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Originally Posted by Damien
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.
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.
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. |
Like I said before, until now Corbyn's been able to get away with his brand of minority guff which the usual suspects lap up with alacrity. If he becomes leader all that is going to change and he's going to be exposed for the dinosaur he is. He's enjoyed relative anonymity until now and rather like an ineffectual opposition, such as the Tories post 1997, he's been able to say/do things without consequences. That's all going to change and his words past and present start to have serious consequences for him and his party.
I wish him well in destroying the Labour Party and hope that out of its ashes will come a credible opposition willing to take on board life's economic realities and detached from outdated left wing dogma.