Which Century?

21st Century Socialism?

Jeremy Corbyn has set out his election stall by promising “21st century socialism” for Britain, taxing the super-rich, pouring borrowed money into new council houses and blocking arms sales to abusive regimes.

Sounds much like the socialism we were sold in the 20th Century to me. It is still a failed ideology, it is still the politics of envy and spite and it is still totalitarian in nature, so it is still vile, evil and repugnant to any civilised society, so hopefully, Corbyn and his nasty acolytes will live their knee-jerk wet dreams in perpetual opposition, where they belong.

I tend to go along with the not flogging arms to Shoddy Absurdia, mind… The rest of it is a student union wankfest.

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  1. “History may not repeat but is sure does rhyme.”

    Remember ‘tax the rich until the pips squeak’ under Denis Healey? (a.k.a. ‘soak the rich’) Which lasted how long? The smart money will always move an adroit ten steps ahead of the lumbering behemoth of Socialist policies. Socialism is a philosophy that should have been buried in an unmarked grave at midnight long ago. Now it’s continued resurrection by stunted minds only serves as a classic example of hope over experience.

  2. “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
    Margaret Thatcher.

  3. Where else are they going to get the money from to fund their utopia/hell, Osborne borrowed more and put us in more debt in one term than even Labour could do in three, the Croydon money trees are bare…another expert in bribing people with their own money.

    These shysters preach the politics of envy to the usual suspects, young students who know no better because they haven’t been kicked in the bollocks enough yet like the rest of us (their turn will come), assorted ne’er do wells who haven’t got a days work in them and have no intention of doing one either, and unnassimilable immigrants and others who have different agendas entirely.

  4. Corbyn et al will drag us kicking and screaming into the 20th Century whether we like it on not. Its all there! Nationalisation, a focus on manufacturing, trade union power, state intervention into failed industries, a tax on wealth not income, punitive personal and corporate taxation rates. As Bill Sticker says above, the smart money will have left long before they enact the legislation

  5. From Newsbiscuit:

    CORBYN PROMISES FUTURISTIC SOCIALISM

    Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to turn Britain into a socialist utopia where every family will have equal access to flying cars and robot butlers. ‘Everybody will wear silver boiler suits,’ he added, ‘and we won’t need another runway at Heathrow because we’ll teleport everywhere.’

    ‘The Tories want to keep all the robot butlers for themselves. They think the ordinary people of Britain aren’t ready to control objects with their minds, or travel through hyperspace at warp speed,’ Corbyn continued.

    ‘And why should libraries just lend books? In my Britain, the library would be a silver dome with laser lights emanating from it, and you’d go there to use an orgasmotron, a laser disc or a soda stream. I want to bring socialism into the 21st century, by-passing the 20th, which it never quite reached.’

    It isn’t really any sillier than what he is proposing in reality is it?

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