I admitted that he campaigned well (where was that in 2016?), but he still lost. This was despite May’s weaknesses as a leader being exposed completely by Grenfell and the manifesto which pissed off the Tory core vote. Corbyn also managed to avoid the Brexit issue with there being a significant number of Remain votes out there. The stars were totally aligned for him.
Yes entryists. 63% of members pre 2015 backed Owen Smith in 2016 according to polls.
Corbyn’s poll numbers on a national level are consistently poor.
He would be nowhere near the leadership if John McDonnell saw a way he could get himself on a leadership ballot.
Corbyn is supposed to be the Leader of the Opposition. He has routinely failed at that and is only defended because of people’s ideology.
He will take power if the U.K. economy is on its knees so that he can nationalize the trains and make a few statements on Palestine without blame going his way.
From what I’ve seen this person, albeit 15 at the time, left the UK to join a force the UK were fighting against to fight against the UK. She has since realised that conditions in her new home are far, far worse than her old home and wants to go back to her old home but has thus far refused to condemn the actions of Isis*, including blowing up a concert attended by mainly children and their mothers, but questioning if allowing her back into the UK is disgraceful. Peak snowflake.
*I agree with her that the women and children being killed inside the caliphate is as big a disgrace as the Manchester Arena atrocity.
It’s an example of what happens you govern by frothing right-wing racist mob.
You either govern according to the rule of law or you don’t.
If you refuse to, and instead do away with it when you feel like it, as is the case here, that’s fascism.
That is exactly what revoking the citizenship of a 19 year old woman who has been convicted of no crime, leaving her stateless, is.
It also shows that somebody of colour is automatically deemed by Tories to be less British than a white person. But sure we already knew that after the Windrush scandal.
And coming from a Home Secretary of Indian heritage, that’s incredibly ironic.
Ok I see your point but it is a very emotive issue. Colour is a red herring here I think. I don’t think, for example, the British would have taken back Lord Haw Haw after the war, rightly or wrongly.
Especially because in the last 15-20 years they have revoked persons with dual Russian, Yugoslavian and Australian as well as U.K. citizenship- all of whom were white.
I’d tend to agree with @Sidney here - maybe not as strongly or in as emotive language but it’s deeply troubling that citizenship can be unilaterally revoked. By all means throw the criminal justice system at her but this seems like a very dangerous precedent to set