[Chapter-delegates] [Internet Policy] Jeremy Corbyn's Digital Agenda

[Richard Hill]

I agree with John's analysis and would add that Corbyn seem to me to be analagous to Barny Sanders.

Best Richard


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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: John Levine <isocmember at johnlevine.com> </div><div>Date:06/09/2016  00:05  (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org </div><div>Cc: sarokin at gmail.com </div><div>Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] [Internet Policy] Jeremy Corbyn's Digital
 	Agenda </div><div>
</div>In article <CACtwzibpBz16OHnfectmfdhn+UEsVkstdtZBaYQJcdhBsVuaeg at mail.gmail.com> you write:
>Sorta the UK version of Harry Reid, I guess.

No, more like a cross between Nancy Pelosi and a mirror Donald Trump.

As head of the Labour party, he'd become prime minister in the
unlikely event that they won the next election.  He is deeply
unpopular with other labour MPs, and got his position via a grass
roots rebellion.  Many of his positions are seen as extreme and
somewhat loony, like reopening Welsh coal mines to make jobs for
unionized miners.

Unlike Trump, he's been a MP for a very long time representing an
economically mixed part of London.  While a lot of people think he's
barmy, everyone agrees that he is honest and his positions flow
naturally from the hard left principles he's espoused for decades.

His positions are interesting because of his peculiar position, odd
man out in Parliament, but very popular with a big slice of UK voters,
in this case the alienated left rather than the US alienated right.

R's,
John



>On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> He is the head of the British Labour Party.

>>
>> https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/corbynstays/pages/329/attachments/
>> original/1472552058/Digital_Democracy.pdf?1472552058C

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