Meep wrote:Yup, Corbyn is holding Labour back from power. I can see why some in Labour might have thought he was a good idea to 'shake things up' but right now things are more than shaken enough for the majority of the population.
The Conservatives have been taken over by rabid right wingers and most people can see this playing on TV every day. Put a moderate in charge of Labour and they will win the next election by landslide.
A moderate already is in charge of Labour.
The problem with the country isn't Labour; it's the governing Conservative party actively and deliberately making the lives of ordinarily people more miserable so the most wealthy can more easily withhold and grow that wealth.
Too many people are too keen to posit "what if" based in Labour's direction. How about what if the Conservatives weren't utterly awful instead?
And none of this is helped by the idea that Corbyn isn't moderate simply because he doesn't equate socialism with the USSR or because he might at times suggest he's willing to enact actual change to fix a broken system (though he doubtless has his own political faults).
This idea that the Tories are only now heading toward the extreme right wing, or that Cameron was "moderate", is just an indication of how decades of ridiculously skewed journalism and misinformation have imbalanced the public perspective of what is and what isn't considered reasonable and / or extreme in our country these days.
You can trace it all the way back to 2010, too. If a statesman calls a bigot a bigot, the shame should be with the bigot. If we're all in this austerity business together, you cannot justify a 5% tax cut only on the highest earners.
We've been a right wing country for years. The Conservatives are only consolidating their position.
