If Corbyn is dumped, why should anyone who cares about workers and the poor bother voting Labour?

[Ken Burch]

21. And I think Corbyn and his team do understand television.

That's why Labour isn't in third place in the polls(as it was for much of the time that Foot was leader).

If Tony Benn had been elected leader in 1981, Labour would have done far better in the next election. Tony was always great on television and had much more personal charisma than Foot(admirable man that Foot was).

In the same sense, if Corbyn does go, John McDonnell would be the logical successor as leader. He would carry on Corbyn's transformative project in politics and internal party governance(Labour cannot be a radical government if the internal structures set up by Blair are kept in place), yet conveys far more personal energy and is better on television than Corbyn is.

Nothing could justify erasing everything Corbyn stands for and going back to what labour would be like if Yvette Cooper had been elected...a party of permanent war and permanent austerity, a party that was going to offer nothing to the Northern and Eastern English voters who switched to UKIP as much out of despair and a feeling of irrelevance as anything else(it's the leadership of UKIP that is bigoted, not so much the voters).