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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
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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Interested doesn't translate to electoral success. People are interested in spectacular car crashes. Everyone is following this because it seems crazy that Labour will appoint someone as leader who seems unelectable to the population at large.
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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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Foot? Kinnock? Labour has only really achieved modern success when they've gone for a centrist platform. The Unions appointed Ed Miliband and his dalliance with moving Labour to the left failed in a pretty brutal fashion. Even if we assume this wasn't because of the platform itself but a lack of confidence in the leader how is this going to work with Corbyn? He doesn't appear to come across as a safe pair of hands.
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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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I mean more as party leader. He is clearly having an influence on the party given that he is poised to win the contest. However how will he get the support of his MPs?
What is he going to do when this hype and energy dies down and he has to be at PMQs facing the PM?
What will he do when people bring up Northern Ireland where he wants a United Ireland?
What will he do when people bring up the Falklands with which he wants to share sovereignty with Argentina?
What will he do when the press properly goes after him on the connections to Islamic hate preachers, anti-Semites and the IRA?
This is a guy who has had no senior position in party, has no history of being able to do the type of dealing making and politics required, hasn't got his Parliamentary party behind him and has
no end of interesting things in his past for the Tories and the press to go after him with.
Maybe I am wrong and the stright-talking image will carry him on but at the moment I can't see him surviving until the next election let alone winning it.