To want to campaign for my local MP even though I dislike and distrust their leader?

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Am agonising over this. Have always voted Labour with one exception when I voted LibDem. Desperately want to prevent Brexit and to prevent another Tory government. I really like my (Labour) MP for a number of reasons mainly to do with local policies and position on what I regard as important issues. This MP will almost certainly be returned so no tactical reason not to vote for them. I will definitely vote Labour.

I increasingly feel motivated to become politically active and feel almost obligated to on a number of issues. I feel that just voting is not enough.

But I can't get past my distrust of Corbyn for a myriad of reasons. Though the Tories are abhorrent to me, I am lukewarm at best about many of Labour's policies, I consider Corbyn incompetent and untrustworthy and think he has poor political judgement and I can't get past the antisemitism thing or his shilly-shallying on Brexit.

I don't want to turn this into a Corbyn-bashing thread or get into a big argument about national politics: I realise there are lots of sane reasons for voting for him etc, but at a personal level I can't get with his programme.

Question is: would it be hypocritical for me to become an active campaigner for a party I fundamentally support in its "steady state" form which I regard as having gone on a fairly dangerous and hopefully temporary digression on the basis that it will hopefully return to normality in the future? Or am I deluding myself?

If you support the policies and the general ethos of the party then it doesn't matter who the leader is.

No you would not be hypocritical. It’s not a presidential election. You would be campaigning for Labour.

LookAtWhatYouCouldHaveWon this is it though, I don't know if I do. I definitely want a fairer country run along more egalitarian lines. I definitely want an end to austerity etc. I think the Tories are a bunch of thugs. I'm not convinced on Corbyn's economic programme but I do think we need to curb the excesses of capitalism.

But I am troubled by some of his economic policies -- not bothered about nationalisations but I think the idea of seizing 10% of all equities is crazy. His dog-whistle support for anyone who he thinks of as an antagonist of the US strikes me as childish and the way momentum behaves appalls me. I think he's arrogant. And McDonnell scares me. So I'm a long way from being bought into his manifesto.

But the alternative is too awful to consider.

Agree with the others, we vote for a party and ethos not a leader. Having said that i too am a trad labour voter and will be voting Lib Dem this time, hopefully to unseat conservative MP

Thanks everyone -- interesting that there's a near consensus on this. Think I need to swallow my reservations and do it.