If Corbyn is unelectable, it's because the Daily Mail and Express are (again) telling people how to think, and they are too stupid to notice.
There is some truth to that. Just the other day one of my Sun reading buddies at work told me that we don’t need an extremist Labour party. I asked him what he meant and he picked out Corbyn. So I asked him what where the extremist policies that he objected to. He was lost for a minute, apart from stating that Corbyn was stupid to state that he won’t press the button (to fire a nuclear weapon).
Of course May who stated she will press the button and would even do so in a pre-emptive attack – well of course that’s not extreme is it?
But what are the papers doing? They are running with the anti-Corbyn Labour MP’s. It’s Labour’s own MP’s who have portrayed the moderate and sensible Corbyn, a man who really will stand up for ordinary people, as an extremist.
I’d ask you mtread who is the most hated politician (as far as the press are concerned) in the UK in recent history. I’ll tell you - Alex Salmond. Years of full on nasty vitriolic attacks from just about every major newspaper in the UK. Nor is Salmond’s persona as a leader particularly fantastic. A fantastically intelligent and cleaver man, a fine speaker but try as he might, and he has, he’s always just that bit aloof, superior and worst of all smug. On the other hand, he’s straight down the middle, he doesn’t waver, nor does he crumble under pressure, he tells like it is and most importantly of all –
he had the full support of his party.
Despite the full on attacks, Alex achieved the impossible, with the support of his party he delivered a majority in the minority Scottish parliament, and for the first time in history the Scots were asked the question that they were never ever supposed to be asked……………………..
Corbyn looks useless because his MP’s will not back him. Miliband lost a walk in the park election because his MP’s would not back him. A leader cannot take a party to victory with a party full of snakes stabbing him in the back.
In Scotland Labour is a joke. Guess what - Kezia Dugdale the Scottish Labour leader has attacked Corbyn. Labour who once dominated in Scotland will do well to hold onto it’s only seat in Scotland.
We are looking at maybe the biggest Tory landslide in history. And to blame the press is just to deny the real problem.
