<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>I agree with John's analysis and would add that Corbyn seem to me to be analagous to Barny Sanders.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Richard</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:9px;color:#575757">Sent from Samsung Mobile.</div></div><br><br><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: John Levine <isocmember@johnlevine.com> </div><div>Date:06/09/2016 00:05 (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org </div><div>Cc: sarokin@gmail.com </div><div>Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] [Internet Policy] Jeremy Corbyn's Digital
Agenda </div><div><br></div>In article <CACtwzibpBz16OHnfectmfdhn+UEsVkstdtZBaYQJcdhBsVuaeg@mail.gmail.com> you write:<br>>Sorta the UK version of Harry Reid, I guess.<br><br>No, more like a cross between Nancy Pelosi and a mirror Donald Trump.<br><br>As head of the Labour party, he'd become prime minister in the<br>unlikely event that they won the next election. He is deeply<br>unpopular with other labour MPs, and got his position via a grass<br>roots rebellion. Many of his positions are seen as extreme and<br>somewhat loony, like reopening Welsh coal mines to make jobs for<br>unionized miners.<br><br>Unlike Trump, he's been a MP for a very long time representing an<br>economically mixed part of London. While a lot of people think he's<br>barmy, everyone agrees that he is honest and his positions flow<br>naturally from the hard left principles he's espoused for decades.<br><br>His positions are interesting because of his peculiar position, odd<br>man out in Parliament, but very popular with a big slice of UK voters,<br>in this case the alienated left rather than the US alienated right.<br><br>R's,<br>John<br><br><br><br>>On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Michael Gurstein <gurstein@gmail.com> wrote:<br>><br>>> He is the head of the British Labour Party.<br><br>>><br>>> https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/corbynstays/pages/329/attachments/<br>>> original/1472552058/Digital_Democracy.pdf?1472552058C<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically subscribed<br>to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet Society<br>Chapter Portal (AMS): https://portal.isoc.org<br></body>