"Jeremy Corbyn has given hope to my generation. Please don’t let the cynics take it away"

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21. I concur with your assessment

I very much understand why Corbyn won, and have a lot of sympathy with Corbyn supporters, but equally I can't blind myself to Jeremy Corbyn's faults and weaknesses.

Whilst Corbyn is making some progress on a few of Labours major problems, there are other major problems that haven't gone away at all, and in some cases are getting worse. Labour is still in open civil war, and all too often comes across as being in a state of disorganised chaos. As the Tories proved in the 1990's, that is not a recipe for success.

I've been worried for a number of years about the growing disconnect between the Labour party and everyone else, and the election of Corbyn can be attributed in no small part to the Parliamentary Labour Party having lost touch with everyone else in the Labour movement. Now we have a situation where Labour increasingly looks like something of a circular firing squad, with various factions with names that resemble team names from The Apprentice such as Progress, Momentum, Compass and Labour First looking to fight each other rather than engage with the outside world.