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Corbyn did win, what's next?

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He won, will politics be at all different now?

I'm interested to see his first PM questions. Will he fail like Cameron did in making it anything but a Punch and Judy show. I read he wants to make it more inclusive of back benchers and the public, he has apparently already emailed many of the old and new supporters asking what question they'd like asked.
 
Darat said:
He won, will politics be at all different now?

I'm interested to see his first PM questions. Will he fail like Cameron did in making it anything but a Punch and Judy show. I read he wants to make it more inclusive of back benchers and the public, he has apparently already emailed many of the old and new supporters asking what question they'd like asked.
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Cor Blimey! He can't even come up with his own questions and has resorted to asking members of the public?

Doesn't he understand that that's what lobbyists are there for?
 
I confidently predict the Tory benches braying like a load of demented Old Etonians. Oh, wait....
 
I feel inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.....

...no sorry i tried, honestly I did...who the **** thought it was a good idea to elect him?

Should be *********** ashamed of themselves.
 
Just in: Andy Burnham is now shadow home secretary, while Hilary Benn, another centrist, continues as shadow foreign secretary. Tom Watson, the deputy leader, stated earlier that he disagrees with Corbyn's stance on Trident and NATO.

These are all good signs, as long as John McDonnell is not made shadow chancellor. All self-styled skeptics should be wary of McDonnell, who supports homeopathy and herbal medicine.
 
Nick Terry said:
Just in: Andy Burnham is now shadow home secretary, while Hilary Benn, another centrist, continues as shadow foreign secretary. Tom Watson, the deputy leader, stated earlier that he disagrees with Corbyn's stance on Trident and NATO.

These are all good signs, as long as John McDonnell is not made shadow chancellor. All self-styled skeptics should be wary of McDonnell, who supports homeopathy and herbal medicine.
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John Macdonnel is made shadow chancellor:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/13/jeremy-corbyn-shadow-cabinet-andy-burnham-labour
 
The next meme out of the box is that Corbyn is terribly sexist in his appointments, but actually he has several shadow cabinet posts ready for women in cooking, cleaning and needlework.
 
I'm playing catch-up here since I'm not British and hadn't been following this closely at all.

This guy seems very hard-left to me.

Apparently a big fan of Hugo Chavez too.

Vice called him "slightly to the left of Fidel Castro".

And noted:
Who is Jeremy Corbyn?
He's a 66-year-old bearded, teetotal vegetarian socialist. He's the kind of guy who's so committed to equality that he allegedly divorced his second wife because she wanted to send one of their kids to a selective school. In short, he makes Bernie Sanders look like, well, Donald Trump.
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And it seems that the policies he favors seem remarkably similar to those advocated in the 1983 Labour Manifesto, aka "The longest suicide note in history". He calls it "a new kind of politics", but it actually seems to resemble an old kind of politics.
 
Question: what exactly is the "front bench"? Articles I read said Corbyn had always been a "back-bencher" until now.
 
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