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.

No, no, no (and a thousand times no). I find him quite smug and sinister. (Surrey)

But working class people aren't one homogeneous mass with the same views and perspectives, Enthusiasm. As a working class woman I don't find it patronising if middle class people feel compelled to become politically active as a result of seeing the amount of inequality in society - unless they're being actively patronising. I say more power to them. I feel that to resent people wanting to bring about a change for people from a different social class to their own just because they're middle class is just inverted snobbery.

Couldn't agree more apricot. Working class woman here.

Yes, Wales

Says it all.....

www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-momentum-corbynite-ex-used-to-be-labour-leadership-owen-smith-changed-my-mind-a7320296.html

No, South Wales.

Absolutely yes. SW England. I like the NHS would be great is we could stop it being dismantled, love our education system and if there was any way to reverse the fuckery that took place with the railways and re-nationaise them then bloody brilliant, I honestly believe he will do his best to sort out the mess this country is in. Oh and as an aside Teresa May really does look like a Sith overlord and is fucking terrifying.

I am a child of the 80's and Maggie totally fucked us over, I used to vote LibDem, joined the labour party specifically to vote Corbyn in, couldn't vote because of the arbitrary date given for non-voting and he won anyway! Fucking fantastic (with no irony whatsover).

I do however find some of the views on this thread a bit depressing, a bit like Brexit where I assumed the views of my peer group represented the general feeling still mindblown, most of the people I know love Corbyn and would vote him in. Sadly not so round these parts it would seem!!

do the Corbynistas then think that they are going to swing up to 20% of the electorate then so that that they not only are going to have the leader they want but he is also in fact going to win power? is that not in fact a little unrealistic ....

palanca - did you think Owen Smith was a viable alternative?

btw - full disclosure - I am not a 'Corbynista' or a fan of Corbyn. However, I didn't think that Owen Smith was leadership material either. Like the referendum - I was staunchly remain, however Ididn't and don't think negative stereotyping or derision towards Leave voters was accurate or useful.

Re Owen Smith:

my choice - no
viable - possibly
more likely likely to get more votes in a GE - definitely

I may be wrong about the numbers of people who would change their vote, it is just it all seems rather a death wish "optimistic" on the part of the Corbyn supporters

I just had assumed that when push comes to shove most Labour voters would rather Owen Smith in power than Jezza out of power ...

I also wonder how many of the new "labour" supporters at £5 each were in fact conservative supporters who voted for someone entirely unelectable

I generally vote Lib Dem FWIW although for non GE votes I have voted for a right mixture of other parties depending upon what the vote is for ie local, MEP, London Mayor etc etc ....

Think one thing is clear - there is a big gap in politics at the moment. For a lot of people (me included) there is no-one out there representing their views and realistically electable. I do not like the Tory government of the day (and actually could not see myself voting Tory) and I also think the political landscape has veered to the right. Jeremy Corbyn doesn't represent my views either. How do others see things evolving?

More baby boomer bashing on here again. The reason the baby boomers had it so good is because they were in the main raised under labour governments.

Not at all. The main reasons:

• massive transfer of unearned bubble housing wealth well beyond anything baby boomers have done to earn it
• taking substantially more out of the welfare state than they paid in
• the majority of their cohort and those above them voting Tory between 1979-1997
• now wishing to vote Tory again to keep all their housing wealth, pension assets, triple lock and extra non-means-tested benefits, and have younger workers (who won't have any of the same things themselves) pay for it all. Oh, and as a cohort, largely being against inheritance tax and for caps on them paying towards their own old age care (preferring for younger workers to pay, again, for this).

Yep that's me.

Never. South

No.

East Midlands.

apricot not sure what you read in my post of course working class people are not one homogeneous group that is the point. Being mc isn't the issue its a type of mc socialist who Corbyn is so typical of who claim to know what is better for the working class it's his vision of what he thinks wc people want but what I want in life and you might is not the same because we are from the same class it's patronising as is playing down your privilege

I would 100% vote for him.

I think this country needs a real socialist government and a principled leader.

I don't understand why the press always say that he is unelectable and believe so strongly that no-one will vote for some who is 'too left wing'. The SNP surged to power in Scotland on an anti-austerity ticket. If they want it in Scotland why not here?

I am in Cambridge

because Nicola is a trigger jermery is a kitten he's is also a champagin soclist his children go to grammars while arguing they should not exist his shadow health Minster argues against private schools while sending her child to one jermery promotes Diane Abbott because of the sexual relationship sturgeon over reaches and is a bull dog but that's how you get to power to be honest when the SNP asked to become the official oppastion because labour is so infective it pretty much sums it up

No
South east

most of the people I know love Corbyn and would vote him in. Sadly not so round these parts it would seem!!

Most people I know wouldn't (mostly Labour supporters) and I live in a Labour stronghold.

thefishewife so you would vote for him and ignore his views on anti Semitism, the people he has shared platforms with in the past, his failure to condemn his own deputy talking about the death of a fellow MP. is this because you agree with them?

what about Momentum? happy to let a covert group of ultra left wingers who aren't members of the labour party dictate policy?

happy to see MPs who disagree deselected no matter how successful they have been in their local area?

happy to see fellow labour members abused, called red tories, had things thrown at them?

poster mummymeister
No I would never vote labour espically under corbyn

Those points you raise being some of them
PhD is the gift that keeps on giving he can't comand confidence or displine from his MPs my bit was the bold

It's crazy I never thought red ed would look positively primisteral 😁

They gave us eggs and ham with ed we all said no thanks then there soulation is double eggs and ham 😳😳😳

It's like the comrades simply can't compute to win any election you need to win over Tory's ,UKIP voters and SNP and your not going to do that with Somone who looks like a geography teacher and wants to disband the army

Why would any SNP voter vote jc when he's basically a poor mans version of Nicola sturgeon he wishes in his dreams he could be such a srude operator i don't like the lady but she is a political bulldog
Why would any Tory vote for him he's weak and wants to borrow 100billion of the bat it's wonkynomics 😳😳

Why would a UKIP person vote of him he tells them immagration is not a issues while living in the whitest part of London in a 1million pound home dispite the UKIP voters clearly telling him it is a issue

He lectures the working class as if they didn't know what was best for them till he came along I want exactly what jc has my own home in a low immaration area and a grammar school education for my children

But what he's selling is council housing and shit secondary Mordens and more immergation apparently the life he has is good enough for him and his but not for us proles 😕

I would definitely vote for him. (As would DH) we live in South East England

Yes. Norfolk.