captain red dog wrote:If the Tories tank the Brexit negotiations I don't see their PR cutting through at all. Nothing they can say about Corbyn would be good enough to save them.
The trouble with Corbyn is just how easy he has made it for them to do exactly that. What's Corbyn going to do? Criticise the Tory Brexit policy that he has either been agreeing with or ignoring? The Tories can easily just point and say "Corbyn agreed with us all the way" and that argument for Corbyn is then dead. The Tories will also say that they were defending Britain and that the EU was bullying us but that they refused to give in etc etc.
Then add on the "Labour debt" and "increased taxes" propaganda on top of the distrust people already have for Corbyn and he is not guaranteed a victory even if the Tories collapse everything. And that's appalling, a decent leader should have trounced the Tories last year, we can't even be too sure that he'll manage it if the Tories tank the Brexit negations.
It also depends on who is leading the Tories by that point as I don't think it will be May, but I don't really see anyone else viable at this point.
I don't think it'll be May either. But 4 years is a hell of a long time in politics, a viable candidate can easily rise up in that time.