global interventionism.
And his old style, Labor Party, union-made socialism is pretty silly.
Those coal mines were closed for being big time money losers.
And nationalization is stupid for the same reasons socialism per se is stupid.
Think of everything that's wrong with monopoly and oligopoly guaranteed against any form of competition, forever.
Think of the proven commitment of socialism, especially labor union controlled socialism, to such egregious economic evils as featherbedding and Luddite opposition to innovation.
A view from further right.
The Labour Party's Two Word Suicide Note
Pretty good piece by Alex Massie.
But many writers on the left still like Corbyn, as does Bernie Sanders, for his stand against austerity.
What Hillary Clinton Can Learn From Corbyn
He's anti-American and anti-Zionist to the point of supporting some of the world's bad guys and idiots.
Which doesn't mean WAPO is right in wanting us to support their enemies and ourselves continue a global interventionism.
And his old style, Labor Party, union-made socialism is pretty silly.
Those coal mines were closed for being big time money losers.
And nationalization is stupid for the same reasons socialism per se is stupid.
Think of everything that's wrong with monopoly and oligopoly guaranteed against any form of competition, forever.
Think of the proven commitment of socialism, especially labor union controlled socialism, to such egregious economic evils as featherbedding and Luddite opposition to innovation.
A view from further right.
The Labour Party's Two Word Suicide Note
Pretty good piece by Alex Massie.
But many writers on the left still like Corbyn, as does Bernie Sanders, for his stand against austerity.
What Hillary Clinton Can Learn From Corbyn
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Victory for the further left
His present compares to Bernie's past.
A view from the right.
Some views from the left.
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Saturday, August 15, 2015
The left likes Jeremy Corbyn. So do I, on the whole.
Jeremy Corbyn, the socialist
The man who wants to re-nationalize railways and energy companies and reopen long-failed coal mines.
Also free tuition at all Britain's universities.
Anti-austerity moves to boost the economy; looks like his support is a sort of Brit Syriza moment, in at least that respect.
And more.
Corbyn's positions on foreign policy are more extreme.
He wants to withdraw from NATO, abolish the UK's nuclear arsenal, and has suggested that Blair could face a war crimes trial for his role in the Iraq War.
His position on Ukraine echoes the Kremlin's: He's written that Russian expansionism "is not unprovoked" and that "the obsession with cold war politics that exercises the Nato and EU leaderships is fueling the crisis."
Well, I would have thought it made more sense for the US to leave NATO and for the UK to stay in, but to each his own.
I like his take on Ukraine, though.
And I suppose so long as NATO is committed to pushing its collective thumb deep into Russia's eye wanting out is understandable.
Jeremy Corbyn, Britain's Bernie moment
Like Sanders, Corbyn has long advocated for a rejection of austerity politics and a return to seemingly outmoded policies of ambitious social spending, government activism and higher taxes on big business and the rich.
He has proposed universal childcare and free higher education for all, wants to renationalize Britain’s railroads and utilities, and believes the country should withdraw from NATO, scrap its nuclear missiles and invest most of its military budget in job programs.
Hilarious, right?
Political suicide!
Talk about being out of touch with reality!
Well, nobody’s laughing at the old-time lefty crackpot now.
What few saw coming – and this happened with Sanders too – is that those old-school social-democratic ideas only sound outmoded to those who have been around long enough to be relentlessly indoctrinated with the Reagan-Thatcher ideology that the era of Big Government was a dreadful failure and that the true path to prosperity involves endless rounds of tax-cutting and “belt-tightening.”
To younger generations raised amid the depressing, pseudo-Calvinist piety of permanent austerity and downward mobility, the revolutionary notion that the government might actually help you get an education, find a job, afford a decent place to live and raise your family — instead of just standing there and scolding — doesn’t sound old or tired in the slightest.
Evidently, that both Bernie and Jeremy are geezers hasn't caused a little bulb to light up for Brit journalists any more than for Americans.
Nor the multitudes of gray heads in those big audiences Bernie gathers.
Per the piece in Salon, he scares The Guardian, who seem to think he's a sure loser, much as the Democratic Party establishment in the US still seems to insist about Bernie.
The Salon writer seems more sympathetic to JC and his wave of support.
Is Salon generally to the left of The Guardian?
Maybe.
Andrew O'Hehir concludes,
It’s quite possible that Tony Blair and the other mainstream critics are correct that old-school socialists like Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders are too easily demonized by the right, and are not “electable” in conventional political terms.
(Opinion polling suggests that Corbyn may now be the most popular politician in Britain, but such things are transitory.)
But their emergence testifies to the failures of conventional politics, and whether they can win elections is less important than the worldwide hunger for change they have momentarily captured.
Neither of them offers anything close to a political panacea, in my view, but they represent a rising tide of resistance against the global cult of fiscal austerity and corporate capitalism, as do Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain and other emerging left-populist movements.
(Donald Trump does not belong in that group, but he represents a bizarro-world inversion of the same phenomenon.)
Even if the Labour Party establishment can find a way to stop the Corbyn surge – and it’s definitely trying to, by fair means or foul – it runs the risk of burning down Britain’s venerable working-class party in order to save it, or making it look hopelessly out of touch with its own core supporters.
Win or lose, the Corbyn rebellion has launched a political chain reaction whose destabilizing effects will extend well beyond Britain.
From this side of the Atlantic, Hillary Clinton’s inner circle of advisers and strategists are watching with increasingly green expressions, telling themselves over and over: It can’t happen here.
Well, to be honest, I increasingly hope it does.
The capitalist pigs of global neoliberalism and their fellow-traveling "third way" creeps of the Democratic and liberal establishments have been having things their own way for far too long.
They need a good thrashing, and who could we expect to deliver it but people who are far from being star-struck admirers of the emerging global plutocracy?
Doing better than Bernie?
Jeremy Corbyn is most popular among voters from all parties, poll suggests
The man who wants to re-nationalize railways and energy companies and reopen long-failed coal mines.
Also free tuition at all Britain's universities.
Anti-austerity moves to boost the economy; looks like his support is a sort of Brit Syriza moment, in at least that respect.
And more.
Corbyn's positions on foreign policy are more extreme.
He wants to withdraw from NATO, abolish the UK's nuclear arsenal, and has suggested that Blair could face a war crimes trial for his role in the Iraq War.
His position on Ukraine echoes the Kremlin's: He's written that Russian expansionism "is not unprovoked" and that "the obsession with cold war politics that exercises the Nato and EU leaderships is fueling the crisis."
Well, I would have thought it made more sense for the US to leave NATO and for the UK to stay in, but to each his own.
I like his take on Ukraine, though.
And I suppose so long as NATO is committed to pushing its collective thumb deep into Russia's eye wanting out is understandable.
Jeremy Corbyn, Britain's Bernie moment
Like Sanders, Corbyn has long advocated for a rejection of austerity politics and a return to seemingly outmoded policies of ambitious social spending, government activism and higher taxes on big business and the rich.
He has proposed universal childcare and free higher education for all, wants to renationalize Britain’s railroads and utilities, and believes the country should withdraw from NATO, scrap its nuclear missiles and invest most of its military budget in job programs.
Hilarious, right?
Political suicide!
Talk about being out of touch with reality!
Well, nobody’s laughing at the old-time lefty crackpot now.
What few saw coming – and this happened with Sanders too – is that those old-school social-democratic ideas only sound outmoded to those who have been around long enough to be relentlessly indoctrinated with the Reagan-Thatcher ideology that the era of Big Government was a dreadful failure and that the true path to prosperity involves endless rounds of tax-cutting and “belt-tightening.”
To younger generations raised amid the depressing, pseudo-Calvinist piety of permanent austerity and downward mobility, the revolutionary notion that the government might actually help you get an education, find a job, afford a decent place to live and raise your family — instead of just standing there and scolding — doesn’t sound old or tired in the slightest.
Evidently, that both Bernie and Jeremy are geezers hasn't caused a little bulb to light up for Brit journalists any more than for Americans.
Nor the multitudes of gray heads in those big audiences Bernie gathers.
Per the piece in Salon, he scares The Guardian, who seem to think he's a sure loser, much as the Democratic Party establishment in the US still seems to insist about Bernie.
The Salon writer seems more sympathetic to JC and his wave of support.
Is Salon generally to the left of The Guardian?
Maybe.
Andrew O'Hehir concludes,
It’s quite possible that Tony Blair and the other mainstream critics are correct that old-school socialists like Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders are too easily demonized by the right, and are not “electable” in conventional political terms.
(Opinion polling suggests that Corbyn may now be the most popular politician in Britain, but such things are transitory.)
But their emergence testifies to the failures of conventional politics, and whether they can win elections is less important than the worldwide hunger for change they have momentarily captured.
Neither of them offers anything close to a political panacea, in my view, but they represent a rising tide of resistance against the global cult of fiscal austerity and corporate capitalism, as do Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain and other emerging left-populist movements.
(Donald Trump does not belong in that group, but he represents a bizarro-world inversion of the same phenomenon.)
Even if the Labour Party establishment can find a way to stop the Corbyn surge – and it’s definitely trying to, by fair means or foul – it runs the risk of burning down Britain’s venerable working-class party in order to save it, or making it look hopelessly out of touch with its own core supporters.
Win or lose, the Corbyn rebellion has launched a political chain reaction whose destabilizing effects will extend well beyond Britain.
From this side of the Atlantic, Hillary Clinton’s inner circle of advisers and strategists are watching with increasingly green expressions, telling themselves over and over: It can’t happen here.
Well, to be honest, I increasingly hope it does.
The capitalist pigs of global neoliberalism and their fellow-traveling "third way" creeps of the Democratic and liberal establishments have been having things their own way for far too long.
They need a good thrashing, and who could we expect to deliver it but people who are far from being star-struck admirers of the emerging global plutocracy?
Doing better than Bernie?
Jeremy Corbyn is most popular among voters from all parties, poll suggests
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