Corbyn is lovely, why the negativity?

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Really, why?
Just because he's a bit different in his presentation. He in principled and compassionate, I for one wish he would become the PM.

Very weak now on question time

I think hes conducting himself very well.

Batgirlspants I really don't think I can - and I say that having voted for my Conservative MP in the last GE, who was a reasonable bloke doing a fair job of things. He lost his seat but the Labour MP who replaced him is also doing a good job. The Tory runner this time is one hair's breadth removed from UKIP and I'd take Corbyn any day over that lot.

As I say, I'd really rather vote LibDem, but what difference is it going to make? UKIP came third in our ward in the last GE and the LibDems were a full 10 points behind them in the vote share. I know that Fallon is doing a good job of trying to build bridges, and I agree with PP who have said that the LDs are being held to far higher account over the coalition actions than any other party. People are coming back to them - donations and membership show this - but this snap election just does not allow enough time to get ducks in a row

FFS you naiveoids.

I notice you throw insults and make vague sweeping statements, scaryclown, but you don't address any actual points.

And to the genius who said that anyone voting for Labour was voting for a racist and would be judged as such - so you are OK with letting in a party that has Boris Johnson in it, then? Consolidating the rule of a PM who, when Home Secretary, had vans driving around telling immigrants to "go home"? Okay then.

I'm voting Labour because my local Labour MP isn't a racist, and has consistently opposed this nasty antisemitic streak from the likes of Corbyn and Livingstone.

I'm voting Labour because my local Labour MP isn't a racist, and has consistently opposed this nasty antisemitic streak from the likes of Corbyn and Livingstone."

Wish there were more like this.

I have always voted Labour because I have Dennis Skinner and he is a brilliant MP. But I just can't this time. For better or worse we are coming out of Europe and that feeble man will be walked all over. He is a kindly chap who I could have a chat to on a park bench but a hard hitting PM? No chance. We need someone strong and he is not it. Britain will be doomed if he gets in.

Someone posted on twitter that the ideal outcome would be where Labour won more seats around the country but inexplicably lost Islington North!

People of Islington north, your country needs you!

PinkCrystal - spend twnty seconds googling "Jeremy Corbyn links to IRA" and then come back here and explain why it is not problematic that he attended a number of IRA events in the 1980s (ie well before the peace process), or was on the editorial board of a newspaper that was pro-the Brighton bombing (an attempt to assassinate the then PM and her Cabinet)

Batsgirl, I wish I had your confidence. Labour will loose, Corbyn will go, to be replaced by a hard left candidate voted for by the membership. I don't think the Labour party as I understand it exists anymore.

this is JC's tweet on the death of Martin Mcguinness.

'A great family man'?

At best he's an ignorant fool, but personally I think he's much worse than that.

BadTaste- did you see Corbyn's tweet on Hugo Chavez's death, praising him as a contemporary socialist? I'm sure all the starving people in Venezuela right now would beg to differ.

No I didn't but it doesn't surprise me at all. What I struggle to understand is how he ever managed to get to the position he's in now.

If JC is replaced by someone even harder to the left, the Labour Party is finished as the main opposition party.

They say always judge a person by the company they keep. And with friends like Abbot, the late Mcguiness and Hamas, to name a few, you can pretty much tell what sort of person Corbyn is. And to describe him as compassionate must be the most deluded comment I've read in a long time. Regardless, the man is absolutely out of his depth and somehow has managed to blag the leadership of the Labour Party. How did that happen???

I don't think Jeremy Corbyn comes across as lovely. I think he comes across as weak, querulous and stuck in the past. He seems more interested in political infighting that what is best for his party and his country. I won't vote Labour while he is in charge and I have voted Labour all my life.

"Harder to the left"?

A real socialist rather than a champagne one?

Not because of Scaryclown or those who think the Corbyn is lovely.

I will vote Labour in this election because I think beyond the leader and vote for those who work tirelessly to bring about social justice. Corbyn: not in my name.

I'm also renewing my membership and donating. But Corbyn: not in my name.

And tough! Many Labour voters didn't vote in Ed Miliband because they took on the MSM nastiness against him. Heaven only knows what they would think of Yvette Cooper who spoke for what I believe today in Parliament.

Huge applause and to those who opposed the bill. My first vote in 1979 was for the SDLP because they were affiliated to Labour.

And I was voting in Northern Ireland at the time.

Can we stop with the Martin McGuinness hatred? Arlene Foster attended his funeral and her reception was more than receptive.

Vote on policy grounds.
Neither main party is racist. We are a fairly unracist country on the whole.

Elendon - I see a world of difference between people who were prepared to engage with Martin McGuinness et al post 1998 and those who were sharing a platform with the IRA in the 1980s

"Can we stop with the Martin McGuinness hatred? "

No

"Neither main party is racist. We are a fairly unracist country on the whole"

JC ,at best, indulges antisemitism. That is one of the many reasons why I can't vote Labour this time.