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.

as a politician, it's his job to win over the main stream media, not berate them for not noticing his brilliance. Being adept at talking to voters through the lens lots of different media is surely a key part of the job description for a politician.

Labour supporter here...He's pathetic, he needs to stand up and fucking do something rather then sitting around like a wet blanket.

He was my MP, he was ineffective, single minded fucking arse hole

As to why some people hold him in a godlike status, I've no fucking idea

I think politics needs hard line lefties like Corbyn and I believe he believes in everything he says- I do think he is who he is. I also think like a pp said, there's nasty side to him and his 'friends'.

I do not believe hard line lefties should be the party leader. I find the idea of him as PM frightening, in a world with Trump, Putin and North Korea madness having Corbyn as PM would make us vulnerable.

I agree OP. I will be voting for Corbyn because of the pledges the Labour party have put together. I wonder how many people slating him don't have to worry about austerity or benefit cuts? Although we all need the NHS.

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This.

The problem I have with him is he has encouraged or at least tolerated a cult of personality based around himself. I happen to like a lot of his ideas and policies but he should have stepped down when he realised he could not command the respect and support of his colleagues. I hold him responsible for the division in the party, which has destroyed all meaningful opposition to a disastrous Tory government.

I've got family personally affected by benefits cuts - I'm not a fan of tories, or labour leaders who haven't got a chance in hell of getting themselves elected, the latter kind are worse - you know the tories are no fans of 'benefit scroungers' but a labour leader that won't get elected is no bloody better help.

I worry about austerity and how it's affecting my family all the time. I still won't vote Labour despite being in a safe seat for them because they have no coherent strategy beyond 'won't someone think of the children' and Corbyn is so hard left he lives in la la land. He isn't exactly struggling himself you know!

Whether you like the man or not, the truth of it is that, in terms of running the country, he is simply not able for it and never will be. Previous posters who likened him to a student who protests endlessly but never does anything have it right.

Meanwhile the Tories will carry on doing exactly as they please, more or less unopposed. That is in no way good for the country.

He in principled and compassionate non supporting and having ideas that killed 100 million people (communism) is not compassionate

I saw Steven Kinnock interviewed this morning just after the news about the election broke - he comes across really well. His dad was a bit of a disaster but I am tipping him as a leader of the future - he's very good.

coldcanary please re-think that.

Vote tactically, to vote against austerity, austerity and more austerity.

A landslide Con majority is going to be a disaster for the majority of the UK.

God I hope Stephen Kinnock gets nowhere near having power in the UK. A self-serving career politician, just like Blair.

Cowgirls - he may well be. I know very little about him apart from who his parents are and that he is (was?) married to the Danish Prime Minister.

His performance in interviews is in sharp contrast to Corbyn though.

self-serving career politician, just like Blair.

That describes all politicians.

A landslide Tory majority may well be bad for the country but who's fault is it that there is no effective opposition party in this country? Jeremy Corbyn's. Preaching to the converted won't win you a general election. Especially if you have a subtext of antisemitism and misogyny

they're pretty much all career politicians now - thanks to social media you can't afford to have said anything less than perfectly thought out at any point. It's what we've created, people that are experts in PR for politicians.

Yeah, he's lovely isn't he? Just like your old geography teacher was lovely.

He was a rebel and yet now if you are seen to not like him you are considered a traitor. I've just been told on Farcebook I'm a traitor because I don't like him. I never said that to anyone regarding their views towards Ed Miliband. So I then posted that I thought he was our glorious leader and that he was himself glorious and was that better?

The answer was yes.

There are about 5 people on this thread who are pro Corbyn and about 120 who think he is awful / unelectable.

For all the anti-Corbyn lot, who do you think you are going to vote for? I'm particularly interested if you were previously a Labour voter.

I think he seems like a lovely, kind, intelligent principled man. But he seems hopelessly naive and is no leader. I'd love to go for a pint with him but I don't want him to run the country. He's lived a very rarified middle class existence and doesn't seem to be very streetwise about the real world.

The question is will Labour start to pick their new leader before election day. As they are on course to lose 72 MPs they might start to panic and it could turn into a rout.

Bring on the Corbyn v May TV debate, and call the RSPCA to complain about animal cruelty.

If you are worried about austerity, if you hate what the current government is doing then be more critical of Corbyn and the Labour Party.

Their ineptness will give a fucking huge majority to the current government and mean that nothing the opposition believes in stands any chance of happening, not even through opposition pressure after losing.

This is because he is a crap leader not because of all us sheeple believing fake news.

Because May and Cameron are 'streetwise' Bill?

Wtf?

I'd like to meet him and have a chat with him, but I doubt very much he would like what I had to say. I'm a Labour voter all my life. Mind you I've just cancelled my subs to the Labour Party last week. Should I reinstate now? I like the Labour MPs and want to support them. I shouldn't be basing my views on one slightly intellectual Labour rebel all his political life person (Corboy has always been a politician and his brother is a massive climate change denier).

He's an ineffectual hard left-wing anti-Semitic twat.

we should all remember that this is a prediction to lose 72 MPs on the back of an already bad 2015 election result where they lost 48 seats.

So when you add up a disastrous 2015 and then the tories finishing the job in 2017 with mopping up another 70 seats labour have a mountain to climb at the next election after that.