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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.
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The electoral gains have been tiny, he boasted about things not collapsing in the local elections. That's a really low bar at a time when austerity had caused the double dip everyone said it would.
The best speech I heard was his apology for the Iraq war. It was great. But it sort of confirmed he's good in righteous mode.
There's probably not much point going over details of how he's not communicating a positive vision. Do his supporters really think he's doing that? Do they think this is it or are they telling themselves there's a more effective Corbyn that'll emerge once he stuck it out and risen above? Or that somehow the electorate will come to its senses and see qualities that are apparent to them (his supporters) and not others?
Fintan
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.