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

[WillyW8nker]

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.

Labour are going to loose and loose badly. Catastrophically.

What mummy says absolutely.

And yes women come far down the pecking order in the labour movement, that's clear.

Again as In the 80s we may as well design ourselves to years and fucking years of the tories in power.

Well done all you new Labour Party members. Well done.

Happy prattling about your beliefs while sat around your comfy dinner party tables happy and secure in the knowledge that the tories won't really impinge on your lives. Relive the fights of the militants tendancy while secure in your jobs and pensions.

And to the youngsters. Educate yourselves, grow up. Please

mummymeister

I don't believe that the Labour party are worse for women than the Conservative party, so yes I would feel ok about voting for them. It's not a two party system no, but what are my other credible choices when my priority is anti austerity? Yes I could vote Green, but in my constituency that would be a wasted vote.

Do I think JMD's comments were wrong, yes. Is that a reason for not voting for an entire party, no. Language on both sides has been abhorrent.

And I agree that MP's and MSP's are there to reflect the views of the party and the labour party has shifted to the left. Doesn't mean I don't believe compromise is needed.

alpha

I certainly wouldn't cast my vote on a smart suit or glamorous spouse but the individual policy preferences by that person, hell yes

Don't you care that he condones violence to other elected MPs?

Really that doesn't bother you?

You don't care that he's a racist and an anti Semite?

My bar for PM is higher than that.

miss the tories have had 2 female leaders. What's labour had?

I know it's incredible to be saying the tories are less mysogynistic than labour but they appear to be historically don't they.

All the good strong labour women have gone or been sidelined.

It's disgraceful.

Sorry if someone has already made this point but, unless you live in Islington, you don't get to vote for Corbyn. The question should be "Would you vote for your local Labour candidate while Corbyn is leader of the Labour Party?"

My answer would definitely be yes because, (a) my local Labour MP is a great guy regardless of who the party leader is and (b) if you don't vote Labour under FPTP you are supporting the Tories. Unfortunately, Tories and Labour are the only two options for government (or either of those in coalition with the Lib Dems). If you don't vote Labour, you are, by default, supporting the Tories. If you can live with that... Well, all I will say is that you must have a pretty strong stomach.

Personally, I like Corbyn. I think he's a decent and honest man. But you are not voting for Corbyn, you are voting for your local MP. I'm in the South East.

No.
South Yorkshire

Hi mummymeister. It wasn't a response to anyone on this thread. Apologies that it sounded that way. It was a meant as a comment on the whole trend in UK electoral politics over the last 20 years or so, which has increasingly presented the party leader as absolutely central to the choice of how to vote in a general election. I don't know who is more to blame -- the parties themselves or the media coverage.

No, never, and I'm a floating voter who labour needs to win over

I'm oooop north.

This time I think I will vote for the best candidate rather than the best leader, which here will be the lib dem one.

I'm Cambridgeshire btw.

A rascist and an anti-semite who condones violence to other MPs! Those are all totally laughable claims. I'm an idiot even to give them the attention drawn to them by this reply, but, hey, its hard not to repond to slander.

I'm a labour member and I'm seriously considering backing the greens, I really cannot take to Corbyn. I don't feel that he has women's interests in mind and I don't trust him.

I'm late 40s, Labour party member, lifelong Labour voter.

No fucking way will I vote for Corbyn's 'Labour' party. He is a disgrace and a joke and a throwback and a rigid, unpleasant arse and he will destroy the party.

As many others have said we need a credible answer to the Tories. To my dismay, if I had to vote tomorrow I'd actually vote Conservative because I think we need continuity and stability during and post Brexit.

Am ashamed to say that but I can't vote Labour, Lib Dem or Green, I don't believe a jot in any of them and they are not credible opponents for the govenerment.

*Government

You don't care that he's a racist and an anti Semite?

I would care if he was but I don't think he is. Just like I didn't think David Cameron was racist or homophobic or sexist because people in his party sometimes expressed those views.

I also don't think having a female leader is necessary a sign your party is better for women. Austerity affects women disproportionately.

2rebecca
"You can't have MPs going off and doing their own thing outwith the desires of the party."
Remind me how many times JC voted against the Labour whip in the years before he became leader?

"put in to their posts by their party and are there to represent their party, not their own personal views. "
You are aware that MPs represent all their constituents, not just the current members of the local Labour party? And it's just possible that the MPs talk to wider cross section of constituents than the new, middle-class Momentum groupies?

If they want to represent all their constituents not their party they should stand as independents. I don't think they should follow the party whip on issues of conscience but that if you find yourself out of step with the bulk of your party you are in the wrong party.
I'm in the SGP and we're very keen that our MSPs represent the party not just do their own thing. The council of the SGP are involved in deciding bills, positions on issues etc. No MSP is automatically reselected they all have to win the most votes in their area to be put forward at the election. It's party campaigning and finance that help get them elected.

Yes, and I did vote in the leadership election.

Telford.

I don't think he's antisemite. Some people take any criticism of Israel or sympathy with the PLO as a sign of antisemitism.

No, and I am usually torn between Labour & Lib Dems. Would never vote for Corbyn after friends who work in the party resigned because he was impossible to work for.

London.

Yes! Cheshire

Alpha

So you agree that an elected Tory
should be lynched?

You think that language is acceptable in the wake of Jo Cox murder? You think it's ok to not apologise for that remark or sack your close deputy who refuses to apologise?

It's not slander JMD said it and refuses to apologise and JC won't condemn them.

Do you?

Do I think JC is perfect? Of course not.

Do I have doubts about his leadership? Yes - but that's true of most politicians these days.

Ultimately though, as part of a disabled household who has lived and continues to live at the sharp end of the Tories' artificial austerity, including suffering a recent redundancy, and seen my good, lovely, formerly-hard-working husband spoken to like a piece of shit by DWP staff and seen him and his ilk demonised by the media for having the temerity to have become disabled, I could not live with my conscience if I voted Tory or wasted my vote on a party with no chance whatsoever of ousting the Tories. JC has at least demonstrated his commitment to standing up for disabled rights over the years. I appreciate that makes me a single issue voter but no cause is more important to me than fair and just treatment of the most vulnerable in our society.

So please Yorkieheaven, less of the patronising drivel about dinner parties and job security because you have no fucking idea of the reality of my life and others like me.