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to ask if you would vote for Corbyn and what area of the country you are in?

753 replies

WillyW8nker · 27/09/2016 14:43

Just curious as to whether Corbyn's re-election means his popularity is better than the polls suggest and also if there is a divide in the geographical location of his supporters.

So, would you vote for Corbyn if there was a GE tomorrow and what part of the country are you in?

Me: I would vote for him. I am in London.

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Secretmetalfan · 27/09/2016 19:24

At the moment definately not -west Midlands. I am not convinced he would ever compromise his ideology for tge good of the country. He and his side kick are economically naive. I don't think he ever believes he could win a general election and would rather create problems from the opposition. I firmly believe if he ever got in power he would bring the country to its knees. Some of what he says all sounds very nice but couldn't actually be paid for. There is no doubt in my mind that tge amount of people who would actually vote for this man is probably limited to those who voted for him to be leader. This country effectively has no opposition at the moment, what concerns me is where the disenfranchised labour vote is going to go

PikachuBoo · 27/09/2016 19:26

It's becoming increasingly clear how much the LibDems stopped the Tories doing all sorts of horrors. I agree with thecolonelbumminganugget about Tim Farron. I watched several clips of his conference speech last week from Facebook and he talked a lot of sense.

Yorkieheaven · 27/09/2016 19:27

I find any MP advocating violence against another elected MP because they disagree with them more than creepy.

I find any man advocating and unapologetic about citing violence towards a woman, especially in the wake of Jo Cox murder actionable. He should have been arrested and still should be.

FrameyMcFrame · 27/09/2016 19:27

Fizzcat I have had the same experience with abuse from Corbyn supporters.

It's so insulting and patronising to conclude that just because someone criticises Corbyn they are automatically a Tory. It's this part that has put me off voting labour at all.

Yorkieheaven · 27/09/2016 19:28

secret it went to UKIP and will stay there or go Tory I think.

oldbirdy · 27/09/2016 19:29

No. I have voted Labour for over 20 years but never under Corbyn. I don't see a principled man, I see an overly rigid man who cannot abide views other than his own. I don't think it is 'principled' to refuse to resign when you have lost the confidence of those who work under your leadership, I think it is dishonourable actually.

oldbirdy · 27/09/2016 19:29

North West btw

Yorkieheaven · 27/09/2016 19:31

I can't understand how any feminist could support these two vile men but I guess feminism comes low down in the Labour Party these days.

God rest Barbera Castle. She would have shown them how it's done.

acasualobserver · 27/09/2016 19:32

Apparently I am a "Red Tory" now. Fair enough, if someone starts a Red Tory Party I'll join it.

missmoz · 27/09/2016 19:35

I can completely see why people feel alienated and pushed out by the Cobryn movement.

But is that a real reason to surrender our country to the tories by either voting for them or abstaining?? Surely it's better to show support for the opposition and hope a better leader comes along from inside the party, rather than let the tories carry on inflicting austerity on the poor and disabled.

maggiethemagpie · 27/09/2016 19:35

So will I acasual observer... there is a gap in the centre ground now.

mummymeister · 27/09/2016 19:36

Considering some of the things JMD has said and Momentum says and does, I don't think red tory sounds all that bad!

why hasn't JMD been arrested. if he was inciting religious violence he would have been. do women come further down in the pecking order than religion?

latebreakfast · 27/09/2016 19:36

Not a chance, East Anglia.

If you claim to have principles which are left of centre and you deliberately vote in such a way as to assist a right wing Tory government to get in, then your professed left wing principles are not deeply held or meaningful.

Corbyn is deliberately acting in such a way as to assist a right wing Tory government getting in. The only way for Labour to get re-elected is for him to resign. Preferably before any more damage is done to the party.

Momentum are the epitome of the school bully. All sweetness and light when the teachers are around, but savage thugs to those weaker than them when they think nobody is looking. God help us if they ever get into power, it would be like East Germany all over again.

And re-nationalisation...? Really? Does nobody remember what British Rail was like in the seventies? Or when it used to take six months to get a phone connected? I despair...

60sname · 27/09/2016 19:37

Not a snowball's chance. Next GE will see my first ever vote for the Tories.

limitedperiodonly · 27/09/2016 19:38

I don't see a principled man, I see an overly rigid man who cannot abide views other than his own. I don't think it is 'principled' to refuse to resign when you have lost the confidence of those who work under your leadership, I think it is dishonourable actually.

I think you're right oldbirdy. I despair. John McDonnell should be suspended from Parliament and also from the Labour party for that lynching comment and I really don't like Esther McVey

gamerwidow · 27/09/2016 19:38

Yes, London. I voted for him in the most recent labour elections. I don't think he is an amazing leader as such but I think Owen Smith is even worse.
I would never ever vote Tory and lib dems haven't got a cat in hells chance any more so it would be labour whoever was at the top.

2rebecca · 27/09/2016 19:39

I don't think he should have resigned and do believe that MPs and MSPs are put in to their posts by their party and are there to represent their party, not their own personal views.
You can't have MPs going off and doing their own thing outwith the desires of the party. Conference should be the main decision making body of the party withdecisions in between conferences decided by the council of the party at which MPs /MSPs sit but so do ordinary members.
The labour party has shifted massively to the left under Jeremy Corbyn. The labour MPs have to decide if they work with him and give him more time or if they resign and stay as independents. They shouldn't be trying to get rid of a democratically elected leader.
It's not their party it's the members'.

crazycatguy · 27/09/2016 19:39

London. No way would I ever vote for Corbyn. Khan, however I would.

mummymeister · 27/09/2016 19:39

missmoz are you really going to vote for JMD who incites death to women, anti Semitism, a party that deselects people that don't agree with them? really? you feel happy about putting your cross against that name.

why are people so blinkered? if you don't vote labour it doesn't mean you have to vote tory does it?

go ahead and vote for misogyny missmoz but please look at the Momentum website first and also have a look back at the 70's. unelectable labour leader = years of the tories.

BestIsWest · 27/09/2016 19:40

Undecided. Labour Party member. Gower.

Extremely marginal constituency, Tories won by 27 votes in 2015 after Labour had held the seat for 99 years.

It depends on the candidate and any Boundary Comission changes.

LunaLoveg00d · 27/09/2016 19:40

Not in a million years. He's like a throwback to the 1970s.

I'm in Scotland.

AlphaNumericalSequence · 27/09/2016 19:45

I voted for Corbyn in the leadership election and I'd certainly vote in a general election for a Corbyn-led Labour Party.

North east.

I wouldn't call a general-election Labour vote 'voting for Corbyn', though. I'd call it 'voting Labour'.

Even though he is trying (understandably) at the moment to cement his grip in order to consolidate the leftwards move of the party, I hope that in this new Labour era we will gradually come to place less focus on an individual leader and more on collectively determined policies, and on a leadership team.

I'm glad that the Labour Party leaders in Scotland and Wales have just acquired the right to appoint an NEC member, and I hope that Labour does move towards giving PLP members the right to vote for at least some shadow cabinet members.

A leadership team, rather than an individual leader, is a way to move past the creeping presidential tone of UK politics. It is absurd that the momentous decision of which party to vote for is so influenced by which leader has the smoothest spiel or the sharpest suit or the most glamorous spouse, or even by the individual policy preferences held by that one person.

TooManyMochas · 27/09/2016 19:46

Yes from East Yorkshire. Is Corbyn my dream Prime Minister? No. Is he a million times better than any Tory ever? Yes. I like what I see of the woman who will probably be Labour's next candidate in my constituency, and Labour are the only party strong enough to unseat the Tory incumbent (although the Lib Dems are gaining on them).

mummymeister · 27/09/2016 19:49

Alpha a sensible post until your last sentence.

where has anyone, anywhere on this thread said that they would/wouldn't vote for someone based on their spiel, sharpest suit or glamorous spouse. are you a member of momentum?

we aren't all stupid you know just because we wont vote for JC, labour and momentum. vote labour - get momentum.

and I don't like voting for a leader or a party with a shady henceman type group in the background.

do you remember the 70's?

mummymeister · 27/09/2016 19:51

ToomanyMochas are you happy to vote for a party whose deputy leader incited a violent death against women?

is that a million times better than tories?

please have a look at the momentum website to see what you are REALLY getting.

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