Jeremy Corbyn: We'll probably gain power next year

[bots]

Jeremy Corbyn believes there is likely to be another election in "the next 12 months" and Labour will "probably" win it with a majority.

"I'm ready to be prime minister tomorrow," the Labour leader told Grazia in what it billed as his first interview with a women's magazine.

It comes as Mr Corbyn's ally Diane Abbott predicted that Labour would take a "decisive" opinion poll lead in 2018.

Most recent polls put the party neck-and-neck with the Conservatives.

But Ms Abbott told BBC Newsnight she expected Labour to "move ahead of this government steadily and surely as next year unravels" and said there was likely to be another election.

Mr Corbyn said another election was "quite possible" in his Grazia interview.

Asked if the public were ready for another election, he said the Conservatives did not have "much confidence in being able to command a majority in parliament" so "I think the country would want an election in order to bring about some degree of stability".

He added: "I think we'd probably win it, with a majority... we're working very hard on that."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42411689

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never count ones chickens Jeremy

[smudgie]

Jeremy Corbyn believes there is likely to be another election in "the next 12 months" and Labour will "probably" win it with a majority.

"I'm ready to be prime minister tomorrow," the Labour leader told Grazia in what it billed as his first interview with a women's magazine.

It comes as Mr Corbyn's ally Diane Abbott predicted that Labour would take a "decisive" opinion poll lead in 2018.

Most recent polls put the party neck-and-neck with the Conservatives.

But Ms Abbott told BBC Newsnight she expected Labour to "move ahead of this government steadily and surely as next year unravels" and said there was likely to be another election.

Mr Corbyn said another election was "quite possible" in his Grazia interview.

Asked if the public were ready for another election, he said the Conservatives did not have "much confidence in being able to command a majority in parliament" so "I think the country would want an election in order to bring about some degree of stability".

He added: "I think we'd probably win it, with a majority... we're working very hard on that."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42411689

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never count ones chickens Jeremy

Here as me thinking he was going to be Britains new top model. :idc:

[Crimson Dynamo]

that is actually embarrassing

:umm2:

[Oliver_W]

If he wants people to think he's ready to be PM, maybe he should give his Shadow Cabinet a dusting.

[Withano]

The hero we all need

[joeysteele]

It's not unlikely, another year of possible strains on this govt.an election could result any moment.

He would only need to acquire a further 15 to 20 seats and while that would not give him an overall majority,one things sure from that,this heartless lot would be certainly gone out of power and he would be Prime Minister.

It's not impossible,now more probable than just possible and I'd like it to come about too.

[Jack_]

ho ho ho-oray

[MTVN]

Remember at Glastonbury he said he'd be PM by Christmas

[Oliver_W]

Remember at Glastonbury he said he'd be PM by Christmas

How long til Christmas? How long do they say "is a long time in politics"?


Regardless, who cares what he says? He didn't come out with it in a random bravado sperg, he was directly asked a question relating to this, and he answered. He's hardly going to say "yeahno I think we have a snowman in an oven's chance" is he...

[Withano]

Remember at Glastonbury he said he'd be PM by Christmas

He clearly meant some other xmas, he doesnt make mistakes.

[AnnieK]

He clearly meant some other xmas, he doesnt make mistakes.

Yeah to be fair I don't think he said which Christmas. I always used to say I would stop smoking on wednesday but never clarified which wednesday. I did stop on wednesday about 5 years after i first said it

[Withano]

Yeah to be fair I don't think he said which Christmas. I always used to say I would stop smoking on wednesday but never clarified which wednesday. I did stop on wednesday about 5 years after i first said it

Wow, true to your word, just like Corbyn and I. I'll give up excessive amounts of takeaways in the new year.

[joeysteele]

Yeah to be fair I don't think he said which Christmas. I always used to say I would stop smoking on wednesday but never clarified which wednesday. I did stop on wednesday about 5 years after i first said it

:joker:Nice one Annie.

[DemolitionRed]

It looks like the city bankers are warming to Corbyn :)

[reece(:]

A true Xmas present :clap1:

[waterhog]

god help us if jezza gets in.

[DemolitionRed]

god help us if jezza gets in.

why?

[Tom4784]

It's a fair prediction. The current government is flailing and despite the desperation of the right, Corbyn is only getting more support. If an election was called as things stand, Labour would easily get the majority, I think.

[Kizzy]

And not a minute too soon!

[Northern Monkey]

It’s very possible but personally i think it’d be very close between a repeat of the current situation or Labour but with no majority.

[Alf]

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[jet]

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Good one, Sir Alf :joker:

And a great gift for his super fans, at only £20:

https://www.notonthehighstreet.com/twistedtwee/product/corbyn-political-pants?istCompanyId=aa76f5e6-d733-4e56-8409-574cea196cc9&istItemId=xmtmqmaiqx&istBid=t&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_orG45uZ2AIVU5SyCh1alQW2EAQYBSAB EgIvw_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CMfE9OabmdgCFdi3GwodM2MDdw

[Withano]

This Christmas, take a stand by buying Jeremy Corbyn throw-pillows

Link me

[smudgie]

Good one, Sir Alf :joker:

And a great gift for his super fans, at only £20:

https://www.notonthehighstreet.com/twistedtwee/product/corbyn-political-pants?istCompanyId=aa76f5e6-d733-4e56-8409-574cea196cc9&istItemId=xmtmqmaiqx&istBid=t&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_orG45uZ2AIVU5SyCh1alQW2EAQYBSAB EgIvw_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CMfE9OabmdgCFdi3GwodM2MDdw

Dear god, talk about passion killers, me fellas bits covered in Catweazle. :yuk:

[Oliver_W]

Dear god, talk about passion killers, me fellas bits covered in Catweazle. :yuk:

I can't imagine the people who'd wear them have to worry about killing passion, tbh

[joeysteele]

It's a fair prediction. The current government is flailing and despite the desperation of the right, Corbyn is only getting more support. If an election was called as things stand, Labour would easily get the majority, I think.

Absolutely.

Labour would more than likely take those few more seats, at the very least, they need to drag the Cons under 300 seats.

That would,with the universal anti Con vote of other Parties,aside from the extremist DUP, ensure not a hope of the Cons remaining in power.

Corbyn has turned out not to be the joke which the PM,the Cons and their hardline supporters took him for.
This election past in June,in fact cemented him as a formidable opponent on the campaign trail.

Something they hate and the more they demonstrate that hate,the more support they help bring to him and Labour.

[bots]

Lets look at Theresa, she thought she was going to win the last election easily .... what happened.

Lets look at Neil Kinnock, he had concerts celebrating his win before the election .... what happened.

Anyone that assumes they have won is asking for a long fall.

[joeysteele]

Jeremy Corbyn hasn't said he'd 'certainly' win it,he said probably.
Theresa May did do just enough to ensure being able to hold onto power.
Her expectation of a far greater win was dashed admittedly.

Neil Kinnock never had Labour decisively ahead, also John Major, came out a pretty good campaigner in 1992.

Confidence however does come through at times too.
Blair knew he'd win in 1997,2001 and 2005 and did so.
This govt. looks a fair bit like the last Major led one.

A lot going wrong,hard issues ahead,scandals and a leader being tolerated rather than strongly supported as Mrs May is just being tolerated.

The last election showed a split between seeing how things go as to the status quo,and the change offered from Corbyn's Labour.

The first real defining opposite choices for decades as to the main 2 parties.
It appears as newer voters come to the age they can vote,that more of them want the change, not the status quo.
I can see why Corbyn can feel he can see he can be PM in an election coming early with a probable,not certain Labour win.
He still shows caution in his hopes.

[bots]

He comes across as a superior, arrogant so and so to me Joey, but we will never agree on Mr Corbyn I think :laugh:

[joeysteele]

Hi He comes across as a superior, arrogant so and so to me Joey, but we will never agree on Mr Corbyn I think :laugh:

I think arrogance is needed at times in politics,of course all politicians who aspire to leadership of their parties or to try to become PM,also need to feel a 'service' orientated superiority.
That can be a healthy and good thing if it's tempered with fairness and elements of compassion.

He should surely never,just to have to please some,be going round saying he and Labour cannot win,shouldn't win or that he should feel or be really inferior to others around him of other Parties.

Oh,and I'm still not a great advocate of Corbyn but I do like and want his policies.

[DemolitionRed]

He comes across as a superior, arrogant so and so to me Joey, but we will never agree on Mr Corbyn I think :laugh:

You see it as arrogance, others see it as confidence.
Cameron also came over as arrogant to many of us but like Corbyn, he was a confident man and people are drawn to a confident leader.

May, like Cameron initially came over as as a 'one nation' leader but unlike Cameron, has gone on to show lack of courage and determination.

[Kizzy]

He comes across as a superior, arrogant so and so to me Joey, but we will never agree on Mr Corbyn I think :laugh:

What's the the alternative, the cold aloof robotic PM we have now?... the 18th century throwback mogg?.... the bumbling gob****e bojo?...... :/

[joeysteele]

You see it as arrogance, others see it as confidence.
Cameron also came over as arrogant to many of us but like Corbyn, he was a confident man and people are drawn to a confident leader.

May, like Cameron initially came over as as a 'one nation' leader but unlike Cameron, has gone on to show lack of courage and determination.


The only determination this awful woman shows is to hold onto being PM for her own prestige,not for the Nation or even for her Party.

I will always admit I'm the wrong person to say anything as to Mrs May,as I truly have strongly disliked her from coming across her in politics.
The most divisive and hopeless Home Secretary ever and in my view a disgrace to be in the position of Prime Minister too.
A position she holds simply because other contenders stood down from the challenge
With snivelling cowards who'd love the position pretending to support and admire her.

I doubt the UK has really ever, post war,been more Ill served by any PM and govt. as it is by this one.

[Alf]

What's the the alternative, the cold aloof robotic PM we have now?... the 18th century throwback mogg?.... the bumbling gob****e bojo?...... :/Biggest insult you've got for Jacob is an 18th century throwback (whatever that's supposed to be?)

[Crimson Dynamo]

The only determination this awful woman shows is to hold onto being PM for her own prestige,not for the Nation or even for her Party.

I will always admit I'm the wrong person to say anything as to Mrs May,as I truly have strongly disliked her from coming across her in politics.
The most divisive and hopeless Home Secretary ever and in my view a disgrace to be in the position of Prime Minister too.
A position she holds simply because other contenders stood down from the challenge
With snivelling cowards who'd love the position pretending to support and admire her.

I doubt the UK has really ever, post war,been more Ill served by any PM and govt. as it is by this one.

well can I introduce you to

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/08/17/01/2B6A17E400000578-3199967-image-m-137_1439772887034.jpg

[joeysteele]

well can I introduce you to

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/08/17/01/2B6A17E400000578-3199967-image-m-137_1439772887034.jpg

I'd definitely rather have Brown than May,any day of the week.
Although I would concede he's another the UK could have done without as a PM.

He at least,in my view, had more compassion than May and this lot in now.

[DemolitionRed]

I don't understand how anyone can support a government that takes so much out of the public purse.
The austerity lie that had us all believing the government had no choice but to pull its purse strings in.
The massive debt that makes New Labour's debt look like a bit of loose change.
The tax haven elites allowed to get away with murder whilst people on benefits have been continually demonized and blamed for our troubles.
The selling off our our entire social system, a social system that is now crumbling from lack of government funds and doesn't know how to work efficiently as a private enterprise.
Cut after cut to local councils.
The abandonment of the North and the utter devastation that's caused.
Shackling ourselves to American ideals so that we too can become just another small version of them. God bless America, a country that sells us Krispy Kreme, McDonalds and a whole array of **** and a country where little old ladies with dementia are dumped on the street because they don't have medical insurance and the average cost of an asthma inhaler is $100 per unit even if you are insured.

It doesn't feel like the last eight years has even affected me but it still feels like this country has been robbed and sold off. Sometimes I wish I was ignorant to what's going on but I'm not and I'm angry.

The economy is going to crash and its going to crash because of the way America is presently running its economy. We, the 'unasked and uninterested' who believe all the Tory bull are going to crash with them, we who resist this model are going down with the ship too, just like last time... but bigger and much more devastating than the last.

I just hope Corbyn doesn't get in before the crash. There is nothing he can do to stop it and we don't need our Labour Party taking responsibility for something the Tories have been drawing us all towards for the last 8 years.

[Kizzy]

Biggest insult you've got for Jacob is an 18th century throwback (whatever that's supposed to be?)

Well no I could add he's a slimy apologist for the corrupt and disgraced ex minister Mr Green too...

[Alf]

Well no I could add he's a slimy apologist for the corrupt and disgraced ex minister Mr Green too...So he's loyal then?

[Kizzy]

So he's loyal then?

Yes but unfortunately not to the general public or his constituents...just the other cronies in the old boy network.

Bent as a nine pound note, as my dad used to say.

[Kazanne]

I'd definitely rather have Brown than May,any day of the week.
Although I would concede he's another the UK could have done without as a PM.

He at least,in my view, had more compassion than May and this lot in now.

C'mon now Joey ,isn't he the one that was overheard calling an old lady a bigot and for the interviewer to get rid of her,he wasn't so compassionate,I don't dislike the bloke but he was a crap PM.