Hi Reohn2, So you think that Corbyn would have made a difference if Labour had won the last election? For once I agree with you
, but don't get too elated. That difference would not have been beneficial.
I can only recall one group of political aspirants who sett out a manifesto and actually stuck to it?
Some names, Dominic Byrne, Tony Mulholland, Derek Hatton et al, they orchestrated a victory in the Council Elections. The did it by being fronted by a genuinely decent, caring man, a retired Head-Teacher, John Hamilton, a devout Quaker. He saw no wrong in anyone, which was his weakness. Hamilton was trusted by the denizens of the city, but the plan of the plotters, and plotters they were, was the design of Militant Tendency. Building more social housing was at the core, suppress the rents for all of the social housing, many other Robert Tressall approved factors. They went so far as to give out "Decorating Money gifts, but only to the social housing families, but paid for those who paid rates, but gifted to those who didn't.
It worked, they won that election. Then they planned and built a multitude of properties, very costly, but hey paying for the over 60 years would make them look cheap.
Upshot? The city was almost bankrupted, sold to the banks, Thatcher took her revenge, the city was screwed.
Hatton is a pre-cursor for a Corbyn on the road to ruin. But they followed the Militant Tendency plan! MM