Remarkable Corbyn, successful Corbyn, socialist Corbyn lasted nearly 5 years - unbelievable!!

4 April 2020

Remarkable Corbyn, successful Corbyn, socialist Corbyn lasted nearly 5 years - unbelievable!!

How did he do it?  A man of the people, comforting the Grenfell survivors; standing up at PMQs for that workhorse and kingpin of transport modes - the bus; railing against all our many wars in foreign lands down the decades.

He skillfully steered a middle course over the Brexit shambles realising that his party was riven down the middle with pro and anti-Europeans.  The Brexit General Election was his undoing because he tried to be democratic, principled and wanted to give his party and the nation a final say in what should be done.  But the irrational, impatient electorate had had enough of all the shilly-shallying and simply wanted out after three and a half years of indecision.  Should he simply have seen the mood of the electorate for out and simply advised out and campaigned for out?  Would that have meant a much closer fight between Johnson and him last December?

He wanted massive spending to end austerity and to put things right for the poor, the disadvantaged and the vulnerable.  Ironically, spending is now happening with Covid-19 but not to build that fairer, more equal and sustainable society that should be everyone's top priority.

For me, he was the best Labour leader I have seen and probably the best since Keir Hardie.

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MY PHOTOS: what you see described by one person as 'bizarre'; another called it 'bonkers':

Wasted 56 Kms from Stourbridge Jct to Burton on Trent on the ready built, but only half used, 120 Kms Worcester to Derby principal mainline railway:MISSION STATEMENT

Burton to Bristol via Brierley Hill; Derby to Devon via Dudley - by TRAIN not "bus on rails" trams as they are wanting; nor with new extended cycle-walkway, as volunteers are working on!

 

ASSORTED PROPAGANDA- don't get corrupted:

W Mids Metro means a slower and longer journey for bus users and other road users.

It means more train overcrowding with trams being the second most expensive mode after HS2, diverting money away from reinstating TRAINS on railway lines.

More clogged streets and more changes on the Worcester to Black Country to Derby principal mainline railway.

£1.5 BILLION of Metro trams for five extensions to 2026 does NOT build a more sustainable society.

Metro tram billions add to austerity, to poverty and greenhouse gases to turn planet earth into uninhabitable venus, our 'twin' and sister planet.

Apparently, billions spent to boost greenhouse gases to get us out of the second most important international alliance after the UN, as the planet both burns and floods!!  The housing crisis, social care/NHS cuts, education cuts.  BUT, spending on armaments has gone up to 2% of GNP.  A negligent, incompetent and foolish government.  Nothing quite like ecocide, courtesy of the Queen and Her Majesty's Gone out of their mind, so called, 'government'!

Tim Weller   Prospective Independent candidate for W Mids Metro Mayor 2021 to instil some urgency into how changes in transport, jobs and housing policy can reduce the impact of human climate breakdown and postpone Attenborough's "collapse of civilisations" and "extinction of much of the natural world" and "time is running out" warnings.

For a more sensible, cost effective and easier ways to reduce congestion and pollution.  Fareless, electric buses for ALL; not for the few, like me!  To free up road space for essential users.  Paid for by abandoning Metro, diesel Sprint and CAZ.