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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
No, that's what you want. What we need is Corbyn to be elected leader and make Labour unelectable for at least two decades.
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You need a strong opposition otherwise the Tories will just run riot without ever being held to account. It's not like football teams where you just support your side no matter what. At least for those of us who aren't active members of a particular party.
Daniel Hannan, a Tory MEP, gives such an argument here:
http://www.conservativehome.com/thec...ervatives.html
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Politics depends on credible opposition. Take away the fear of losing office and governing parties become flabby and often corrupt. If my appeal to your patriotism fails to move you, let me appeal to your Tory loyalism. Look at what absence of an opposition did to Scottish Labour in its rotten burghs. Do you want to risk a similar fate for our party?
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Personally I like the idea that Corbyn will move Labour so far left that the centrists break away and form their own party, maybe with the Liberal Democrats or at least the Orange Book Lib Dems, and this new centre-left party becomes the new opposition freed of the more socialist aspects of Labour and the Unions.