Should Corbyn remain as Labour leader?

[Boss]

UKIP won't be 7%. They'll get about 20% if the election was tomorrow.

[aRdja]

18 minutes ago, Boss said:

UKIP won't be 7%. They'll get about 20% if the election was tomorrow.

They’d get 4-8% IMO.

[Boss]

13 minutes ago, viRdjil said:

They’d get 4-8% IMO.

 

20% is overegging it a bit, but they'd definitely get more than 7% especially if May is in charge of the Tories. 

[Jairzinho]

Yes, it depends entirely on who the leader is. 

[sir roger]

4 hours ago, Barry Wom said:

I read this in the guardian from an opinium poll today, it's fucking depressing reading, how the fuck can Corbyn be behind that mental twat? If he can't get ahead of her, labour truly have no chance. 

 

Theresa May’s lead over Jeremy Corbyn, when voters are asked who would be the best prime minister, has halved since last month. Her lead has dropped from 15 points at the end of February to 7 points in the latest poll.

She has 3 or 4 major newspapers casting her as the only hope for brexit and the mouth breathers are lapping it up. Had the misfortune to be picked up by a guy on an airport run who spent most of the journey extolling her amazing resilience and how the Tory traitors had failed her.

 

(The Mrs was meanwhile staring at me in warning, as she was aware that my inclination was to replicate the scene from Total Recall with Arnie and the robot driver.)

[Barrington Womble]

5 hours ago, sir roger said:

She has 3 or 4 major newspapers casting her as the only hope for brexit and the mouth breathers are lapping it up. Had the misfortune to be picked up by a guy on an airport run who spent most of the journey extolling her amazing resilience and how the Tory traitors had failed her.

 

(The Mrs was meanwhile staring at me in warning, as she was aware that my inclination was to replicate the scene from Total Recall with Arnie and the robot driver.)

Maybe it's the people I mix with, bit I don't know a single person, even those who seem to like her, who don't think she's a useless cunt. I do meet lots of people the who are genuinely frightened by a Corbyn government, and not just right wing nut jobs. 

[Jairzinho]

49 minutes ago, Barry Wom said:

Maybe it's the people I mix with, bit I don't know a single person, even those who seem to like her, who don't think she's a useless cunt. I do meet lots of people the who are genuinely frightened by a Corbyn government, and not just right wing nut jobs. 

What do they say when you ask them why?

 

Being frightened of social democracy just seems a bit odd to me. 

 

Or do they think 25 minutes into his premiership he'll have nationalised all bakeries and built gulags in every town?

[moof]

I find the idea that people are genuinely fearful of a moderately left wing government hilarious and simultaneously utterly depressing. 

[Barrington Womble]

56 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

What do they say when you ask them why?

 

Being frightened of social democracy just seems a bit odd to me. 

 

Or do they think 25 minutes into his premiership he'll have nationalised all bakeries and built gulags in every town?

I think most of them think he'll bankrupt the country. 

[Captain Turdseye]

An old fella from my branch was out door knocking in Bury St Edmunds last week and someone came out with a sledgehammer and told him to fuck off because he was from the Labour Party. 

 

Heavy, that. As was the sledgehammer I’d imagine. 

[Jairzinho]

3 minutes ago, Barry Wom said:

I think most of them think he'll bankrupt the country. 

Urgh, how depressing.

[Numero Veinticinco]

10 hours ago, ZonkoVille77 said:

Polls mean fuck all.

Nor will Poles, if we leave the EU. 

 

Nailed it. 

[moof]

12 minutes ago, Barry Wom said:

I think most of them think he'll bankrupt the country. 

Not economists, these people?

[Barrington Womble]

2 minutes ago, moof said:

Not economists, these people?

I think the problem is, here al pretty sure he's not. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

17 minutes ago, moof said:

I find the idea that people are genuinely fearful of a moderately left wing government hilarious and simultaneously utterly depressing. 

Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous. I could go on, and almost did, about the causes of this type of thing... but I can't even be fucked. Let's just end it. Let's all wank ourselves to death. 

[moof]

Just now, Numero Veinticinco said:

Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous. I could go on, and almost did, about the causes of this type of thing... but I can't even be fucked. Let's just end it. Let's all wank ourselves to death. 

Or, even better. Let’s wank eachother to death 

[Strontium]

I am less worried about economic positions and more about basic competence. Although given the hash the current mob are making of things, well...

[Numero Veinticinco]

21 minutes ago, Strontium Dog said:

I am less worried about economic positions and more about basic competence. Although given the hash the current mob are making of things, well...

I think he'd probably be the most able PM since Brown. That's not saying much, because we've had Cameron and May, who have shown themselves to be very incompetent. I'm not overjoyed at the idea, and I'm not filled with confidence by his competence, but government isn't run by one person. The bunch of people on his side are as able as anybody else. 

 

I'm getting more and more comfortable with the idea of Keir Starmer being a leader, though. 

[cloggypop]

1 hour ago, Barry Wom said:

I think most of them think he'll bankrupt the country. 

They should probably stop reading Murdoch and the Mail. 

[cloggypop]

Yeah but he has a Communist bike lads. Let's not forget this. Even if it is a Raleigh. 

[Anubis]

[cloggypop]

14 minutes ago, Anubis said:

This it itself is enough to make me vote for Esther Mcvey. 

[Grinch]

16 hours ago, Barry Wom said:

I read this in the guardian from an opinium poll today, it's fucking depressing reading, how the fuck can Corbyn be behind that mental twat? If he can't get ahead of her, labour truly have no chance. 

 

Theresa May’s lead over Jeremy Corbyn, when voters are asked who would be the best prime minister, has halved since last month. Her lead has dropped from 15 points at the end of February to 7 points in the latest poll.

Because he's stupid enough to come out with shite about bringing a terrorist "home".

 

Thankfully the majority of the British public don't want anything like that at all. 

 

Talk about hanging yourself. 

[Barrington Womble]

9 hours ago, cloggypop said:

They should probably stop reading Murdoch and the Mail. 

ao i would feel pretty sure they don't. and this actually is the problem. there's this idea from the left of labour, corbyn is great and if anyone doesn't think so, there's something wrong with them and not him. but his job is to ensure labour get elected at the next election. we currently have the worst prmie minister in the history of the UK, yet he's less popular than her. if you are someone who wants to see a left wing government and don't think this is an issue, i would suggest your more invested in corbyn than you are in riidding ourselves of this tory government. 

5 hours ago, Grinch said:

Because he's stupid enough to come out with shite about bringing a terrorist "home".

 

Thankfully the majority of the British public don't want anything like that at all. 

 

Talk about hanging yourself. 

I genuinely don't understand this post. It was a regular poll on the parties and the leaders, and corbyn is less popular than may (although admittedly closer than it was just a month before). It has nothing to do with "bringing a terrorist home", it has to do with after everything that has happened over the last few years, he is still less appealing to the electorate than theresa may. just think about that. she is a fucking laughing stock, is completely mis-managing the country, yet the electorate would sooner have her than him. It's fucking depressing. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

6 hours ago, Grinch said:

Because he's stupid enough to come out with shite about bringing a terrorist "home".

 

Thankfully the majority of the British public don't want anything like that at all. 

 

Talk about hanging yourself. 

"He's stupid enough to believe in the rule of law.  Thankfully the majority of the British public are unprincipled bellends, willingly duped by the Mail and the Scum into opposing human rights. "