Bishop, I absolutely agree that the way the current Government treat disabled people, immigrants, young people, the homeless and so many more is intolerable.
However, I disagree that the answer is simply expecting the electorate to agree with Corbyn. Politics is the process of winning support from people by, not just saying you do, but actually making them believe that you care about them, that you can make a difference to them, and that you can lead the country.
Frankly, some people could have the best policies, the best ideas and the best solutions but don't have an ability to engage with people and 'sell' themselves as the solution and will never, ever attract enough support to actually get into power and enact all of those great solutions.
That's what I find so frustrating about the current opposition, there seems a complete unwillingness to address why the public seem not to see Corbyn as a capable or competent leader or why so many Labour MP's, who in many cases have worked alongside him for years, believe likewise. Instead, the hackles seem to go up, 'loyalty' is questioned and insults snideness wins the day. That only serves to push more support away and make the likelihood of a Labour government even more remote.
At the same time, the positions which served him well for many years as the Party rebel, including some of the links he has with others and the links they have, seem to have led to a 'blindness' to racism which has both shocked and horrified me. I don't believe that Corbyn himself is racist, I do however believe that he hasn't been able to effectively move to leading a Party of many and varied people, some of who are racist. That in itself to me proves his utter incompetence in leadership.
So many claim to have been politically homeless in the Blair years, and dismiss Blair and Blairites as 'Tories', however, regardless of what you think of some of his actions as Prime Minister, his time in power saw a massive investment in public services, decreases in poverty levels, a reduction in homelessness, improvements in support for disabled people and families and I could go on. Did they get everything right, no, but I strongly believe no one person or even no one party can have all of the answers to the myriad of challenges facing society.
What I do know, is that a Opposition Leader with effective leadership skills would be running rings around our current Government. A Labour Leader with effective leadership skills would be engaging all streams of the parties membership and support in delivering a 'broad church' which would inspire voters of many differing opinions to support Labour. Why is that not happening, at some point the Leader will have to look at himself in that question and stop blaming everyone and everything else. Until that happens, those of us who want and need a Labour Government, and the structures of society we hold deal remain in peril.