Quote Originally Posted by Dorcus View Post
I thought it the best manifesto I've ever seen and I'm incredulous the majority of the country didn't vote for it. Inevitably, it was nothing to do with the manifesto though, we have followed the USA scourge and elections now are Presidential popularity contests. McDonnell and Corbyn are right on this.
This was not a "normal" General Election where the content of manifestos had a major bearing on the outcome though. A general election was Johnson/Cummings favoured tool from the former's coronation. They rationalised quite rightly that the opposition parties would split the Remain vote and they would hoover up the well of discontent that Brexit was a logjam caused by opposition within and outwith the Tory party.

If McDonnell and Corbyn have suddenly woken up to the fact that Party Leadership is a key determinant in a sizeable proportion of the population when it comes to casting their vote then that is another reason we are well shot of them.