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Seems to me that there's consistent evidence that Corbyn can't get the job done, that he's unfit to lead the party and unfit to lead Labour to a general election. If this wasn't so, surely he could silence his critics by being effective. The best way to prove your critics wrong is to prove them wrong: to give the speech that galvanises, to land blows against the tories, to make electoral gains. He hasn't done any of this. You can't blame the press and the PLP if NOTHING gets through ever.
(Not to be a bore but good politicians either come up with a better story that the media go for (Blair in '97) or they work around the media and reach voters (Livingstone back when he had his act together). Bad politicians blame the press (Kinnock after he fell over in the tide and shouted 'Well hey'). It's never REALLY the press).
Corbyn's supporters dismiss reality, they imagine a different world in which all evidence is the work of conspirators.
It's the same thinking as Brexit, instead of dealing with the world as it is with pesky stuff like experts and facts and the evidence of our own eyes, let's imagine a different one and go forward on that basis.
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to give the speech that galvanises, to land blows against the tories, to make electoral gains. He hasn't done any of this.
Hasn't he? I've seen good speeches, blows landed and electoral gains.
Admittedly I think mistakes have been made regarding not really laying into the tories when they've left it open to do so.
Dramatic_Hammer
Could it be that this is all part of the anti corbyn scaremongering?
What other options are there for Labour to reunite?
(Slightly off the point- http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/i-am-the-corbyn-supporter-that-many-will-tell-you-doesnt-exist-10413325.html)