16-08-2016, 08:08
(15-08-2016, 23:20)Ska Wrote:(15-08-2016, 21:11)spireitematt Wrote: Young people feel disillusioned with politics as they feel they are all the same and that nothing changes but look what Jeremy Corbyn has done he has got young people interested as he is interacting with them and he appeals to them as he's different and unorthodox and wants change but the establishment don't like that as they are scared and the PLP want rid of him. The reason why he's struggling is because the media, his own MPs have undermined him from day one instead of getting behind him properly and all working together and he can't be bought either.
Nope, the reason why he's struggling is because he's an incompetent fantasist who delivers platitudes instead of policies. Which is also the reason why the PLP want rid of him, and why huge swathes of the public want rid of him, and why the Tory Party are dancing an ecstatic jig, hoping he stays put and continues exactly what he's currently doing.
Spireitematt, I think you are too young to remember when Thatcher was PM and the Labour Party made themselves virtually unelectable by trotting out a bunch of leaders and other key politicians who were too left wing (or at least pervcieved to be) to be elected. Corbyn reminds me of those leaders, whether it's Michael Foot or Neil Kinnock, honorable men but not PM material in the end. Over here Bernie Sanders is the same, loved by the younger generation against his establishment rival in Hillary, but ultimately probably not electable in a general election.
Back to the referendum, it's amazing how remain voters blamed the older members of society for not understanding the true meaning of the EU and said the younger generations were the ones who will suffer with this result in the future, yet had the younger generations voted in the same numbers as the older generations then the result would have been reversed!!