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?

No it was an advisory referendum there was no need to leave we just needed to push for the changes that were annoying people the most even if they had failed people would have been placated and it would have died down

Cameron was wrong

Possibly because the majority of the British population support Gaza. And he represents us.

Thank you for saving me the effort of writing this.

I have friends who’ve heard him speak at rallies and thought he was wonderful. He had firm support from many within the Labour Party.
I wanted to support his party, but I just couldn’t do it with him in charge.

There was an undercurrent of arrogance. Hard left supporters made social media posts saying things like ‘ are you willing to have a Tory government just because you don’t like Jeremy Corbyn? They clearly knew he wasn’t popular with the general population, and was unlikely to lead his party to victory. For the sake of his party ( and the country) he should have stepped down.

There was nothing about the way he conducted himself that made me trust him.

I’m not a great fan of the current leader, but I don’t have strong feelings of aversion.

Watch the labour files. He was done a number on.

Apparently he's very popular with his constituents because he's a hard working, dedicated MP. His majority at the last election was over 7,000.

He's an activist, regularly joining marches from the 60s against social injustice and for civil rights. He votes with this in mind, and has stood firm against contentious issues such as the invasion of Iraq, of which he was a vocal opponent.

He's an old fashioned socialist; he wants renationalisation, redistribution of wealth, to tackle injustice and unfairness in society. When he was leader, Labour was the biggest left wing party in Europe. I believe 500,000 have now registered an interest in his new party, which isn't bad for its first week.

I'm just adding an alternative view to the usual right wing shtick.

The majority of the population don't care about Gaza.

The majority of the population care about their own lives and the UK.

Because he didn’t step down when his senior cabinet resigned in 2017. Arrogant, putting himself first.

Also the anti semitism within Labour during his tenure.

This 👆 don't believe everything you hear OP, most of it will be gossip, hearsay, and slander. Fact check for yourself.

So that is why social media is awash, there are protests in the streets, bands / singers supporting Gaza are experiencing otherwise unwarranted popularity.

Keep telling yourself that.

I think you're in a bubble. And your algorithm is showing you what you want to see. Sorry. People have their own lives to worry more about.

I voted against Corbyn being leader 2x in the party leadership elections.

He was a terrible leader of LP. He communicated badly with colleagues/MPs and ended up undermining them. It was hard for his colleagues to say what LP stood for... Corbyn spent ages being a serial rebel and thought it was fine for people with other views to be senior leaders but as a result, there was no unified message, the MPs often floundered about what 'Line' to take or indeed whether Corbyn would turn up at events he was booked at.

His party's financial plans in 2019 were naive at best, reckless and poorly thought out basically.

He had supporters who were deranged bullies & Corbyn didn't try to reign them in. He has consorted with nasty characters internationally & wouldn't recognise that, he shrugged at overt anti-semitism among some of his supporters. He was slow to recognise that women political leaders are especially targetted by unhinged haters.

For a guy supposedly supporting Woke, his shadow Cabinet was rather White Male.

Just about everyone I know holds an opinion on this. Maybe your bubble is apolitical. My bubble isn't.

I believe that poster's 'bubble' is immigration.

Eh? I do hold opinions on this too. But they're not relevant here really.

This is a very MAGA attitude. (Do you think Trump is great too?). It's a very basic and selfish attitude, like 'I've got a few problems in my own family, so I'm not going to help my neighbour out who's just lost their spouse and has 4 children - because that's their problem, v they should have their own friends to support them.' It is also short sighted, because you don't know the effects on you down the line of just supporting yourself.

Politics (and economics) is complex and all very interlinked with different countries. You can't just focus on yourself without having an impact elsewhere. There needs to be balance between inward focus and outward focus, which is what most governments manage pretty well.

As for Corbyn, I think the anti-semite thing gets tossed around too much. He's anti the current government of Israel (aren't many of us, including many Israelis?), which doesn't make him anti semitic.

I wasn't addressing you.

It is not true that he's 'in bed' with terrorists. He is all about peace and resolution through diplomacy, which has meant that he is open to talk with all sides of conflict, in order to facilitate talk. As Desmond Tutu said, (I think) peace isn't achieved by only taking with your friends.
The media destroyed his image with a very successful smear campaign. I don't know how he would have done as leader, but he's a very principled, hard working man and it's a shame to see people perpetuate lies.

No, but you were talking about me in a public, open forum. If not, why quote me?

He was up against David Cameron and the contrast in leadership was huge. I think I see that more now than at the time because David Cameron was probably the last real grown up leader the Conservative party has had, actually no Tereasa May was a grown up as well to be fair. JC was too woolly on what exactly the labour party was trying to achieve, other than being 'in opposition' I get the impression he is the kind of person who enjoys being in opposition more than being in power.

This is so true about the media smear, but the thing that infuriated me is that he never spoke out to correct people! He would be doing an interview, they would bring up something outrageous, and he somehow completely failed to put anyone straight. I think that was arrogance tbh, he knew it was a lie and decided it wasn't worth acknowledging, but its what the people voting for him were being fed.

I was referring to the poster you were communicating with. That's why I said 'that poster' instead of addressing you directly.

You can't assume that everyone in the country is obsessed with Gaza though over and above any interest in any other conflict in the World eg Ukraine (which is far more relevant to the UK). And over and above any interest in their own lives. If people are struggling here, wouldn't they want the UK PM to focus on the UK?.

Lots of us also very concerned about Ukraine of course. As well as UK education, housing, COL.

It's possible to hold multiple opinions at once.

I think he's saying you are obsessed with immigration? Bit weird. I can't see anything you've said relating to that.

As pp have said, he's antisemitic, pro terrorist.

Also he thinks there's a magic money tree to fund his ideas.