So what do we think of the new Labour party leader??

That takes me back!

I have been a member of three unions the SU (now NUS), NUS (now RMT) and USDAW and was the equivalent of shop steward in one of them. I became rather disillusioned when there was a national vote on a strike and the officials at the meeting had strong arm men leaning on some of us to be quiet. I was quite intimidated by two hefty men telling me that I was to keep quiet.

That turned me against extreme views of any form - but I felt a bit better when I got my own back later that year (just using words )

 

This is, wrongly, attributed to Cicero in 55 BC but is still quite apt.

"The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome will become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance."

It was actually written by Taylor Caldwell (female ) in 1965 in her novel "A Pillar of Iron" and it is in that book that Cicero says it.

 

Bit of a non sequitur Or are you starting a new topic?

 

That was not what I said What I said was regarding the NHS, which is what we were discussing, was.....

Corbyn want's the same as all the other Political Parties......the surviveability and viablity of the NHS...........after that, his extreme 1945 policies disagree with all modern thinking.

So does Nigel Farage, but I wouldn't vote for him nor buy a second hand car from him

There are very few things in Life that are "ideal" and nothing in Life is as it "should" be, RB.

 

Exactly right. It's just that nobody can seem to come up with a viable and fair distribution. I think gardeners should get some bonuses.

 

To be honest with you, RB, the NHS is a different subject completely and deserves a better position than in this thread.
But, yes, although I am a Labour voter, I do believe Cameron and most of the Tories want the NHS to survive without being privatised in the extreme way they are portrayed to want, but in a different form to what Corbyn and "let's nationalise everything" view and the "let's outsource" some services services that the other parties, including Labour, would like. But, as I said, the NHS is a completely different and complex issue than the original question of this thread.

 

I'll vote for that

 

I've planted a number of those but they don't seem to bear fruit. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.