How Much Longer Can Labour Last Under The Leadership Of Corbyn?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4337976/Fresh-blow-Corbyn-Labour-loses-70-000-members.html

[Gromit]

Corbyn is a bad leader, but the main problem is its MPs.

Even if they had a different leader, they would still have the same bad policies.

So the future looks bleak for them.

Fortunately the Tory Government is tied up implementing Brexit for the next 3 years+, so hopefully they won't have time to pass any bad bills.

[ludwig]

They'll have plenty more time than 3 years to pass bad bills Gromit - specifically whenever the next general election is plus another 5 years, as a minimum.

[andy-hughes]

I think everyone - including Mr Corbyn - knows that he will not be leading the party into the next election.

So the question remains as asked - how much longer will they put up with him before he is ousted?

His position - mandated by the grass roots, loathed by his party, and utterly unsuitable to provide anything approaching a meaningful Opposition - is untenable.

[naomi24]

Perhaps the question should be “How much longer can Labour last whilst being controlled by the unions?’

[cassa333]

Or who long can Labour last under the control of Momentum?

They seem to be calling the shots.

[sunny-dave]

We've been here before - remember Michael Foot, remember Iain Duncan Smith?

Both main parties seem to get into an "out of power for a generation" mode every once in a while and enter a cycle of self-harm and increasing despair.

It lasts until the governing party finally screws up so badly that the opposition realises they have a chance of power, whereupon they come to their senses and find an electable leader (eg Blair, Cameron).

[naomi24]

Labour has bigger problems than just its leader.

[sunny-dave]

It's had them before, as have the tories - the wheel will turn ... eventually.

[Sqad]

The fact that Jeremy Corbyn will lead the Labour party into the next election, is a "racing certainty."
How can they get rid of him?
He was elected by a "landslide" majority by the Labour Party members et Al and fought off a challenge quite recently.
Who would challenge him?.......again.
Corbyn will hang on until the bitter end, which, in my opinion will be the next General Election.

[naomi24]

sunny-dave, I really can't see it happening. Most people simply don't want what Labour is offering. Labour is a relic of the past - times have changed and people's aspirations have changed. Life has moved on.

[Jackdaw33]

The only member of his shadow cabinet I could recognise or name is Diane Abbott, and she is hardly likely to persuade people to vote Labour.

[sunny-dave]

I'm old enough to remember exactly the same being said in 1980, naomi - and similarly everyone saying how useless and permanently irrelevant the tories were in 1998.

The current Labour Party is a shambles - but I expect a phoenix-from-the-ashes sometime in the early 2020s ...

[naomi24]

sunny-dave, you can but hope.

[cassa333]

They all go through times of flux. Politics ebbs and flows. Leaders come and go. Left, right and centre come and go.

They won't implode up their own jacksies. They will just fumble around for a while then spring back on an issue as yet unfound.

[Khandro]

As has been aired several times on here before, the old left-right ideologies are a thing of the past, but no one has told Corbyn and he seems to be trying to answer contemporary questions with 19th and 20th century answers, today it is issues which count; globalization, sovereignty and immigration etc.
Listening to the spokespeople for Corbyn's labour party on Question Time has become an embarrassment.

[emmie]

who would replace him at any rate, there really isn't anyone.

[Jackdaw33]

Corbyn is only there because some misguided moderates decided to support his nomination, otherwise he would never have got on the ballot paper in the first place. They won't make that mistake again. I think Benn is just biding his time.

[ToraToraTora]

stop it, my sides are splitting!

[magpie]

i think that trade unions were brilliant for stopping the use of people akin to slaves. workers rights are now protected by law. the problem with the far left is that they want to rail against things that no longer exist. anyone with any sense knows that wealth comes from success in selling our products around the world. what we need is a centre-left party that is considerate to business, but not beholden to them. the greatest brief of any government is to keep it's population safe, sensible defence and good laws are essential. i can't see anyone on the labour benches capable of doing it for their people.