the inevitable Jeremy Corbyn thread....

[LeftishBrit]

8. In my opinion, neither...

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He is IMO someone who has the advantages and disadvantages of being a political leader who doesn't really want power all that much. Thus, he is principled and IMO personally more decent than most. But he has little political experience except as a backbench MP; and may not be manipulative enough(!) to combat his opponents among the Tories and even more within his own party.

As regards policies, I think he is right on the economy. I think he is rather out-of-his-depth on foreign policy - on the other hand, is there anyone around who isn't? Blairites who lit that powder-keg in Iraq and thus have contributed to, among many other disasters, the rise of 'ISIS' in the first place? Tories who mostly supported the Iraq war, are prepared to involve a highly undemocratic country like China in our nuclear industry and helped Saudi Arabia get onto the UN Human Rights Council?