duke63 wrote:........Jeremy Corbyn would appear to be from another old age of Labour and an era where they never got elected and were roundly thrashed in every election.
Worthy Politicians are (increasingly) rare animals. I suspect that during the era of this Face-ache generation they will bring about some pretty fundamental changes in how we are governed.
This will probably not be an improvement.
However, back yo your last point. John Cleeves, Jesus Christ, & now Jeremy Corbyn.
Perhaps JC will blitz the first round of Labours leadership election, boosted by a combination of Conservatives, disenfranchised "Old Labour" voters, Communists, Blair haters, & then everyone else eligible to vote who notice that the others are all busy "playing politics" whilst he simply outlines his views & intentions.
Then, he will lead a very split party, until he is stabbed in the back well before the next election.
However should he somehow manage to somehow unify Labour, and survive being undermined all the way to the next election, I wonder if he may not actually win.!
He will be offering a totally opposing agenda to that of the Tories, who will either have succeeded in heading us towards re-balancing the economy or will have failed. Either way the effects of their tactics will be felt very heavily by the next election.
So, if they have been more or less successful, people will be feeling more confident in the state of the economy, and hand power to JC as
"it's time Labour had another chance, and our services need attention"
If they fail they will hand power to JC as "the Conservatives have ruined everything, and it's about time we had someone in power who has the interests of the people at heart.
Our saviour; JC.
