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If you talk to Corbyn’s most ardent supporters, it’s not the man himself but the project of democratising the party that really sets their eyes alight

So get out the popcorn. You’re about to see what happens to the neo-liberal wing of Labour — and its propaganda arm — when the workers, the poor and the young get a say in politics.

massive tax cuts for the rich, the crushing of trade unions, deregulation, privatisation, outsourcing and competition in public services. Through the IMF, the World Bank, the Maastricht treaty and the World Trade Organisation, neoliberal policies were imposed – often without democratic consent – on much of the world

A new industrial society will be created and services will cease to be the backbone of the economy

Nearly 100 countries around the world have agreed to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) framework for an automatic exchange of information on financial accounts. But the United States is thus far the only country to explicitly refuse to join.

“85 per cent of a typical doctor’s work can be done perfectly well by a ‘physician’s assistant’ with a fraction of the training or wages. Volunteers would receive pay, training, and legal rights to take time out of their ‘civilian’ life to work for so many weeks of the year in the NHS.”

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We are bamboozled into letting go of our rights as an act of "we are all in it together" solidarity to help the nation recover from the banking crisis. But we will not easily recover those rights when the recovery comes. Even then we will be left with less salary, less pension rights, less workers' protections, less health and less education. All so that those with the most can take more. To be fair to the Tories this is not new - it's been happening for years.

“What that shows is that for the poorest people they have received the same share of government services and the richest people have paid more in tax. I think that is a fair approach to fiscal consolidation.” LIAR. What it shows is that a disproportionate amount of the national income goes to the wealthiest few who control the money and want to keep as much of it as they can get their hands on.

Given that there would be no RBS without government intervention, you might very well think that the taxpayer should have first call on any capital distribution from RBS until the state’s capital distribution to RBS has been paid back, and with interest. Had a commercial partner been found to rescue RBS, we wouldn’t be even having this debate. However, because it was the government that had to step up with taxpayers’ funds – a government wary of nationalising RBS – the bank got very preferential terms. Its shareholders at the time of the bailout, who had been facing obliteration, got to keep a piece of the pie, albeit a small one.

LIAR. George Osborne knew exactly what he was doing and did it believing he'd get away with it.

The European Council - sometimes called The Council - is the meeting of the Member States. It is called the European Council when the leaders of each Member State are in attendance, and The Council when it's the ministers for the policy area being discussed attending. This is the final hurdle any European proposal has to pass in order to become law. Decision-making at this stage is done almost entirely by Qualified Majority Voting. This means the UK Government can vote against a proposal and as long as it receives enough votes from the other Member States it becomes law in the UK anyway. The UK only has a veto to prevent EU laws impacting the UK in a very minor number of areas. If the European Council/Council approves proposals, they become EU law. They will be in the form of EU regulations or directives. If they are regulations the new EU law applies to all Member States without any of those states having to pass legislation in their own home Parliaments. If they are directives, the national Parliaments are forced to change their national laws within a specific time limit to comply with EU law - whether they want to or not.

How can there be a common sense of citizenship and allegiance among the citizens of the EU where (unlike in the US) there is no common language