Could We Even Trust This Person To Be The Uk's Prime Minister?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5401097/Jeremy-Corbyn-paid-Czech-secret-police-spy-claims.html

[Prudie]

If we know he's a commie why is he leading the Labour party? They are not ideologically the same. I always said he's an infiltrator.

[Johnny7seven]

So a Tory newspaper once again attacks a socialist (look it up) leader with an unfounded story.
Telling me the Daily Express are still running Diana stories next.

[jackthehat]

Tony Blair created a faux Labour Party.
He stuffed it full of socialist-lite members leaving those properly of the left without a party which fully represented their core-beliefs.
Once the pantomine dame of 'New Labour' had left the stage the understudies rushed to fill the void with promises of being a proper alternative to the Tories.
And so we now have what we have ....

[ichkeria]

I don't think Corbyn was ever a "spy"
Sounds like he unwittingly, naively like many) gave info to a Czechoslovak who was an intelligence operative. As many were.
(I suspect that this is what may turn out to have been the case in the Trump enquiry too: naive conniving with hostile agents).

None of which means I think Corbyn is in any way suitable to lead a political party in the UK.

[andy-hughes]

The Labour Party has consistently elected leaders who are unelectable as Prime Ministers - Kinnock, Foot, Miliband, Brown, and now we have Corbyn.

It's as though they have a built-in political death wish.

I do believe that Corbyn will not be the leader by the time the next election comes around - he increasingly damns his own chances with the sort of fanciful election pledges that only a confirmed loser-in-advance would offer, and the parliamentary party will have to replace him to look even vaguely credible at election time.

[webbo3]

And that is the best answer Andy. ^

[ToraToraTora]

yeah bang on Andy.

[dannyk13]

Johnny 7. The article gives plenty of evidence.

[ichkeria]

Brown would have been electable as leader. The timing was poor :-)

[emmie]

not in a month of sundays

[cassa333]

Who would be Labour leader if Corbyn wasn't..

Hmm. Oh I know. Someone chosen by Momentum and the Unions.

[emmie]

what about Keir Stamer.

[ichkeria]

As previously said: Starmer is probably unelectable. As leader.
Brown would almost certainly have won in 1997 had he not agreed to stand aside.

[fender62]

labour is not what it was if it ever was, it will always be i got mine jack..get yours, natural order of things i guess, all politoc's come and go, once their nest is fed taken care of, all liars..although i had hope in john smith before he passed away sadly, but there we.

[fender62]

i think the higher your up i the pile, they forget where they came from
and the needs of the people they represent, an after thought..

[kvalidir]

I think Keir Starmer is VERY electable. You can say what you like about the current Labour membership but they have a Golden Ticket if they oppose Brexit and Starmer will do that for them. for possibly the first time in history they will have a significant disenfranchised cross party vote, and could oust the Tories. I think that's about as electable as you're ever going to get.

[andy-hughes]

kvalidir - What a sad indictment of our current political landscape - that the electorate would vote for Labour not because of what they represent - but because of what they don't represent.

[Spicerack]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWP5FIEWkAAu2xV.jpg

[jordyboy14]

I am not saying this because of her colour,I think that there is something that is weird about Dianne Abbott I can't explain thinking this I have this feeling that she is not the full shilling yet she is seemingly very clever

[Jackdaw33]

//there is something that is weird about Dianne Abbott I can't explain thinking this I have this feeling that she is not the full shilling\\

Understatement of the year.