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Don't be so sure about Corbyn (he is not the best person to lead Labour, I admit...Keir Starmer would be my choice). The next GE will be on more than Brexit but the Tory record since 2010... austerity, gig economy, NHS and social care...don't write off Labour just yet (though, I would prefer a grand coalition/electoral pact between Labour, SNP, LDs, Greens and PC...that would kill off Tory/Brexit Parties.
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I got talking to a middle age train driver at the pub the other day. We were talking about escalating rent costs and he was saying how awful it is that his teenage son may never be able to buy a home. He was particularly troubled by the fact that “no one in power will ever do anything about this”. I suggested that Corbyn might if he was elected.
Well, the utterance of Corbyn sent this now very unfriendly fella into a flustered mess. Like he was regurgitating all of the right wing headlines from the past three years, he proceeded to yell at me that Corbyn was “the WORST one of the lot! An evil man. A really terrifying man. If he gets in power I’m leaving the country! He’s a terrorist sympathiser! He’s a Marxist you know! He’s a Nazi! And I don’t like Nazis!”
Now, I drank up pretty quickly, but before I left I asked him what he thought of Boris Johnson. “Oh Boris, he’s just a bumbling fool”.
One anecdote I know, but Boris Johnson wins a General Election against Corbyn 100. And I am someone who joined the Labour Party because of Corbyn.
Fyoosh
Tories increased their MPs to get back to the majority they had under Cameron.
Corbyn has lost pretty much all his political good will and benefit of the doubt.
Bar his fanboy's no one actually wants to vote for him anymore. Assuming he has any kind of election strategy, its limited to basically hoping the centerist dads still have enough motivation to drag themselves to the voting booth to cast their ballot against BJ.