Corbyn Wins!

[Angela Channing]

Jeremy Corbyn was again elected leader of the Labour Party with a larger share of the vote than last time. All those MPs that engineered this unnecessary leadership election have achieved nothing other than allowing Teresa May and her wretched Tory Party to get a free run at shafting the country. I hope they will now listen to the party members and support Jeremy and fight the Tories instead.

 

[Angela Channing]

Two more victories for Jeremy Corbyn. He long campaigned against the wicked policy of the UK Government to make chronically ill people having to be retested regularly in order to claim vital social security, a truly evil Tory policy that had lead to dying people having state support removed from them and severely disabled people being forced to get jobs that they are physically unable to do. Yesterday, the government finally listened to Jeremy Corbyn and scrapped the eligibility reassessments for chronically ill people.

Today, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer effectively conceded that his right wing government had been wrong and Jeremy Corbyn had been right on the economy after all. Targets that had been set to reduce the deficit by the end of this Parliament have now been scrapped for a new realism that the economy need to be supported by Government investment. It's really a humiliating climb down by the UK Government and an acceptance that the it's whole economic strategy has been a failure and that Jeremy Corbyn's policy of investing to grow the economy was the right approach after all.

Where Corbyn leads, others eventually follow.

 

[Barbara Fan]

Im not very political, (and loathe Sturgeon and Salmond) most are a bunch of chancers out for themselves but i agree with Neil Kinnock when he says there will not be another Labour Govt in his lifetime

Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable and unlikeable and i feel doing damage to the labour Party, he isnt a leader and I see the Labour party in time fragmenting a bit like David owen, Shirley Williams and co who left to start the new SDP in the 80s.

the Labour party is dead in Scotland when it used to rely so much on a Scottish vote for Govt. I cant think of too many honorable Mps who stand out from the crowd in any party.

The new SNP members have quickly jumped on the gravy train screwing the tax payer for expenses on just about anything! Grrrrr

 

[Angela Channing]

This is where I disagree with you and Neil Kinnock because I think Jeremy Corbyn is the best chance Labour have to be elected.

The past 2 elections Labour stood on a platform supporting austerity policies and they were comprehensively rejected by voters. Now that Labour under Mr Corbyn have rejected austerity policies, the political landscape has totally changed: the right-wing consensus between Labour and the Tories has been shattered. Teresa May can no longer get away with pursuing policies that support the wealthiest people in society at the expense of those at the bottom, a sort of socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor, and she is now accepting that Labour was right all along and investment is the best way to grow the economy. Mr Corbyn is winning the arguments and Teresa May is having to follow him.

On policy issues, the public are broadly in agreement with many of Jeremy Corbyn's policies from nationalising the railways, to rejecting grammar schools, to ending privatisation in the NHS. He does however has an image problem and doesn't come across as a credible Prime Minister in waiting but I think with time, and with the Labour MPs ceasing to undermine him and now ending plots to overthrow him, he can turn this around. The Tory party will fragment over Brexit, they will never agree on soft vs hard Brexit whereas Labour is more united on this issue and it is likely to dominate the political agenda until the next election. Therefore, I wouldn't write off Mr Corbyn's chances of being our next Prime Minister just yet.