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The "they'll be unelectable for a decade" bollocks is so tiring. Yes, that's right, because you all saw the SNP post-referendum bounce coming didn't you, and Corbyn getting elected by a massive landslide.
I think that they keep saying it in the hope that one day they'll be proven right. After all, this line was trotted out about five years ago about whoever inherited the post-Brown economic shithole.
I say a bit from an American paper about how Corbyn is basically going to shit his shorts over taking the oath of the Privy Council in front of the Queen because the experience allegedly terrifies all the Tory old boys. I suspect of all the people who have taken that oath he's going to be one of the least fazed by it. Not because he possesses some unbreakable strength of character but because he has already repeatedly demonstrated his lack of concern about appearances and getting that sort of thing spot on right.
Mind you, I did appreciate the irony of an American journalist backing royalists over republicans.
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Is losing the new winning?
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/09/12/the-newest-trend-in-politics-losing-to-win/
I do hope so. Lots of Blairites have been running around going OH MY GOD HE'S GOING TO DESTROY THE LABOUR PARTY but they don't get it: that's what it needs. Corbyn will never be PM, yes, but the party needs to be destroyed to be rebuilt. It needs to rise out of its own remains like the proverbial phoenix. Corbyn could create the conditions to let new and emerging talent within the party finally have a go at the wheel now all of the old Blairite wooden spoons* will finally move out of the way and let someone else have a go.
The "they'll be unelectable for a decade" bollocks is so tiring. Yes, that's right, because you all saw the SNP post-referendum bounce coming didn't you, and Corbyn getting elected by a massive landslide.
Welcome to the new politics: nobody knows what the fuck might happen next and it's actually quite exciting!
I am also quite excited about Cameron trying his yah-boo-sucks-public-school-debating approach on Corbyn then panicking as he realises it won't work because he doesn't actually give a shit, won't rise to the bait and isn't another career politician who will react in exactly the way he expects.
Actually I'm very excited about that bit.
*Stewart Lee back in August:
Meanwhile, the centre-right squabble about whether to allow leftwing people to vote for an old leftwing man to lead an old leftwing party, or whether to allow it to be led by one of three wooden spoons with faces drawn on them that, if viewed from a certain angle, might look reassuringly like some of the people that are already in power.