Why do people not like Jeremy Corbyn?

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I was at a family lunch the other day with my in-laws and they were all slating the man. However, when I asked why my mother in law could only come up with her lives in an ex council house and she doesn't like his suit.

These aren't attributes I particularly care about in politicians (or really in people in general). I much prefer to find out if they are kind, think of others, hard working, honest etc ...

So! To those who dislike and to those who do... What are our thoughts on Jeremy Corbyn?

Do you like him?

A friend posted this about him a couple of years ago -

‘Around the time Jeremy Corbyn was Labour leader I posted that voting Labour with such a leader in place was morally sickening.

For those who don’t know Corbyn spent his entire political career supporting terrorist groups. In the 1970s and 1980s at the height of the Troubles, that is whilst the IRA were blowing up little kids and scattering their limbs about because they happened to be British, Corbyn was going on IRA organised marches, sharing platforms with IRA terrorists and campaigning for IRA terrorists who were in prison. He combined this with supporting Hamas and Hezbollah at the height of their genocidal campaigns against Jews.

He also took money from Iran, and still does, with all that entails. Right now Iranian women are being killed by a theocratic police force there, which was actually more brutal through many of the years where Corbyn happily took an Iranian paycheck.

Anyway all this was in the public domain. It amazed me that millions of people were happy to ignore these facts. To ignore the murdered children and the Jew hatred and the treason of it all. It still does amaze me. So I posted that people voting Labour, given this leader, were supporting evil, doing evil, being evil. It couldn’t be seen any other way, if you yourself were a moral being. ‘

@SaintGermain To add to that, when he was Labour leader, he refused to say whether he was pro or anti Europe. Given it was a key moment for the country's economic well being, having a leader who refused to be honest and transparent was not acceptable.

We've had some pretty dodgy leaders over the years but at least we knew where they stood on most things.

Pro or anti - but be open about it, and he wasn't. Corbyn is fundamentally untrustworthy. A man of very dubious values.

@SaintGermain who told you this? And where did they source this info?

this is interesting:

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-corbyn-on-northern-ireland

During the Brexit campaign he was extremely non-commital about whether he supported a unified Europe, and mid campaign disappeared on holiday.

People blame Boris but Jeremy was just as bad.

He’s pro terrorist. Also doesn’t like Jews. Not a nice man.

@applegingermint David Cameron and conservative voters in general were to blame for Brexit. Detailed Polling figures at the time reflect this.

I would be careful if I were you. I don't think Corbyn's team are going to lie down and take libel this time round.

No, they gave what the nation wanted. It was the people who voted who were to blame.

A lot of people (myself included) fell for the narrative that he was a terrorist loving anti semite and all around bad bloke. Do I believe that now? No, I don’t and after seeing the shit show of a government we have now I think it’s our own fault for falling for the media hype around Corbyn. That said I still don’t know if I’d vote for him because I suspect he’s got very different views on immigration than I have but I’ll reserve judgment and wait and see what policies he has this time around.

Because he's a fucking idiot?

Many see him as anti-semitic and pro terrorist. I don’t at all (and I’m Jewish). I think it’s important to read information from a range of different sources and make up your own mind. I don’t have a problem with people criticising him (he’s not always good at politician stuff - saying the clever thing in the press to get people to like him) but I do get very tired of people believing slander without reading up on what’s behind it.

Except the youth vote, Labour’s natural voter base, largely stayed at home. Magic Grandpa couldn’t be bothered rousing them to get out and vote. Their vote only seems to matter to him when he’s at risk of becoming PM.

@BeRedRobin
i agree that just over half the people voted for Brexit, Within the 52%, only 37% of labour supporters voted leave. Lib Dem’s and green party also showed majority wishing to remain.

In every news article I've read and any interview I've seen him in, he is always slippery about his actual view. It's always 'his team' who clarify afterwards.

I don't want a PM who isn't clear about his position.

Politics in general has degraded into sound bites over substance. It's very depressing.

Because he’s a rabid antisemite.

He’s a middle class man from a middle class background with a fantasy, Disneyland view of the working class. He seems to think the working class are a loveable misunderstood group of people who need ‘saving’.

His policies are completely unrealistic and silly, and he wants to throw money at everyone who isn’t well off - money that isn’t there.

At the last election, he was proposing free breakfasts and school lunches for all primary children. No, Jeremy. This isn’t a Scandi country with a Scandinavian sized population and Scandinavian taxes. Why should a binman be paying for some Crouch End yummy mummy’s kids’ oat milk?

Another lunatic policy was free WiFi for everyone.

The structural deficit would get much worse if he were ever in charge. ‘Fiscal prudence’ means nothing to him.

He also seems to lack a bit of personal charm (came across as humourless at PMQs) and he’s a poor orator.

I disagree with everything you’ve said but at least you’ve stuck to the politics rather than baseless lies and smears like others.

It matters not a bit that you disagree. This charmless man will never get near office. He’s for students and the Socialist Worker Party only. Oh, and chanting champagne socialists at Glastonbury.

Doesnt it tell you something that the people he’s supposedly wanting to represent have little to no interest in him?

He sides with every enemy of the UK.

Another elderly white man who has some whacky ideas and a thirst for power. We have too many of these as leaders in the world today.

Corbyn is very evasive when questioned about his stance on various issues, which makes him appear untrustworthy. As I don't know him personally, I can only go on how he comes over on the news/media, and apparent untrustworthiness doesn't appeal.

I would prefer someone who is younger, open and transparent, and with fresh ideas for the country. Corbyn's few proposals in past years re. fiscal policy etc. do not align with my thinking and therefore I'm not going to vote for him.

I don't agree with some of the policies he advocates, but my main reason for disliking him was the inaction when Labour party leader and some of the members were anti-semitic.

This. I also believe he holds deeply anti-Semitic views he attended a wreath laying ceremony for terrorists who murdered Israeli citiizens, was a speaker sitting on a stage under a banner saying ‘From Auschwitz to Gaza’ on Holocaust Memorial Day, did nothing about anti-Semitism in his party where it proliferated under him, and supported the IRA and refused to condemn Putin sending assassins to murder on British soil. And he also thinks women’s basic human rights to safety, privacy and dignity are disposable, as he thinks men should be able to go in women’s spaces.

He also had the stupidity and arrogance to try to get a job (PM) he had spent his whole career avoiding gaining the experience and connections for, and then filled his cabinet with his equally ideology led and inexperienced mates. Like he’s running a student newspaper and not a country.

He’s not a nice guy, and he’s not smart and he’s filled with ego and arrogance.

This ⬆️. The IRA also killed Irish people too.