Quote Originally Posted by City123 View Post
Its incredible to me that a huge swathe of the country bought a lot of the shit that was peddled about Corbyn. Was he perfect? Of course not, but he's not the Antichrist he was portrayed to be for offering fairly sensible socialist policies.

Yesterday pretty much confirmed there won't be another left of centre government in the UK for at least another generation
I think it's because of an incessant hysterical right wing media who have been allowed to get away with it because it suits the bosses and big business. We also have huge swathes of people who seem influenced by reactionary jingoistic 2 liners on social media, add to that, personality politics. Plenty of cretins seem at home in accepting Boris as a 'bit of a boy' bumbling nut funny, i really think that some people chose their politics based on who they'd prefer to go on the piss with. Corbyn is portrayed as non patriotic, a friend of terrorists, a champion of scroungers and snowflakes,scruffy, boring etc. His policies couldn't really be discussed or analysed by those who bought into all of that, because it may have meant that they had to sit down and read a balanced article, then make an informed decision.

Corbyn even had his own parliamentary party against him, many of them to the right or careerists with absolutely zero appetite in fighting for working class people and improving their lives. He's not even close to being far left, he's a soft socialist. It speaks volumes that he's seen that way.