If you think any politician in the UK can push back against the drive to war - any war - without drawing heat then you haven't been paying attention. The centre left as well as right wing press are absolutely rock hard for any kind of military intervention whatsoever - their reputation rests on it: after all, if they were to question this (whatever blatantly self-interested and doomed bit of US war-mongering) then maybe they should also have questioned that (every previous self-interested and doomed bit of US war-mongering), which they absolutely did not do. The UK is a war machine and if trying to throw a spanner in it were the only objectionable thing Corbyn were planning it would still be enough to earn the undying enmity of the whole of the British establishment, and all the smear campaigns he's so far endured.This serves as another indicator as to just how tarnished and lacking in credibility Corbyn is now that he can’t even make a sensible point without drawing flack. His comment (BBC) is perfectly sensible, but he (and by connection his party) is now so indelibly stained with anti-Semitism, support for Hamas, Hezbollah etc etc etc even vacuous opportunists and Trump-toadies like Jeremy Hunt can successfully slap him back into his box. He is basically non-functional as an opposition leader and has made the whole Labour movement untenable as a political force.
Yes, he'd have signed up to military misadventure in a heartbeat! [wipes tear] What could have been!Labour was lost since D Miliband didn't make it.
So what he says is perfectly sensible, but it needs to be said by someone trustworthy, someone not indelibly stained, some one upstanding?This serves as another indicator as to just how tarnished and lacking in credibility Corbyn is now that he can’t even make a sensible point without drawing flack. His comment (BBC) is perfectly sensible, but he (and by connection his party) is now so indelibly stained with anti-Semitism, support for Hamas, Hezbollah etc etc etc even vacuous opportunists and Trump-toadies like Jeremy Hunt can successfully slap him back into his box. He is basically non-functional as an opposition leader and has made the whole Labour movement untenable as a political force.
Yes, he'd have signed up to military misadventure in a heartbeat! [wipes tear] What could have been!
This serves as another indicator as to just how tarnished and lacking in credibility Corbyn is now that he can’t even make a sensible point without drawing flack. His comment (BBC) is perfectly sensible, but he (and by connection his party) is now so indelibly stained with anti-Semitism, support for Hamas, Hezbollah etc etc etc even vacuous opportunists and Trump-toadies like Jeremy Hunt can successfully slap him back into his box. He is basically non-functional as an opposition leader and has made the whole Labour movement untenable as a political force.
Mabbott
So what he says is perfectly sensible, but it needs to be said by someone trustworthy, someone not indelibly stained, some one upstanding?
Despite his errors I bet Clegg could come back right now and have a public approval rating way, way above Corbyn’s current record-breaking minus-53!