'But what they wll vote for is free universal childcare
Affects a small proportion of the population.
free lifelong learning and no tuition fees
Affects a small proportion of the population (hint: racking up OU modules in retirement is nothing like as popular as the middle classes think)'
Grandparents care about their grandkids and about the costs that their hardworking kids are having to pay. They care about the future of the country and are sick of the metropolitan elite who can easily afford all this stuff, when they can't. With insecure jobs and changing technology and increasng automation, people need to reskill and change careers. They want a bright future and education is a way to better themselves. They are aspirational, they want to learn but they are sick of paying through the nose for it while the metropolitan elite can easily afford it.
'nationalised railways
Affects a small proportion of the population (commuters in the south east overestimate their influence) and a large proportion of long-distance commuters work in the finance sector in London, who won't want nationalised railways if you're also nationalising...
energy companies and banks
Nostalgia for nationalisation isn't a thing, anyway.
free social care for the elderly without needing to sell their homes to pay for it'
This is about rip-off Britain. We are sick of being ripped off by the metropolitan elite who can afford it all on their taxpayer funded salaries and expenses. That is why UKIP said they would scrap the rip-off parking charges in hospital car parks. Everybody is sick of being ripped off by these people who are paid out of our taxpayer money.
'cheaper housing
Just like that! And won't that devalue houses that are already paid for, thus making policies about allowing people to inherit more still more confused?'
Most people aren't rich. The metropolitan elite are and they will vote against Corbyn, but most people will see that he offers them and their children and grandchildren a much better future.
'more employment and higher-paid jobs
Just like that!'
Absolutely. QE for jobs, for manufacturing, not for bankers.
'National Investment bank, a clampdown of bankers and investment in manufacturing
Nationalised manufacturing! It's 1985 again!'
Absolutely. There is nothing wrong with nationalised industries if they are managed well. Kick the metropolitan elite and their Guardian mates out of all managerial roles and run strategic industries for the benefit of the people and the country. Employ decent people like Corbyn rather than the Blairite sharks.
'clampdown on corporate tax evasion etc etc
Which the Tories will say as well.'
The Tories will say it but they won't do it because they are probably funded by some of them at their black-tie dinners. The public have learned how to read spin. They know that the Tories, Blair, Burnham and Cooper are spinners and that Corbyn is for real.
'policies the Tories can easily match (announce anything on elderly care, the Tories will match it)'
No they won't because the Tories are just modernising image spin doctors. They don't care about the elderly, they just use them as a card against Labour.
"The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, faces a growing backlash after quietly shelving a key Tory manifesto commitment to cap care costs for the elderly, as experts claimed that the policy fiasco has cost taxpayers up to £100m.
Hunt has announced that the plan to limit care bills from next year to £72,000 for the over-65s and for younger adults with disabilities has been delayed until 2020 – despite the fact it was trumpeted by the Conservatives in the runup to the general election."
www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/25/jeremy-hunt-backlash-axing-elderly-care-cap-policy
Corbyn will change all of this and the Tories won't be able to counter any of it.
It will be Corbyn and the people vs the metropolitan elite, the Tories, the Guardian and the Labour MPs.
If they offer 100-1 for Corbyn and the people, take it, because we are going to win.