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Bernie Sanders: ‘I Am Delighted’ By Jeremy Corbyn’s Victory
“We need leadership in every country in the world which tells the billionaire class that they cannot have it all."U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hailed the Friday election of Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party as a promising development in the global fight against inequality.
"At a time of mass income and wealth inequality throughout the world, I am delighted to see that the British Labour Party has elected Jeremy Corbyn as its new leader," Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate, said in a statement emailed to The Huffington Post Saturday. "We need leadership in every country in the world which tells the billionaire class that they cannot have it all. We need economies that work for working families, not just the people on top."
Sanders’ appreciation of Corbyn is mutual. A week before his victory, Corbyn said he was following Sanders’ campaign with "great interest."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-jeremy-corbyn-delighted_55f4b19ce4b042295e369855
People are sharing these images of what Corbyn and Cameron were up to in the 1980s:
...... people have sharing images of Corbyn being taken away by police at an anti-Apartheid protest in the 1980s and comparing them to those of David Cameron in his days as a member of the Bullingdon Club while at Oxford University.
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/people-are-sharing-these-images-of-what-corbyn-and-cameron-were-up-to-in-the-1980s--ZygEn9bkZUl
...... people have sharing images of Corbyn being taken away by police at an anti-Apartheid protest in the 1980s and comparing them to those of David Cameron in his days as a member of the Bullingdon Club while at Oxford University.
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/people-are-sharing-these-images-of-what-corbyn-and-cameron-were-up-to-in-the-1980s--ZygEn9bkZUl
Updated to add this interesting observation from Digby:
Within hours of victory, more conservative Labour members refused to serve in a shadow cabinet under Corbyn.
One had already described a prospective Corbyn win as "a disaster for the party." He's been accused by rivals of trying to "turn back the clock." The "left-of-centre" New Statesman warned that a tilt towards the Corbyn wing of the party would consign Labour to "permanent minority status." Tony Blair (now there's the voice of authority) argued against Corbynistas and, essentially, for more centrism.
Nigel Green of the deVere Group, slammed Corbyn's tax and economic policies as "disastrous" for business:
“He seems utterly determined to drag Britain back to the 1970s, an era in which the UK was strangled by high taxes and an inflexible labour market.
“Mr Corbyn seems so far removed from reality that he is unwilling or unable to accept that if you significantly increase taxes and disincentivise work and investment, people will change their behaviours.
“Mr Corbyn seems so far removed from reality that he is unwilling or unable to accept that if you significantly increase taxes and disincentivise work and investment, people will change their behaviours.
Yet in Old England, Corbyn's policies seem to have wide support among voters. Go figure.
If Bernie Sanders' political insurgency continues to grow, expect to hear more of the same, and a prediction that unless Democrats support more center-left policies, America faces doom. Doom, I tell you.
MORE:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/against-100-to-1-odds-by-bloggersrus.html
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