Kinnock wouldn't be regarded as left as Corbyn ..but he was left.... but even he couldn't win power when Thatcher was in...and times were hard during her reign for many people.
To me..having lived through Tory rule before..i cannot see someone like Corbyn even coming close to taking power from them. On top of that..you have the fact that Labour will split in a similar way to gang of four if he gets it..you just feel the change coming. He could end up leading a lot smaller party than we currently see. If that happens..and its a strong possibility he has a bit better chance than UKIP or the Lib Dems of having a party big enough to ever gain power..even if he has a lot of support.
In my time ..the left....even not far left ...have consistently failed to win power..Foot..Kinnock...Miliband. Not only failed..but failed badly. How many more examples do we need?..the rest of Labour Party know that very well...and thats why if this goes his way something major will happen within the labour party. I would say that todays party are even more likely to split than when the gang of 4 p1ssed off.
Labour were all set for a time of looking at what they needed to be after the election..this is their worst nightmare at a time when they needed to reassess their strategy. I would imagine if the Tories had tried to dream up a way of shoving a spanner in Labour's works..even they couldn't have thought something up as effective as Corbyn.
Its too extreme..its all very nice talking about what he wants to do but i haven't seen how he is going to do what he wants to do..its off the top of the head idealism that may grab the young and the hard left but won't appeal to the masses.
Just wait if he gets it..Tories will start from day one with the scare tactics...thats how they won the last election. They study the weakness..then paint the worse case scenario..they then use threats for a long period of time about what will happen if such as Corbyn gets power..they just had one real tactic with Miliband..the SNP will pull his strings.
The tories..are so much smarter than Labour. Labour are so naive..this leader election alone shows that..last night they were talking to Tom watson on Beeb news..he said that he didn't haven't a problem with it..after all people wouldn't stoop so low as to register if they weren't genuine..is he real?? This morning i heard that one of UKIP's party bods had actually registerd for one. How daft do you have to be to have a leadership election in this manner..daft as brushes imo
