re: #87 MsJ

As am I. Corbyn is an empty suit and why Labour continues to support him when he is polling in near single digits is beyond me. Corbyn as PM would hand an election to the Tories. I hope the LibDems can make some major movement.

As best I understand it*, Jeremy Corbyn built up his base of support in the Labour Party in the good-old-fashioned old-school-lefty way: building up cadres of sympathetic loyalists, and then getting them inserted in the Party’s organizational and administrative sections. And then relying on their support to first get him in power, and then, aided by the reluctance of a lot of Labourites to openly split the Party over internal disputes, stay there.

I also disagree ( but see disclaimer above) that Corbyn is an “empty suit” - it’s just that IMO, what’s in the “suit” - easily, if simplistically, caricatured as “boldly moving Britain forward into the 1970s!” - isn’t what a lot of the British electorate wants or needs. Admittedly, the man has been subject, of late, to an image-smearing campaign of Hillary-Clinton-level intensity, but the unfortunate facts are that old Jez is going to be the face of Labour for the immediate future. Which (even more unfortunately) is a gift to their opponents.

*possibly/probably incorrectly