Tony Blair: Corbyn in power would be a 'dangerous experiment'

[Ken Burch]

12. Kinnock lost that election largely on personal unpopularity.

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His aggressive efforts to push Labour further right after 1987 probably lost him as many votes as it gained.

In most countries, people don't trust politicians who give up that many core values in that short a time.

(And though it had next to nothing to do with the subject of this thread, it's Kinnock's fault that Liverpool and many other Labour strongholds haven't had recognisably Labour policies in local governance since the mid-Eighties. If you insist that only "moderates" can lead Labour authorities and that all of them must be totally subservient to whatever Westminster, your going to end up with "Labour" local councils being indistinguishable nearly indistinguishable from Tory councils.)