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You seem to think his job is to somehow overcome the bias of pretty much the entire UK media sector towards him. Quite how was he meant to do that?
Personally I think he's the wrong person to lead the Labour party, but I have no idea who should, such is the paucity of options.
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Personally I think he's the wrong person to lead the Labour party, but
I have no idea who should, such is the paucity of options.Agreed, unfortunately. I also agree that he has most of the media against him but his view on that is that it's not worth engaging with them and he's better of criticising them - I don't think that's helping.
Also, it's not just a media thing. He genuinely hasn't taken most of the country with him, including a lot of Labour supporters. This is a problem and not one that can be blamed purely on media bias.
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It wasn't the Blairite faction who had an embarrassing, prolonged, drawn out chaotic reshuffle in January where the shadow chancellor told the media why people had been sacked (why would you do that, other than to help your enemies?) and an opposition minister resigned live on TV. At what everyone thought was the end of it all - Corbyn said he had a 'strong' cabinet and attempted to draw a line under the mess - Catherine McKinnell then resigned.
Corbyn has failed to take the Labour party in any given direction, which is rather the point of a leader. I'm a Labour party member who is sympathetic to many of his causes (I agree with him on most things, if not everything) but from any balanced viewpoint leading a political party is not one of his strengths.
Claiming he has done a decent job of fighting the government is laughable. Firstly, and most fundamentally, he has failed to correct the Tory orthodoxy that Labour does a bad job with the economy and spent all the money when they were in power. Both of these things are, by any objective measure, untrue. But they are also incredibly damaging to a political party (it's the economy, stupid). He has also failed to convince Jewish people that the Labour party is not systemically anti-Semitic, which is a great way to lose a lot of votes but obviously much much worse than that.
Generally his approach has totally failed to connect with the wider public and the only people he has convinced are the converted. He has surrounded himself with far-left idealogues, then peered out from his ivory tower of principle with his chums as Britain approaches the perilous rocks of Brexit.
Then, at the last minute, realising we're about to get dashed on said rocks, and that the reality of his anti-EU personal views is that actually we're better in given the huge damage it could do to our economy and frankly, we're all a bit fucked: made a too little, too late attempt to turn the ship of British ship of public opinion away from the rocks of disaster.