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This is a big problem for Labour.
I think the vast majority of people forget why the party was called what it is.
It's about LABOUR or simply everyday working class people and is exactly why choosing the leader should not be left to a few hundred people, even if they're elected.
It's down to the NEC and rightly so.
The fact that so many people dislike Corbyn is obvious to my mind.
It's because the right wing press consistently tell them to dislike him through their endless only ever looking at any downside.
He's a small threat to business, it's as simple as that.
Anyone remember the business community saying the minimum wage would ruin companies?
What a load of tosh/lies that turned out to be and even the tories now see that if you put more money in poorer people's pockets, they'll spend it.
As opposed to putting it in rich people's pockets where they'll just save or invest it.
Ultimately, many of the things that Labour propose are in favour of the working man, (ending the gig economy, serious investment in our infrastructure and privatising utilities etc) so I find it quite ironic that the same people are turning their back on the party.
But that's how people are. You tell them something often enough and they'll believe it.
All said as a lifelong Labour voter who turned his back on politics after Tony Blair had the biggest mandate to actually change things, since the war.
But turned out to be just another tory in disguise.
Which is all so called Labour "moderates" are, imo.
It's why politics is rubbish and no-one really cares anymore.
The main parties are chasing the centre ground and if that's the case, you're always going to come up with similar ideas, with little to differentiate between them.
Big debt or bigger debt is a classic example.
Corbyn threatens that and while I don't particularly like him personally, I don't see how we've progressed much in the last 20 years.
The fact that we have loads of foodbanks nowadays, particularly when we have record lows for ages when it comes to unemployment, tells me plenty though.
Politics isn't working.
In short, yes, it's all media driven. |
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