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Jeremy Corbyn

Visage said:
Indeed. But if you read the comments made by people (who have taken their cue from the RW press) you'd think he was a cross between Marx and Lenin.

So when I refer to the electorate needing re-educating, Im not referrring to pushing them in a specific direction - im talking about providing basic civics education to all schoolchildren. In the same way you can teach RE without promoting a given religion, its perfectly possible to teach kids about politics without indoctrination.

A more educated electorate that makes choices that are informed by a basic understanding of politics (and economics as well) would be no bad thing.

Or we could just go by who is best at eating a bacon sandwich.
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I won't argue with that. I'm not sure how history is taught in schools these days but that subject should certainly offer a foundation for critical view of politics. How then do you engage all? Many adults I know are disinterested let alone their children.
 
...who won the Labour Party 3 General Elections including one post the start of said war
 
I shall vote for Yvette Cooper because i'd like to see another Labour Government in my lifetime, i've got no problem with Jeremy Corbyn, he'll probably get the the crown and he will definitely provide an alternative and rally the rank and file.
Elections are won not by those who are turning up at his rally's but by those who have never heard of him, Labour party MPs have only got themselves to blame for their arrogance by patronising Corbyn in allowing a Left wing candidate to stand just for a bit of balance.
The three Labour MP'S i admire more than any others are John Mann, Tom Watson and Simon Danczuk, all as far removed from Blairism as you can get, all three have reservations about Corbyn becoming Leader if Labour are serious about ever being a party of Government again.
 
The more that Labour heavyweights warn against the dangers of electing Corbyn, the more support he seems to get.
 
North West Wanderer said:
Long may it continue
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Is that meant in a "good, it's about time the Labour party went back to not being a watered down Tory party" way or a
"Good...He's a Looney Leftie and will see the Tories cruise to the next election" way?
 
darlowolf64 said:
Is that meant in a "good, it's about time the Labour party went back to not being a watered down Tory party" way or a
"Good...He's a Looney Leftie and will see the Tories cruise to the next election" way?
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Good in the sense that, hopefully, the Labour party regenerates is core values. Let the electorate have a choice other than Tory Lite.
 
When the gist of Yvette Cooper's speech earlier was "don't vote for Corbyn because that is not a radical choice as he is a white middle aged man like all our other leaders, vote for me because I am a woman, that would be the radical choice" is it any wonder that Corbyn's running away with it? I doubt he'd get much credibility if he campaigned on the basis that he has a beard and we haven't had a bearded Prime Minister for decades.
 
He's got a beard?

Well there's my vote set in stone. #votebeard
 
If the other 3 candidates all genuinely believe anybody but Corbyn then surely they would be better off agreeing for 2 to pull out and having an anti Corbyn candidate for them to all rally round. The 2 that pull out get Shadow Home Sec/Foreign Sec/Chancellor roles if successful
 
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