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Winckle wrote:

teh bork wrote:

Tineash wrote:Tax credits got slashed today, too. Did anyone even notice?

Who cares about a couple of million people losing money, we should be focused on some bloke not singing the national anthem.

It's cool our media focuses on the real issues.

TigaSefi wrote:So whilst Corbyn engages the media full on by his behavior, the Tories can slip out bad news when they feel like it. Hah! Well done Corbyn!

TigaSefi wrote:You are right, I am being a little flippant but Corbyn is missing huge opportunities here to strike back and he isn't PR savvy enough to turn it back on the media yet. But then again if he does stick to his principles then this issue will be around a long time where what he DOES personally is overshadowing what he SAYS for the country every single time. Tis all early days and PMQ is about to start!

Grumpy David wrote:The shadow Chancellor so left wing that Ken Livingstone sacked him in the 80s for being too left wing

Grumpy David wrote:Corbyn scraping the bottom of the barrel. His education spokesman is Mike Watson, a convicted arsonist who's served time in prison.

He was and is a member of the house of Lords, a role he couldn't be stripped from despite his criminal record.

Not making this up.

A fifth of Labour voters say they are more likely to vote Conservative after the election of Jeremy Corbyn as party leader.

A poll published a week after the veteran MP won an overwhelming victory in the Labour leadership race has found him losing support among the wider electorate.

Almost three in four people do not believe Mr Corbyn looks like a prime-minister in waiting and around 37 per cent of Labour voters say they are less likely to back the party at the next election, according to the poll.

The findings will provide further ammunition to Mr Corbyn’s critics within the party after what they say has been a poor start to his leadership.

It follows the rows over his failure to sing the national anthem at a Battle of Britain memorial service and his shadow chancellor forced to apologise for his previous support for the IRA.

According to the poll Mr Corbyn has yet to win over two of the groups whose support he would have hoped to attract more readily.

The poll, conducted for the Independent by ORB on Wednesday and Thursday, found that a majority – 67 per cent – of voters in the bottom DE social group do not see him as prime ministerial. Nor do 68 per cent of public sector workers.

But Mr Corbyn’s election appears to have made more of an impression in Scotland, Wales, the North-east and London – areas seen as crucial to any hope of a revival in Labour’s electoral fortunes.

Some 36 per cent of people who voted for the Scottish National Party in May say they are now more likely to vote Labour with Mr Corbyn as leader – suggesting that his anti-austerity agenda could yet win over voters who deserted Labour at the last election.

Overall, 59 per cent of the public say Labour looks less electable than it did last May, while 41 per cent regard it as more electable.

But this finding contains a silver lining for Mr Corbyn, coming as an improvement since July, when – in the middle of the Labour leadership contest – 76 per cent said the party was less electable than in May and 24 per cent judged it more electable.