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**Chris** · 11-05-2016, 09:24

I think your glasses are especially rose-tinted this morning.

To be doing as well as Michael Foot did at this stage in his leadership, Corbyn should have gained hundreds of council seats last week. Instead, in Corbyn's own words, they merely "hung on". That's what governments are meant to do mid term, not oppositions.

We had exactly the same nonsense throughout the last parliament over Ed Miliband, with people constantly claiming the electorate would come round, would warm to him, just in time for the 2015 election.

It didn't happen then, and it won't happen next time either. The man is totally unelectable, just as Michael Foot turned out to be in 1983 (and no, it wasn't the Falklands that won it for Thatcher, it was nationalisation, unilateral disarmament and a whole lot of other unpalatable things that lost it for Labour, despite three-million-plus unemployed, industrial unrest and a floundering economy).

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,134	Re: Corbyn's kerfuffle I think your glasses are especially rose-tinted this morning. To be doing as well as Michael Foot did at this stage in his leadership, Corbyn should have gained hundreds of council seats last week. Instead, in Corbyn's own words, they merely "hung on". That's what governments are meant to do mid term, not oppositions. We had exactly the same nonsense throughout the last parliament over Ed Miliband, with people constantly claiming the electorate would come round, would warm to him, just in time for the 2015 election. It didn't happen then, and it won't happen next time either. The man is totally unelectable, just as Michael Foot turned out to be in 1983 (and no, it wasn't the Falklands that won it for Thatcher, it was nationalisation, unilateral disarmament and a whole lot of other unpalatable things that lost it for Labour, despite three-million-plus unemployed, industrial unrest and a floundering economy).