Jeremy Corbyn

[jp5]

An absolutely superb choice



For the Conservatives!

You seem to have made that point once already?

And as before... JC is the only candidate that is dangerous to the Conservatives. The rest were unremarkable and would be beaten by anything with a blue rosette.

Why else would they have started on the propaganda wagon so early!

 

[ColchesterFC]

You seem to have made that point once already?

And as before... JC is the only candidate that is dangerous to the Conservatives. The rest were unremarkable and would be beaten by anything with a blue rosette.

Why else would they have started on the propaganda wagon so early!

Would be interested to hear why you think that. I have voted for both Tory and Labour in the past and could possibly see myself voting Labour again if any of the other three had won today but can't see myself ever voting for JC.

 

[TheDiablo]

People who think Corbyn has even the slightest chance of being a PM have very short memories! You've only got to look back a few months!!

Bookies favourite, poll favourite Ed Milliband failed, because when it came down to it Middle England swing voters who decide in the last week looked at 2 things - 1) Who do I trust with my money? and 2) Which of the 2 options would make a good PM?

To have ANY chance whatsoever of winning the next election - these were the voters that Labour need to win back. Absolutely no chance of that with Corbyn! I'd be amazed if he made it more than 3 years. Good luck to him though, it will certainly make politics more interesting over the next year or so.

 

[Hobbit]

Would be interested to hear why you think that. I have voted for both Tory and Labour in the past and could possibly see myself voting Labour again if any of the other three had won today but can't see myself ever voting for JC.

Ditto. I've probably voted Lab more than Con, but it's going to take something very special before I vote for them whilst he's at the helm.

 

[Old Skier]

Coming from you that must be compliment

That's what you have been doing for the past two years.

An overwhelming 85% of people who signed up as affiliated supporters for £3 voted for Mr Corbyn - but he also topped the ballot among party members and trade unionists.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34223157

I might suggest that many of the affiliated supporters voted because they could do it on line. Get them to walk down to a polling station might be a tad more difficult.

 

[ColchesterFC]

Well it didn't take long for the right wing press to start going after JC.........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oosted-Corbyn-s-campaign-coffers-100-000.html

 

[Old Skier]

Well it didn't take long for the right wing press to start going after JC.........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oosted-Corbyn-s-campaign-coffers-100-000.html

You must have heard the speech, the media are just picking on him and his friends.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I might suggest that many of the affiliated supporters voted because they could do it on line. Get them to walk down to a polling station might be a tad more difficult.

Looks like you missed post # 633

 

[c1973]

Well it didn't take long for the right wing press to start going after JC.........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oosted-Corbyn-s-campaign-coffers-100-000.html

No doubt the spin doctors will be hard at work to put him in a positive light over this.............if there's any left that will work with him that is.

Sandinista? It was a decent album.

 

[The Green Fairy]

Storm in a tea cup - after all it is just the elected opposition leader to 'The Management'

Which, quite honestly, in these times means absolutely nothing.

Nothing to see here, move along please.

 

[freddielong]

A move back to old labour and old labour socialist views, the ones they had to abandon in order to be elected.

 

[Hobbit]

A move back to old labour and old labour socialist views, the ones they had to abandon in order to be elected.

If so many think that, and I'm one of them, why do they keep repeating the same mistake - seem to remember Michael Foot was in his late 60's when he was chosen to lead Labour. I well remember Labour drifting towards the far left in the late 70's and early 80's. That saw a number of MP's leave, 4 of which helped form the SDP. Groundhog day?

 

[Old Skier]

Looks like you missed post # 633

No, just suggesting that if it came down to vote for anything significant (like an election) a fair few wouldn't bother their arrse.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

JC seems to have stirred up a bit of fairly desperate Tory comments on here.
How many times have we heard Michael Foot being quoted, he has about as much reference to the debate as Sir Alex Douglas Home.
That was half a century ago.

JC will win back Labour seats in Scotland and Wales, if he can also retain Milliband's recent effort in the English cities he will be a player.
He seems to have energised the youth of England and Wales, something that has not happened in my lifetime.

 

[Old Skier]

Like the muppet before him, without the union block votes he wouldn't be there. Cannot even muster the support or respect of the sitting MPs. How does he expect to lead.

 

[Fish]

I think for as many new followers he may win, he will equally lose just as many, if not more.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Like the muppet before him, without the union block votes he wouldn't be there. Cannot even muster the support or respect of the sitting MPs. How does he expect to lead.

Perhaps by mustering nearly 60% of the membership votes:lol:
The people have spoken, not the MP's

 

[FairwayDodger]

To have ANY chance whatsoever of winning the next election - these were the voters that Labour need to win back. Absolutely no chance of that with Corbyn! I'd be amazed if he made it more than 3 years. Good luck to him though, it will certainly make politics more interesting over the next year or so.

Not necessarily. If he gets the millions who didn't vote due to disillusionment with bland politicians pushing very similar policies, he might mount a challenge even without regaining those lost votes.

 

[delc]

Perhaps by mustering nearly 60% of the membership votes:lol:
The people have spoken, not the MP's

But not 60% of the whole population. Labour activists only make up a tiny proportion of the UK population, and their views are at odds with the generally aspirational majority, who don't want socialist ideals and the country flooded with immigrants!

 

[jp5]

Would be interested to hear why you think that. I have voted for both Tory and Labour in the past and could possibly see myself voting Labour again if any of the other three had won today but can't see myself ever voting for JC.

I see JC as having the potential to both lose and gain a large number of supporters. The interesting thing to see will be whether he can do the latter without so much of the former.

I don't see any of the others being able to garner that level of support. Watched a few hustings and didn't seem to me to be much alternative to the Tories - so if I was a swing voter having voted Conservative, there wouldn't be much to attract me back to the other side.