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Meldread

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7. I think Corbyn is a weak leader for the Left.
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 08:36 PM
Jun 2016

However, I think he will actually win the election. All the resignations only help him. Right now there is a strong anti-elitist mood washing over most of the Western World. Most of those who stepped out were dedicated to the Tony Blair Third Way Agenda. This was strongly rejected by Labor voters when they put in Corbyn. He is like the Bernie Sanders of the Labor Party, he represents an old school liberal view of the world dating back pre-1990's, but he lacks the political skills to actually achieve tangible results for the Left.

The best hope that we can foresee in Labor is more Leftists rising up to take power in the party, purging the existing establishment, and then ultimately replacing Corbyn with someone more suited to the job of actually furthering the Leftist Agenda. In the mean time I think of Corbyn more of a placeholder than anything else.

Besides, now would be a horrible time for Labor to take power. The last thing anyone should want is to have any responsibility for what is going to unfold as the UK disentangles itself from the EU. Let the Tory's own it. Then when things go poorly, as they inevitably will, the Left will be able to campaign against their failure.

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