Jermy Corbyn elected

Durhamjen haranguing another poster because they have a different opinion to you is out of order. Are you seriously saying that you shouldn't post on threads unless you have a valid opinion?

And why is it generally the political threads that can get unpleasant?

Ceesnan
Yes, the foody threads never get that way do they?

I'm not too worried if the railways go back into public ownership, or remain privately run, as long as they run properly. I never use them, so will leave it to those that do to debate it.

I think I must be very thick today. Usually I can search a thread and find a post that has been referred to, but I just cannot find anywhere that Ana said anything that would cause durhamjen to say "Can you explain why it's okay for foreign government railway companies to own railways in Britain but not our own government?" and to keep insisting that Ana prefers the privatised railways.

Could you be helpful, please and point out the date and time, DJ?

Thank you.

And there is PQE again! Or qe. Or corbyonics or whatever it is called.
The answer to everything as to where the money is going to come from for anything of course.
Quelle surprise.

Sweeties in a cookie jar. Run out of sweets. Make some more.

We were forced here on the South Coast without any say in the matter to have water Meters. The reason ",not enough rain" . Our water authority Southern Water is officially the worst in the country for leaks etc. So annoying. Good profits though straight into the shareholders pocket.

I try not to repeat myself, but I make an exception when I see this answer to everything.

weownit.org.uk/evidence/railways

Quantitive easing = something used by all governments.

Elegran, Ana said it did not look likely that Corbyn's plan was going to succeed.
The plan was renationalising the railways, or so I understood as that was under discussion.
If not, what plan was she talking about?

Quantitative easing - the route to sky-rocketing inflation.

By what convoluted thought process did my one-sentence post about Corbyn's proposed plan lead you to make all those assumptions about what I think or believe, durhamjen? You do it all the time, and not just with me!

It could be said that most of bank lending is qe. And the Bank of England or whichever body it is now called, does as far as I know control it. Stuff that is done in banks and by banks is not the same as printing money to buy back utilites etc and all the other things that are suggested.
Which I think you understand whitewave. And durhamjen.

whitewave, please explain what you mean by something used by all governments.

You seem to think that Ana stating that she thinks Corbyn's plan won't succeed, is justification for you to subject her to classroom-style interrogation, Djen.
This is Gransnet, remember.

Djen, you need to give yourself 100 lines on this subject.

Is this logic?

"It doesn't look like Corbyn's plan will succeed." So you take out of it that she doesn't want the plan to succeed.

If I say "It doesn't look like it is going to be sunny tomorrow" do you think that I mean that I don't want it to be sunny tomorrow?

It is true, you do this all the time, dj. Someone makes an innocent statement, which you fall on and accuse them of saying something completely different.

I don't accept that Corbyn's policies would take us back to the 1970s because the world has changed beyond recognition. Things can only start from where they are now. The results will not be the same.

I read the Observer article this morning and forwarded it to a select few. There are a few similar pieces coming out now, challenging people to see just how many of Corbyn's ideas they actually disagree with.

So was she or was she not talking about the railways, in your opinions? You seem to have formed your opinions of me! But I'm not bloody well supposed to form opinions about what people say, am I?

You are not supposed to extrapolate from a staement opinions which people they have not expressed - which they even state categorically that they have not expressed and had no intention of expressing.

Yes, she was talking about the railways. She said it looked as though his plan would not succeed. she did NOTY say that she hoped it would not. To use one of your own favourite expressions - surely you can see that?

You can't see it, of course, because you were looking for her to say that she preferred the railways de-nationalised, therefore that was what you read into her post.

Of course, people can post what they want- but sadly if comments are so vague as this:

'Well it doesn't seem likely that Corbyn's plan going to succeed then.'

then somehow people who reply have to try and guess what was meant, and perhaps get it wrong, or come to their own conclusions. And therefore I'd say it would be great if we all tried to make ourselves a bit clearer, perhaps, and avoid misunderstandings.

Oh stop ganging up on jen. Ana can stick up for herself.

sorry for using the wrong thingies there