• Mchugho@lemmy.world
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    Effective at maintaining the status quo for the powerful. That’s the only reason he is championed as effective.

    You can want the rich to pay their fair share without burrowing into populism. At the moment what are they offering for an average person other than a red rosette?

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        Absolutely not. It’s completely disingenuous to say just because Corbyn advocated for a specific policy then that policy is no longer workable due to 2019. He had problems that extended far beyond his manifesto.

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          And his problems were that he and his cohort were too far left to get elected.

          Same as Kinnock.

          Nothing more than centre left is electable, evidenced by the election results of the last hundred years.

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            Sure if you believe the Tory tabloid attack lines. Most of his domestic policy was mild social democratic thought.

            He got destroyed by the media and not for policy reasons.

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                Well yeah, that’s why I don’t think he was very good.

                But to say that a more media savvy yet actually principled leader would never work is just wrong, it’s never been tried.

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                    I just want someone in the boring Starmer mold but who is trying to inject a bit more hope into the normal people of this country. Maybe that is too much to ask for but I don’t think our demographics are fixed, a lot can and will change.