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Fricking election. Corbyn being thrown under the bus.

219 replies

Lololololola · 13/12/2019 00:07

I did not vote Labour. But I didn't choose not to vote Labour based on one man. I am watching the BBC (so many issues with this tonight!!) and they are all saying it is Corbyn's fault. He is not my favourite person, but FML, how bloody awful that they can be behind him for years and the minute it goes pear shaped, they throw him under the bus. Collective responsibility, people!!

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Durgasarrow · 13/12/2019 03:23

He is repulsive and an anti-semite. How can anyone support him? It is morally reprehensible to vote for him--except that the alternatives are worse.

WatchingTheMoon · 13/12/2019 03:28

Proof of his anti-semitism?

tillytrotter1 · 13/12/2019 03:43

Corbyn played a wonderful game, he is the best thing to ever happen to the Conservative party!

Lizzzar · 13/12/2019 03:43

I think that if momentum don't stop running Labour strategy they will remain unelectable, although Brexit has got to account for much of this vote.

Mummyoflittledragon · 13/12/2019 03:56

Yabvu
He’s a vile creature, who would have stood down long ago had he more scruples. I totally do not buy the principled arguments. He continues to be deluded that Brexit, not he is the reason as to why labour is losing the night by such a landslide. I voted labour for both dh and myself, holding my nose. Labour hasn’t had a strong leader for over a decade.

Inliverpool1 · 13/12/2019 04:05

Yes Blair was a cracker wasn’t he ?
In five years time when labour do get back in because that’s just how it works what are they going to in herit ?

IdiotInDisguise · 13/12/2019 04:29

They should have thrown him under the bus 3 years ago.

knitnerd90 · 13/12/2019 04:56

When you are the party leader you take the fall. Labour is on target to do worse than it did in 1983. There is no other response. There's a lot more wrong here than just the leadership, but he has to go. That's the unwritten rules of politics. He could hold on in 2017 with a hung parliament. There is no way he can stay with this result. He threw himself under the bus.

malificent7 · 13/12/2019 05:39

I like Corbyn but then i am hard left soooo...

ShizeItsWeegie · 13/12/2019 05:40

The Labour Party have long known that JC is stuck in a 1981 time warp and is terrible for the party but have been incapable of getting him to stand down.

Even now he says he won't lead the LP into another election but by extension STILL won't stand down as leader !

This is all on him. He needs to go home, polish his Billy Bragg album collection and accept that the last thirty years have, y'know, actually happened.

itwaseverthus · 13/12/2019 05:53

Horrible little anti-semite.

Answerthequestion · 13/12/2019 06:00

Of course you can blame him. He’s an appalling leader on every level

smemorata · 13/12/2019 06:09

People have been saying for years that they like Labour's policies but couldn't vote for Corbyn. It absolutely is his fault.

user1471510720 · 13/12/2019 06:17

He was a Marxist for goodness sake, he wrote for the Morningstar. Most posters don’t realise how lucky, yes lucky he did not get in.

He would of made everyone, whatever creed poorer within the UK,

Thank God he is going, truly evil man.

theduchessstill · 13/12/2019 06:20

I despair at all the momentum spokespeople claiming it's all Brexit and nothing to do with him.

He deserves every bit of vitriol coming his way - when Labour lose so do the poor.

Have seen on Twitter the ridiculous Richard Burgeon claiming that between 1997-2010 Labour lost 5 million votes! What a disgraceful thing to say tonight of all nights - if it was tonight he said it - someone retweeted so may have been an old one - but whenever he said it if that's how they're thinking we are doomed to the Tories for a lot longer than 5 years.

tinytemper66 · 13/12/2019 06:24

I didn't vote Labour due to Corbyn. I couldn't see him as a prime minister. He had no gravitas.
I am dismayed at the strength of the Tories' majority this morning but it was a mixture (I think) of Corbyn and Brexit.

ColaFreezePop · 13/12/2019 06:33

@WatchingTheMoon that old tactic? Someone points out that someone's behaviour has been racist so you pretend you haven't read anything in media outlets of all political persuasions over the last two years.

Corbyn is a dreadful leader as he simply cannot lead and has no idea how to deal with problems in his own party. He's a dreadful local MP as he can't even do the basics. Luckily most of his constituents don't have issues they need him to help with so they can happily reelect him.

(Luckily I'm in a constituency where the race wasn't Labour/Tory otherwise I would have had to spoil my ballot paper. )

Fightingmycorner2019 · 13/12/2019 06:34

He never ever once called to me as a life
Long labour supporter

I never heard him say anything that appealed
Or called to me

I have no malice but it’s clear labour need a rethink

Ah well . Brexit here we ducking come

StellaRockafella · 13/12/2019 06:37

Absolutely not. Corbyn is deeply unpopular, and groups of people including Labour party members and Labour MPs were very vocal about this. Corbyn is entirely at fault for their failure. The Opposition weren't good enough, and lead by someone so arrogant that they lost the support of many lifelong Labour voters. I have no sympathy.

HandsOffMyRights · 13/12/2019 06:43

He only has himself to blame.
Abbot too.

The pair of them have openly stated - just this week again - that they would remove women's rights and protections under the Gender Recognition Act.

They made bedfellows with Momentum with Stonewall and gender extremists all over Twitter.

He allowed men to steal women's places on shortlists and to hold exec officer postions.

I want a women's officer who represents me, an adult, human female.

So no, I don't feel sorry for a man who thought he would give my rights away to appease other men.

partyhatsoff · 13/12/2019 06:45

Er, IT IS his fault - he’s the leader, and not a good politician INHO. I’m Labour/Green voter and I don’t like him at all.
A different leader would have meant a different campaign and a different result

tinierclanger · 13/12/2019 06:47

Brown, Miliband, Corbyn. Different people, different policies, all lost. It isn’t the leader, it’s the media. Nobody has a chance against Murdoch and co. Literally anybody could be in charge and it wouldn’t make a difference, because they will get slaughtered by the press.

DownstairsMixUp · 13/12/2019 06:51

Proof the press should have to stay neutral at all times. The smears and lies about him in all the papers have a lot to answer for.

TSSDNCOP · 13/12/2019 06:51

I think if it were possible to drive the bus and throw yourself under it simultaneously Corbyn would have nailed it.

Trewser · 13/12/2019 06:52

TSSDNCOP 🤣