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Also, https://twitter.com/gentlerpolitics I don't blame Jeremy Corbyn for this, but it's a reality that his leadership has attracted a massive level of abuse and hatred to the party, not known since the 80s. Verbal abuse, threats of violence, death threats. John McDonnell has not been much...

Look back further. He was elected leader of the party in 2013. He led for ages, dipped in popularity and came back. Just scroll down on the Wikipedia article you took that from. Also even at their worst, Trudeau's party were at worst, what, 3 points down? How long are you willing to watch...

Trudeau led in the polls after having been elected leader of his party. You are ignoring the three polls I quoted a few minutes ago because they are telling you of a reality that you would rather not confront. Jeremy has some great ideas. People don't like him. That is the reality.

I think the question is hard to answer, because Corbyn's policies and his leadership qualities cannot be totally separated. Hours after Theresa May was named the new PM, he was not giving a statement addressing this, but addressing a solidarity for Cuba event. At the NEC event, he voted against...

My argument has always been that Corbyn is unelectable. Then you asked for evidence. Now I have shown you evidence that Labour members and trade union members don't think he's electable. They're the core. You need them, and then you need much more after that. Are they lying? Is it a big...

I'm so glad you asked. Exhibit A: Opposition leaderdership ratings after 10 mths: Foot - 32 Kinnock -7 Smith +1 Blair +29 Hague -16 IDS - 9 Howard -15 Cameron -1 Ed M -7 Corbyn -41 Exhibit B: His popularity AMONG LABOUR MEMBERS is now -3% Exhibit C: 70% of Union members don't think...

What the fuck? Honestly, plain as day, he's Culture, Media and Sport Secretary or nothing at all. Foreign Secretary? Honestly. Fucking hell. Best thing that can be taken from this is that Theresa May is legendarily solitary and will actually just mostly ignore him and do his own thing. What...

There is a difference between being electable by the Labour Party members and by the general public. I wouldn't rule anyone out, but I don't think Andy Burnham is particularly popular with his colleagues or members.

I went to Bangkok for about five days, and the heat took a lot of getting used to, but I really liked the fact it's chaotic, and quite rough around the edges.

YouGov poll at the end of June put it at 50-47, re: Labour members who would/wouldn't vote for Corbyn in a forthcoming leadership election. Corbyn's position is not as strong as it once was.

Presented without comment: this morning, on the Andrew Marr show, disagreed that the important thing was to win elections, and asserted again the 'most important thing' was to 'change the way politics is done'.

But, just so we're clear, they're massively different from one another. You do understand that? Or does a person's entire political life mean nothing if they don't like Jeremy Corbyn?

The fact that Johnson's CLP disagree with him doesn't make what he said any more or less true. The central point still stands and needs to be addressed. Also, Jeremy Corbyn has been an MP for 15 years longer than Alan Johnson. Jeremy Corbyn is a career politician. It's been his career for 35...

I first joined the Lib Dems when Charles Kennedy was leader, because I was a teenager who didn't agree with the Iraq war and liked their policy platforms. I left before the general election in 2010, for a number of reasons. I did not like Nick Clegg or agree with the direction he was taking the...

I don't follow that logic, but I certainly have no wish to show you up.

I will retract the 9 months comment regarding you, but I have spoken to a lot of equally verbally aggressive Corbyn fans who are pretty new to Labour. I am not going anywhere, regardless of who temporarily leads the party, Corbyn or otherwise. Jeremy Corbyn represents a lot of members, not all...

Like I say, I was asking him to elaborate ...

As far as I can tell, all I have said in this thread is that Jeremy Corbyn is doing a bad job as leader and someone else should be leading the party. How you extrapolate that, automatically, to 'furthering personal wealth and a derange sense of power' is beyond me. You are projecting a lot onto...

I am genuinely not sure. I would actually like to know. It would appear that he thinks, on first reading, to me, that people that voted Remain are somehow inherently deceitful, psychopathic, or started unnecessary wars in the Middle East. It's not clear. I would hope he meant something else...