Can Jeremy Corbyn win a General Election?
Jeremy has won the Labour leadership to go against the Conservatives at the next General Election. Do you all think he will get the support of the public to become Prime Minister?
Do a vote 262 votes
Yes, he can become Prime Minister
23%
62 votes
No, he can't become Prime Minister
76%
200 votes
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But no doubt the special millennials and snowflakes would claim it was a rigged vote and nobody voted Tory or UKIP or if they did they didn't understand what they were voting for and that we should have a second election to get the right result.
Go Jeremy!
I often wonder if that would be different if the Labour Party had decided to support it's members and accept their choice, worked together as a party to do it's job as the opposition and represent those people who elected them instead of their own agendas - but we will never know the answer to that now!
Safe? One thing I don't feel under this and the last Tory government is safe!
Edited to add I'm a lifetime labour voter who wouldn't ever vote for Corbyn
Labour will not be in power until he goes.
What is the longest stretch a party has been in Number 10?
followed by a full Tory victory with a wafer thin majority over Labour after last year's General Election.
I would say the Tories from when Thatcher won power in 1979 until Blair became PM in 1997
the national mood now is for clamping down on the poor, the unemployed, the disabled, foreigners, blacks, Asians, refugees, asylum seekers, guest workers, Scots, gypsies, clever people, liberals............basically anyone who isn't a chav, redneck or hillbilly or the multi-millionaires who own and run the country and manipulate the zeitgeist
All this 'wanting to improve people's lives malarky' is electoral suicide..............the Brits don't want to improve their lives nearly as much as they want to make other people's lives worse.
Yes but the Lib Dems were as much use as a chocolate fire guard.
In practice it's the radical left who end up making most people's lives worse when they achieve power. The people who are behind Corbyn.
I agree. I was a lifetime card-carrying member, until ultra left-wing loons like Diane Abbot came on the scene spouting their nonsense. Corbyn is a thoroughly nice but completely unelectable politician.
Lots of Labour voters will turn to the Greens or the Lib Dems, and it just reinforces the SNPs position in Scotland.
And of course, the real winners are the Conservatives.
I don't even think he's thoroughly nice either. As described by a caller on Radio 4 I believe he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. He may have that kindly old man look but the company he keeps and those he calls friends would suggest otherwise. His hands may be clean but those just below him aren't.
I don't think we've ever had a radical left Government to compare it with
Anyway that's not the point.........it's whether they can win an election not about what they might do after they get in. I just assume they would all let us down after they get in.
Corbyn will not win an election by being nice and promising to help people.......the British people don't want that, they want clampdowns on everybody but themselves (of course not realising that they are someone else's group to be clamped down on)
Corbyn isn't nasty enough to win an election..........it's difficult to see him playing the race card, the scrounger card, the Scots card etc......so he can't win
Corbyn would fit the bill there.
Yes I agree. Woe betide anyone who needs a routine op. No fast track treatment in a private hospital for you - Corbyn would keep you in pain and suffering for years - just like Thatcher and the other Tories despised by the Corbynistas.
Nor does he want to. Much more fun going to rallies with a 1000 adoring fans hanging on his every word. Being PM? Heck, that's far too much like hard work and he would have to {whisper} make decisions
Anything is possible.....
"The party’s socialist orientation was basically a demagogic gambit designed to attract support from the working class. It organized strong-arm groups to protect its rallies and meetings.
He quickly set about rebuilding his moribund party, vowing to achieve power only through legal political means thereafter. The party vastly increased its membership and voting strength; its vote in elections increased from 800,000 votes to about 14,000,000 votes.
The party came to control virtually all political, social, and cultural activities. Its vast and complex hierarchy was structured like a pyramid, with party-controlled mass organizations for youth, women, workers, and other groups at the bottom, party members and officials in the middle and his closest associates at the top wielding undisputed authority."
(Political party of the mass movement known as National Socialism. Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler)
1979 - present...
IF Labour can get within say 50 seats of a majority and SNP/Lib Dems maintain about 60 MPs between them, he'll be in No 10 I expect.