Is Corbyn capable of winning a general election?

[DotCommunist]

death of ten thousand slaps!

A move popularised by E Honda in Street Fighter 2

 

[littlebabyjesus]

That's the key point I think. He failed miserably in the referendum as well. In the dog fight of a GE I don't think he'd come out well. Khan on the other hand.....

I want to support Corbyn for his policies but right now we're in a whole new situation and I don't think he's up to delivering a win.

According to Ashcroft, just under two thirds of labour voters voted Remain. Considering this wasn't his referendum - he hadn't demanded it - that seems ok to me. It's almost exactly the same proportion as SNP voters, and nobody's lambasting Nicola Sturgeon. What exactly was he supposed to have done.

Also this appears to be repeating something that came out a lot after the local elections - every failure is Corbyn's fault, while every success, such as London mayor, is somehow nothing to do with him.

 

[maomao]

No-one here can accurately predict what will happen at the next election. IMO though, whether or not Corbyn can win it, Labour won't get anywhere without him. The Tories despite everything are projecting competence and have the right wing vote sewn up. The market for identical policies with a civilising veneer of identity politics on top is vanishingly small and they don't seem to have a personality who could sell it. Smith and Eagle are buffoons and would do worse than Milliband.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

If winning in 2020 is the limit of your vision as a left-winger and you're backing Eagle and Owen as alternatives you're already a loser. You're backing losers in four years' time, a strategy guaranteeing 20 years of losing as the core Labour support base crumbles, a generation of US Democratic Party light politics with no parliamentary left worth the name for the forseeable. I'm not even in the party political camp and I'm astonished at how intent on losing people like you seem to be. I'm in awe. There's no way, as an anarchist, that I could dedicate myself so wholeheartedly to fucking up the social democratic project. Hats off to you.

Fair enough, tbh i've not given this enough thought. That was just my general impression in the context of our one sided , skewed media.