Corbyn is unlikeable and standoffish. No one wants to have a beer with him. No one relates to him. He pretends he’s one of the people but isn’t and couldn’t give a straight answer re Brexit preference.
This is just revisionist nonsense. I wouldn’t have picked Corbyn to lead Labour because I’m well aware that the British public is far too right wing to support him. But if you watched videos of Corbyn out meeting people, listening to them, helping them and spoke to the people he’s met and listened to, then you wouldn’t say this sort of nonsense. Compared to the great fridge hider himself, the man who when faced with difficult questions from the public simply lies to them or runs away, there’s no comparison. Johnson is detestable. Stand offish? Unlikeable? Pretends to be one of the people but isn’t? I think you’re describing our current PM.
Corbyn’s personal Brexit preference wasn’t relevant, ever. A good leader represents the interest of the country, not their own preference. Come to think of it, Johnson was a declared supporter of remaining in the EU before he saw an opportunity to benefit from supporting Leave instead. I know which of these stances I trust more.
People have very short memories. Labour under Corbyn exceeded everyone’s expectations in the 2017 election. I remember the shock in the media the following morning. Best gains for labour in decades, and now the worst performance in nearly a century. So it’s patently ridiculous to say Corbyn was the main issue.
This was all about Brexit - the referendum may have had an almost even split in terms of Leave / Remain, but constituencies didn’t. Once you take Scotland out of the equation, which the SNP essentially have done here, the majority of English constituencies voted to Leave, so in the GE they’ve voted for the only party guaranteeing Leave.
Corbyn was the only party leader with a responsible Brexit plan - giving people the chance to vote on the actual plan vs remaining, rather than the existing vote which was based on hypotetheticals, many variables and lies. Some voters wanted a no deal Brexit (even though this was never described as a possibility), some wanted hard Brexit, some soft Brexit, some had no concept of the difference. Many voted based on promises which were then retracted as soon as the morning after the vote and yet many constituencies still want it (a second referendum may have had a very different result).
Unfortunately there’s clearly a large section of the U.K. who don’t want nuance - they want snappy sound bytes, “oven ready” and “get Brexit done”. If Johnson had respected the public enough to tell them what “get Brexit done” actually means (that his deadline is impossible, as revealed last week, and the impact of getting it done and how long this will last) I doubt he would have fared so well, but Johnson does not think the public are intelligent enough to handle this. Corbyn tried, and look how that ended up, so perhaps Johnson had a point. I’ve seen so many people describe Corbyn’s very simple Brexit policy as unclear or unfathomable. That in itself is worrying.
Farage, Johnson etc did an excellent job of convincing people that the EU was to blame for their problems, rather than government policy. There’s a good reason that many of the Leave lies pledges focussed on properly funding the NHS and other public services with the money paid to the EU - that’s not why the NHS isn’t funded properly, though. This government is why. How much has been spent on Brexit so far? Add that to the DUP buy off, and you realise that the government manages to find plenty of money when something is a priority.
Who’s profiting from “getting Brexit done”? It’s not the general public or the economy, that’s for sure, so someone clearly is.
I don’t think that everyone voting Tory is stupid. Plenty of Tory voters know precisely what they are doing, but generally they’re not the people who will be directly impacted by the cuts and damage to services.