I suspect a lot of those whose belief in Corbyn's novelty value led them to vote him in will find their faith sorely tested over the coming months.
As for your scaremongering terrorist tales, keep them coming it clearly is not doing us any harm.
Just wondering what your current opinion of Corbyn is, B2R? Still behind him?
Me and the majority of the Labour grass roots membership. ££$
I do think he's been treated abysmally by his MPs.
Been thinking about that, Dave. On the face of it, it seems only right that MPs support their leader through thick and thin, as it were. Buty I suspect there are two main reasons why things have turned out as they have done.
The first is simply that MPs want to keep their jobs. There's a general feeling that Corbyn doesn't have national appeal, yet remains content to keep voicing the policies which nearly saw Labour extinguished in the '80s. But the second one is less self-serving. In order to achieve any sort of change - political, financial or social - a party must win power. Corbyn evokes fierce loyalty amongst his constituency members, and among those who deem themselves activists, which is great - as far as it goes. No one doubts that he's a great grass-roots man. But if he's not capable of leading the party to a national victory, then it doesn't matter what he believes: nothing will happen until Labour wins power.
The country as a whole doesn't like extreme politicians: the Tories discovered that with Margaret Thatcher, whose legacy left them largely unelectable for years, and Labour discovered it with Foot's tragic 1983 manifesto, described as 'the longest suicide note in history'.
Grandiose ideas are great, committed socialists are great but until the party wins power nothing will ever happen.