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Originally Posted by Damien
Well we'll see if the public go for him at the General Election. I don't actually think the public care that much until an election is actually upon us and usually just go about their lives without worrying about the internal dynamics of a leadership election.
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If he wasn't involved no one would be interested, how much interest did the lib dem leadership contest garner in the press
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What I would say though is that their voting patten suggests that they don't much like socialism. Ed Miliband was perceived as being left-wing and got trounced. Time and time again Labour have been punished for this wild swings to the left so I don't see what will be different this time. All of that is without the position Corbyn takes on the Falklands or NATO.
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Ed was a geek who couldn't get his message across, people had to rely on perception as he didn't tell them it properly or concisely
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None of this addresses my point though. How will Corbyn be able to win an Election or even make much of an influence? How is he going to unite the party behind him. People may be sick of party politics but that is still the system we have and the biggest backbench rebel in the Labour party is now expecting the loyalty of the Parliamentary Party when he himself was incapable of doing the same.
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He's already having an influence, Burnham said the other day he'd have as part of his team if he won
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As for the coming revolution in politics. I remember having the same discussions about UKIP a few months ago. The revolution is always coming it just turns out not to reach anyone outside of the echo-chamber of the Internet and campaigning groups.
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That'd be UKIP that got millions of votes, I bet Dave, Tony, Nick and their ilk wished they didn't reach anyone outside of the internet, their day is coming to an end fast.