why is there so much hatred for Corbyn?

Aj33

Top work!

clydebest

Yes i saw him in the late 60's on the Big Match and when living in London i started to go to matches at The Boleyn and some away also Because of him and that West Ham team of that era.

Pacifico

just another day for Labour..

Nothing to see here.. move along..move along..  

sebbykin

In a way, a very small way. I feel sorry for JC, he seems like a fly caught in the momentum web. He has his ideals ( unworkable) but these are stifled by the machine that's using him. Being a bad actor doesn't help either.

martimu

Still waiting to find the 0.06% who are not anti semetic in the current labour party upper echelons.

Jeremy Corbyn is that classic case of a person fighting a cause that he thinks he knows but has never lived, or really understood. He only sees the black and white of a situation from a righteous perspective without ever bothering to look at the nuance or, as someone else has said, the bigger picture. It's all one-sided

Russia - was once marxist, therefore they are really nice and couldn't possibly hurt a fly (poisoning what poisoning?)
Israel - have big army, therefore must be the bad guys on everything. ( Hamas killing women and children, repressing a population and living comfortably themselves, oh that can't be happening)
Ireland - England have big army, therefore must be the bad guys on this issue (we'll just ignore the religious nutters here they must be nice normal people really)
Wealthy people - have lots of money, all must be bad and screwing the system. None of them paying taxes obviously ( we'll just ignore all the philanthropy, employment creation, and decent ones  - can't see my own wealth in this because of my special righteous glasses).

I don't hate him I find him a hypocrite and dangerously simplistic. Yet with an ability to sit on the fence and be duplicitous over a subject ( e.g. Brexit) when it suits.

He's the worst of the left-wing that thinks they know what is best for everybody and would just hammer it in, and blithely continue despite what any evidence to contrary suggests.

If it makes you feel any better I think Johnson is the right-wing equivalent and equally poor in his own way. He has no principles I can discern that don't change when it suits. The only difference being I don't think he'll he'd inadvertently 'do a Venezuela' (which Corbyn seems to have missed with his special glasses on).

I do believe he is anti-semitic btw. He just won't see it with his magic glasses on, he doesn't believe he is.
It's spillover from communism (amongst others) depicting Jews as the wealthy bankers   - ironically despite Jewish workers being involved much of the labour movements at the time.

His liking of the mural said as much to me about how he thinks but doesn't actually see. If you can’t see antisemitism, it’s time to open your eyes | Michael Segalov
I'm left wondering if the fact he didn't notice (assuming genuine) is a worse issue, and why it's been so spectacularly poorly dealt with.
For me that sums up how he'd deal with anything under a leadership. Refuse to see a problem, then ignore it in the face of overwhelming evidence, press on as if nothing has happened potentially compounding a problem till it becomes a catastrophe.

ostewart

The Tories seem capable of finding money to buy support from the DUP support that backfired spectacularly.

martimu

Given some of the press lately, it would seem to be the case of which party can be the most stupid.
What have we had:
BJ, tells Ireland that their deal is great because they are in the EU and get good trade
Dracula R Mogg tells people they are stupid for burning to death
Dyscalculia Abbot can't count how long Ken Clarke was doing something or count a potato apparently
Half the Labour party seem to have come out in support for the conservatives
The SNP seem to have come out in support for the Labour party
Another Labour candidate pulls out after making another anti-semitic remark.

Seriously wtf! Can't wait for the TV debates! Should be comedy gold

Steve_B

Indeed they did... around £1 billion I believe was reported at the time - a huge figure, though a drop in the ocean compared to the £400 billion being proposed by Labour in the last day or so.

£1 billion is probably washing around in the treasury's slush fund - not sure £400 billion will be though... I wish them good luck.

Yes that money may well have been better spent on other issues...

jfinnie

Sounds low as a percentage, but by quick calculation it is more people than the Labour party has MPs...

5hp

Is then only option for not going back to 70's to vote Liberal, since voting labour, conservative, brexit party I think all will do that one way or another.