Interested in getting Opinions on the performance of Corbyn and Smith in tonight's debate.

[Rainbunny]

I've been reading the Guardian live article but the comments section is basically overrun by extreme Corbyn supporters making insulting comments so I can't get any objective sense of how people think Corbyn and Smith are performing.

Absolutely Corkie

I think labour have to split now too much damage has been done and even if smith wins (which I feel is highly unlikely) Corbyn and his supporters will just rebel all the time as he has always done. It's laughable him telling mp's that they should get behind the person that wins and work together as its something he had NEVER done

I find the whole situation very depressing.

We're back to a decade of Tory government. It's like we are at the beginning of a second Thatcher era. There will be 'no such thing as society' and there will be a brutal widening of equality. Not because the rich will be getting richer but because the well-off will ensure they won't lose out because of Brexit.

The Tory heartlands will protect what they have and anything they may lose as a result of a faltering economy will be compensated by reducing tax contributions, reducing benefits and diverting public services away from the poor towards the middle classes.

For example, moving investment from comprehensives towards grammar schools will provide more state-funded select education to the middle classes, removing the burden of paying school fees and compensating for reduction in middle-class incomes.

New Labour lifted 1.1 million children above the poverty line. The next two decades of Tory govenment could see 2-3 million children and their familes back below that line.

I dont get why this new militant group 'momentum' is trying to take over the Labour party. Why dont they just start a new party and take their ideas to the public at an election? Is it that they think they have to destroy Labour before momentum can rise from the ashes? Seems awfully self destructive!

And, I don't understand why JC thinks a few hundred thousand extremists should be allowed to take over the party against the wishes of the representatives of nearly ten million Labour voters.

I am not a registered Labour supporter and from the outside it just looks like Corbyn is, like Trump, just intent on destroying a once great party and allowing Teresa May to rule for another decade.

That's excatly what be is doing

Happy being opposition and planing the revolution meanwhile others stay in power and run the country

Agree again with Corkie it is very depressing