I think Corbyn leadership during the pandemic wouldn’t have led to us wasting 30bn of tax payers money on bounce back loans that ended up largely being misused / fraudulent, a grossly inefficient track and trace system and giving out loads of taxpayer money to friends of the government.
On top of that our sitting Prime Minister probably wouldn’t have been the first to commit a criminal offence whilst in office. And I don’t imagine Corbyn would have been throwing parties behind closed doors during the pandemic whilst somehow having the audacity to tell all of us that we needed to stay at home and be safe.
I’m not a fan of his, but it was Corbyn himself that was rejected by the British people, not his policies. They just died alongside him.
But I would rather have politicians that have a vision of what we could do, rather than settle for the status quo. Sure you might have to water down those policies in order for them to be voted in, but at least have that vision.
It feels like that’s what we were told. His policies didn’t make sense and weren’t affordable and would cost the taxpayer loads.
We have a higher tax burden possibly than ever before, our government have run the economy into record inflation levels, we’ve got a cost of living crisis and on top of that you could probably point to about £50bn of taxpayer money being wasted over the last half decade on failed policies related to the Tory government.
We were told Corbyn policies were unaffordable because they didn’t benefit the same organisations that fund our Tory government and the media that supported it.
I got the impression that he wanted to super tax the richest few percent, which I completely agree with in principle.
However, there is nothing stopping these rich people leaving the country in droves or even making cuts in their businesses which have a huge nock on effect i.e. Redundancies, unemployment, rent increases etc.
I’m sure this information is easy to find if I looked hard enough but I’ve seen figures recently comparing the first couple of years of Trump to that of Biden and the conservatives smoke the Democrats on nearly every metric.
Corbyn (and by extension Labour) misread the room on Brexit. Fair or not that’s what really did them in. Really don’t think it’s anymore complicated than that.
As someone who accepted the result I hated how it dominated conversation in 2019. I had other priorities at the time. I can’t forgive Cameron for being an absolute pussy over the whole ordeal and unleashing this political plague on the nation. I really hope history looks unkindly on that guy.
I’m not sure that they misread the room. It’s because historically it was Labour who were distrustful of the EU, and the Conservatives, the business party, who were pro EU.
But once the Conservatives turned everything on its head and adopted this anti-EU agenda, it left Labour, and Corbyn, in a difficult position.
Historically you’re right but at that time wasn’t the policy at the time to renegotiate the deal and put it up against remaining in the EU in another referendum?
I think you can consider that misreading the room. Even if it’s a reasonable position. A good part of the populace was dead set against a second referendum.
As a staunch remainer, I mis-read the room. I genuinely didn’t think there would be enough Brexiteers to get it over the line. There wasn’t really, 22% of those eligible to vote voted for Brexit, if more of my kind had got off their arses we’d have stayed in the EU.
Can’t forgive Cameron either, making a mess then running away like a spoilt child. At the time he could have held the Brexit camp to the words in their pre-referendum publicity such as “We won’t leave without a trade deal” for example. Kept the fight with the EU somewhat cleaner but no, he had to run away and leave it to an increasingly incompetent clown show of PMs.
As someone who hates the Tories, I thought Cameron was at least a talented politician and in retrospect he probably was our best chance of Brexit not being as big a mess as it was. He really shouldn’t have abandoned ship.
Yeah was a shame he didn’t see it through despite being against the decision. Partially understand it, him not thinking he’s best to guide us on something he disagreed with but still cowardly to run away.
Everyone that’s come since has been a complete buffoon and strayed so far away from Tory fundamentals (other than lining their mates pockets), the party isn’t even recognisable.
The amount of people that felt like bojo () was/is their mate was sickening during the 2019 election. Acting like he was a man of the people despite all the evidence pointing to the opposite.
) was/is their mate was sickening during the 2019 election. Acting like he was a man of the people despite all the evidence pointing to the opposite.