I’m hearing Jeremy Corbyn is going to lose his seat

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If so, this is the election that just keeps on giving.

His refusal to stand down gave us Boris Johnson so it would be nothing less than he deserves.

Yes , seriously. Tragically even. There's plenty of antisemitism still around alas. And homophobia , racism, transphobia no doubt. It is still entrenched where it always has been : the far right.

Well he deserves it. He helped keep Conservatives in power. He's an antisemite. I could go on but I hope he loses his seat.

This. He'll never win. Therefore he'll never be in a position to effect actual change.

And I find it distasteful to want to send a 75 year old to a gulag.

Good. I can’t stand him. 👍

I find it funny that one of his campaigning points is how he will hold Labour to account as an independent MP. Why would they listen to him?

Yawn yawn with all the anti-semitism tropes…. desperately scraping the bottom of the barrel to roll this old one out again

"Antisemitism flourished under his leadership". Slurs, tropes went unchallenged.

https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/10/29/britains-labour-party-suspends-jeremy-corbyn-over-anti-semitism

Failure to act because he felt Jewish people were quite well off.

.... much of it also on the far left. Totalitarians on both sides.

I am not a Labour Party member, nor ever will be, but wasn't it the case that Ed Miliband had misguidedly allowed a new policy that anybody could sign up for £5 and got voting rights immediately, so Corbyn was voted in by a lot of new people who turned out to be Momentum members? And a lot of those Momentum members did their level best to deselect sitting Labour MPs who didn't subscribe to the Momentum world view?

I wonder if I said a load of pointedly anti-Islamic things, and called the Muslim-hating EDL my friends and invited them to the HoP as Corbyn did with Hamas, if people would be so desperate to defend my 'integrity'.

He's anti-Semitic. I don't care how many Jewish friends he has (Jewish people aren't monolith, there'll be some that support him. It's like arguing Trump isn't racist because he values the support of black Republicans).

Corbyn is a disgrace.

I wonder how he feels about his friends in Hamas and Hezbollah now.

They're probably hiding out in his shed.

Me too. He's very passionate about helping his community.

Exactly. Labour MP's are answerable to the electorate. Party members are a small group of self selecting people who are a tiny unrepresentative proportion of the population. Labour members under Corbyn were swelled by Momentum but also other agitators who wanted him as leader because they knew it would benefit the Tories having him there. Just as the Tories shouldn't have their blue rinse brigade of octogenarians choosing leaders, Labour should not have Labour members choosing leaders. The leader has to lead their party of MP's. If he can't engender any confidence in them, he shouldn't have been leader.

I don't see him.thinking any differently towards them now than he did during their other murderous terrorist activities over the years.

That is not at all true. There is plenty of racism and antisemitism across the political spectrum.

I think you are struggling to understand my point

Your point was very clear. I disagree with it.

The world would be a different place if David Miliband had been elected leader of the Labour party.

Hamas and hezbollah, likes to hang with them chatting. Is that his community.

Well quite. I also think there are too many old dinosaurs both in the Labour membership and the Unions to elect a female leader.

I'm in Islington North. The ONLY canvasser at my front door was one for JC.

I do hope so, Jeremy Corbyn is the main reason we left the EU. He didn’t state the Labour Party position. He personally wanted to leave the EU.