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Originally Posted by Chris
I think your glasses are especially rose-tinted this morning.
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Not sure if they're
rose-tinted as I don't want Corbyn to win.
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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.
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My scenario is based on a shift of circumstances which isn't too outlandish. Corbyn wasn't expected to win the leadership and Donald Trump wasn't expected to win the nomination for the Republican nomination. Things we don't expect can come up and cause consequences we can't foresee.
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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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And I think you're largely right but that it's dangerous to assume he
can't win because your thoughts on this seem to be mirrored by the Conservative party and that complacency could cost them.