frigidweirdo
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Yes, but all of that takes time. The party is united, except for a small fanatical Blairite faction that's getting more MSM coverage than they deserve, we have almost 600,000 card carrying members and are the largest political party in the UK. In 2017, for the first time in decades, we've raised more financial contributions than the Tories (most of Tory contributions come from bequests from dead people it seems!). We started 20 points down and are now ahead in the polls. The Tories and Right wing MSM are terrified that there is a sea change coming which is why we are getting all this negative attention. I'm sorry if doing the impossible is not enough for you, unfortunately miracles take a bit longer.What more stupid things do the Tories dave to?If I were a Tory I wouldn't care about the polls. Corbyn is unelectable unless the Tories do something stupid.
Well that's how bad Corbyn really is. That he's not doing well when the Tories are being so bad, with infighting, messing it all up.
OK, given he was a "new" leader, had just about all MSM against him and "Blairites" in his own party trying to undermine him during the election, I think he did remarkably well. He believes Labour is a "broad church" capable of accepting multiple viewpoints, pity the Blairite faction prefers to try to fight their own party rather than fight the Tories. Maybe Tommy is right, Labour should purge them but if they did, it would just create the impression of a shift to the far-left and another smear campaign.
But isn't the role of a party leader to unite the party, get the media on his side, and win elections?
You're taking all the things he's failed at, and using them to show how well he's done.
Whereas I take all the things he's failed at and use them to show how shit he's done.![]()
The party is united, except for those who aren't united, of course, and it's unable to win elections.
The number of people who carry a card isn't important. It's the number of people who VOTE that's important. It would seem that a lot of people joined the party in order to make the party unelectable.
Being ahead in the polls also doesn't matter. Because as soon as the election starts, people will be like "shit, Corbyn might be leader" and he'll drop like a stone again.
I've heard all the trumpet blowing from Corbyn about how amazing he is. How he'd be PM within a year (that was more than a year ago), the guy is a moron who's making it easy for the Tories.
Had Blair been leader, Labour would have walked the last election.