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Originally Posted by ntluser
It's no real surprise that Jeremy Corbyn has won because he is obviously popular with Labour party supporters.
However, Labour party voters seemed to have not realised that though Corbyn is popular with them he has to be popular with non-Labour voters too.
At general elections roughly 30% of voters vote Labour and roughly another 30% vote Conservative with the remaining 40% consisting of Lib-Dem, UKIP, Green and Independent candidate supporters.
To win an election it follows that both Labour and the Conservatives have to appeal to members of that 40% group in order to achieve victory. Given that is the case it is unlikely that a hard left or a hard right manifesto will win the day.
So it may well be that Jeremy Corbyn has won the battle to stay leader of the party, but unless things change, Labour will lose the war for the hearts and minds of voters in the middle ground.
It will be interesting to see what changes in policy and action are made as a consequence of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership victory especially as Labour has a major credibility problem with running the economy effectively and efficiently and is viewed by many as a lapdog of the unions.
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Yup. A whole lot of people seem to be deluded about Labour's future under Corbyn. Judging by what I saw on the TV earlier, after the result of the vote, some Labour folks even seem to think he's a great leader but I really can't see how anyone can claim leadership's his forte...
Those who've paid their few quid to join Labour might be patting themselves on the back about this result but the reality is that without all those Scottish seats which used to be nailed on certainties, Labour has to appeal to an awful lot of people who clearly don't like Corbyn's 'new politics' and wouldn't trust Labour with him at the helm or anywhere near it.