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That is correct. Corbyn appeals only to a kook fringe base and in doing so has alienated much of the rest.

Don't feel too badly however: In the US the Democrat party has done exactly the same thing and they are their weakest since the 1920s. You might not see this because the Democrat party is an arm of the US media, but it is in fact the case.

Speaking of stuck in the past, these lunatics holding this block party tomorrow are fossils themselves. For the left to win, it has to create endless victims and then divide and conquer. So what better way than to make it look like the National Front is coming.  The left also likes to speak for the victims it perceives, in this case, EU nationals. I am one and they don't speak for me--if I could have voted for Brexit I would have. I would like anyone who supported Remain to explain to me why it's so great to take the efforts of 800 years to beat down the power of the sovereign and House of Lords and then give that power over wholesale to the unelected European Commission.

Sadly far right groups are still very active in the UK. Here's just one of them
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain_First
Remember the murder of Jo Cox MP?

I'm not sure what your point is - however, as you don't appear to be either, that may not matter.

This election needs to be about policies, not people.

If you feel that we need a race back to the post-war years - foodbanks, grammar schools, mistrustful relationships with anyone not on the pinkcoloured map,  / xenophobia combined with  with a soupcon of Murdoch-owned lie pedlars, the boys and girls  in Blue are there for you.

If you want to vote for a party which can include the NHS, the Union movement and an education sysytem which seeks success for everyone's kids as part of their past,  then Labour have similar policies today.

My own hope is that a coalition of opposition groups will take the Tories on and put this country back on a track which benefits us all

It's that stark !

"In the US the Democrat party...are their weakest since the 1920s" like everything else this bears little relation to reality, how quickly you 'forget' that Clinton gained more votes than your man Trump.

FPR I suggest you find yourself a Momentum or Labour meeting to go to and talk to the people there. Maybe then you wouldn't have to quote from a Daily Mail editorial.

This is a festival to celebrate diversity, and to remember times when we have had to resist the threat from racsists, I think this is important at this moment in time, and who knows you might enjoy it.

Its a lovely day, everyone welcome.

I and rather a lot of other Londoners and visitors have something else on that day...

Are we ? Am I missing something ?

The marathon

Good luck

I can't help feeling that debating one (Corbyn) of the many speakers is rather missing the point. There're people of all sorts of political stripes (and none) involved in this free celebration of local diversity tomorrow –with speeches, music, stalls, family picnic area, etc.

It marks 40 years since local people stopped the National Front from marching through our community. As background, there's an interesting write-up of this piece of local history in the Tottenham & Wood Green Journal: 
http://www.tottenhamjournal.co.uk/news/haringey-blogger-how-the-bat...


Speakers do indeed include Jeremy Corbyn (who was there 40 years ago), but apparently also Dawn Barnes (LibDems), Bibi Khan (Wightman Rd Mosque), Sue Hughes (Jewish Socialist Group), Matt Wrack (Gen Sec FBU) and representatives of several local communities and unions. 

It's on Ducketts Common from Noon.

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A lovely afternoon with some rousing speeches and great singing and dancing.

Photos; councillors from the original anti rascist march 40 years ago, Jeremy Corbyn and welcoming appreciation from the audience.

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