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Iain Dale Clobbering Jeremy Corbyn on LBC Radio Just Now
In the Labour leaders hustings debate by asking:
"What qualifies you as a leader and to be a prime minister."
In the struggle to answer the best he could do was to declare his experience as a select committee leader in 1978 on in Harringay local authority with a budget of 'a couple of hundred thousand".
Iain then accused him of not being ambitious enough after being a labour MP since 1983 and never having left the back benches.
He really wasn't very impressive. At least Yvette Cooper responded to the same question by saying she'd run a multi million pound department in a previous cabinet.
"What qualifies you as a leader and to be a prime minister."
In the struggle to answer the best he could do was to declare his experience as a select committee leader in 1978 on in Harringay local authority with a budget of 'a couple of hundred thousand".
Iain then accused him of not being ambitious enough after being a labour MP since 1983 and never having left the back benches.
He really wasn't very impressive. At least Yvette Cooper responded to the same question by saying she'd run a multi million pound department in a previous cabinet.
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They had the best experience they could in the Shadow Cabinet.
Corbyn has never served in any government or shadow government. EVER.
Tony Blair was what, about forty when he became party leader, and Cameron probably a bit less - late thirties maybe. Neither were that old really.
Gordon Brown was chancellor for 10 years and turned out to be a pretty bad PM.
I don't think there's any correlation. PM is a pretty unique job role.
Having experience is always preferable to not.
Cameron was in the shadow cabinet.
How odd. Didn't hear original 4 way debate but am currently listening to listeners feedback phone in on who won.
Pretty much every single caller and text to the programme says Corbyn won by the proverbial country mile.
Being in the shadow cabinet doesn't give you any experience that would be useful. That's like saying a film reviewer has experience of film direction.
Of course it does. It gives you access to ministries and allows you to gain knowledge of how government works.
Never stopped Ed - he was almost proud he had never had a "proper" job
So what?
I heard it. Did not watch it.
Is it possible to clobber someone as you are reading out a long Love Letter to them??
Wow that was pretty desperate. Who was that guy talking?
Yes, the more callers I heard saying Corbyn was the winner and how he seemed able to speak his mind, the more convinced I was that they'd fallen for the 'Farage' affect. He can speak his mind and communicate more freely because he doesn't have a party line to adhere to like the others.
The question should have been 'never mind if he was the winner, would you vote for his policies?' When they posed this question at the end, one woman, a green party voter in Streatham, said no she wouldn't and the final caller, a bloke who also thought Corbyn was the winner said no as he was a conservative voter!
I listened to the debate and would agree that Corbyn came across the best, mainly because he was the only one who didn't try to dodge the questions. The others just did that boring old thing of refusing to be decisive in case somebody at some point in the future holds them to an actual opinion.
I think Corbyn would be a disaster for the Labour party and certainly for the country, but it is quite refreshing to hear somebody in politics who actually believes what they say.
The Farage affect. Jeremy Corbyn, the left's answer to Nigel Farage.
He did indeed. He rang in quite early on to ask how they'd each vote in a referendum to leave europe. Corbyn was a disgrace. He waffled away but wouldn't answer the question.
Just listened to it.
http://www.lbc.co.uk/nigel-farage-asks-question-in-labour-debate-113371
Quite entertaining.