UK Labour Party leads Tories WITHOUT Corbyn as leader, trail by 8% with him.

[RandySF]

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[DavidDvorkin]

1. That's striking.

[nycbos]

2. Not a surprise.

[CrossingTheRubicon]

3. People are waking up to the reality of what "Democratic Socialism" is all about...

And they don’t like what they see.

Labour should be a lock to take the majority, but not with Corbyn.

Let’s learn from the UKs mistake.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Labour was socialist long before Corbyn.

[CrossingTheRubicon]

5. I'm struggling to remember the industries that were collectivized by Tony Blair...

when he lead non-socialists to the majority.

[First Speaker]

6. "Democratic socialism" worked pretty well in 1945...

...but had reached the point of diminishing returns by the 1970s. Thatcher, of course, was the beneficiary of *that* little fact. The True Believer Michael Foot learned the lesson the hard way, as did Pinnock. Yes, Blair led Labour out of the wilderness, but if I were a Labour supporter, I would feel frustrated that he had gone too far in the other direction. That feeling led, of course, to Corbyn, and the truth of Marx's maxim--history always repeats, first as tragedy--the Thatcher years--the second time, as farce. Only Corbyn could save the Tories in this situation. He has to be the biggest fool to ever lead a major British party. (That doesn't include Jeremy Thorpe, needless to say.)

[DavidDvorkin]

8. Not that flavor of socialism

But socialism, nonetheless.

[CrossingTheRubicon]

10. That's all flavors of Socialism, "Democratic Socialism included.

Social Democracy isn't "Democratic Socialism" or vice versa.

[roamer65]

7. There will be a leadership challenge.

[Recursion]

9. Nobody but Corbyn could lose in this situation (nt)

[JI7]

11. Corbyn sucks so bad. he isn't even a liberal with his bigotry