So, the whole Corbyn thing. The last thing anyone needs is another blowhard with another opinion, but this is Twitter. So, sorry, but...



It's hard to defend Jeremy Corbyn as a leader. He's not a Churchillian/Henry V/Mon Mothma figure. We've had that with Blair, Cameron and now with Johnson. What we all saw was style over substance. What we voted for with JC was substance. The lack of style is excruciating, yes, but we knee what we were getting - a good grandad not a flash uncle.



Now, I've been accused of backing a man over the party, but actually, I'm backing an ideology. That ideology is lightly socialist. It's the idea that the economy should be run in a such a way that we create a society that most benefits the vast majority, not the 1%. The only main-party politician who has truly vocalised this in my lifetime is Jeremy Corbyn. The savaging he takes from the plutocrat-owned-press only confirms that they recognise that he challenges their perceived right to rule.



If we don't change how we organise our society, the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer - for which, read shittier schools, fewer hospitals, doctors, fire engines, worse public transport... etc.



So, if a politician stands up and says, "Let's create a better way", I'm with them.



The trouble is that he is the leader of a PARTY. He cannot lay out the necessity of the change alone. What's required is that EVERYONE in Labour, but ESPECIALLY the PLP is front footed in their evangelism. This has never happened. Corbyn may have 'failed', but if he did, it was because the rest of the team were sitting on the bench watching him fail.



So, no, i'm not party loyal. I'm ideologically loyal. I accept that you can't be a member of a political party and get everything you want as policy. Compromise is the key. But replacing Corbyn with some diet-Tory, to prop up the broken society that that we live in, rather than actually fixing it, isn't compromise, it's surrender.



Was Jeremy Luke warm over the Referendum? Undoubtedly. But 67% of Labour voted remain. Did he convince those outside of Labour to follow him? No. But where were the other political titans Labour had to offer?



Waiting, it seems, knife in hand for our goid grandad to give them a clear run at his back.



Shame on them.

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