Experts baffled by popularity of politician with ‘principles’ [View all]

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Satire, but not far off how many on the Blairite the Labour party are reacting to veteran left winger Jeremy Corbyn's campaign for leadership of the UK Labour party

http://newsthump.com/2015/07/27/experts-baffled-by-popularity-of-politician-with-principles/

Politicians and commentators have admitted to being utterly baffled as to the appeal of principled politician, Jeremy Corbyn.

“No one can quite fathom Jeremy’s appeal,” said a Labour insider.

“For some reason people are enjoying hear someone speak with conviction on their own beliefs rather than toss off the usual centrist, benefit-hating, corporate-loving, vote-for-me-and-you’ll-get-a-bigger-bag-of-crisps rhetoric that they’ve been force-fed since the height of Thatcher-ism.”

Other candidates for the Labour leadership, rocked by the notion that they might actually have to put together a more coherent argument than ‘Mr Cameron is a nasty man,’ are scrabbling to find a way to defeat Mr Corbyn.