Experts baffled by popularity of politician with ‘principles’

[T_i_B]

Satire, but not far off how many on the Blairite the Labour party are reacting to veteran left winger Jeremy Corbyn's campaign for leadership of the UK Labour party

http://newsthump.com/2015/07/27/experts-baffled-by-popularity-of-politician-with-principles/

Politicians and commentators have admitted to being utterly baffled as to the appeal of principled politician, Jeremy Corbyn.

“No one can quite fathom Jeremy’s appeal,” said a Labour insider.

“For some reason people are enjoying hear someone speak with conviction on their own beliefs rather than toss off the usual centrist, benefit-hating, corporate-loving, vote-for-me-and-you’ll-get-a-bigger-bag-of-crisps rhetoric that they’ve been force-fed since the height of Thatcher-ism.”

Other candidates for the Labour leadership, rocked by the notion that they might actually have to put together a more coherent argument than ‘Mr Cameron is a nasty man,’ are scrabbling to find a way to defeat Mr Corbyn.

[malaise]

1. Very accurate

Blair is publicly campaigning against him

[T_i_B]

2. Question

Do any US DUer's see similarities between Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders?

[daleanime]

3. Don't know....

but I'm wondering about that also.

Will have to do some reading up Mr. Corbyn, or is he referred to as Jeremy?

[T_i_B]

9. He's known as Jeremy Corbyn

Doesn't have any nicknames, and isn't known by his first name like Boris Johnson. Also doesn't help that there is another more famous Jeremy C in this country in the form of Jeremy Clarkson.

Mind you, it's difficult to think of a more stereotypical leftie than Jeremy Corbyn.

[malaise]

5. Great question

Don't know enough about either man, but British socialists or social democrats tend to be way left of their American counterparts.

[Le Taz Hot]

6. First thing that came to mind was

the article could have easily been written about Sanders. Interesting that the U.S. and Brits are looking at a burgeoning populist movement. Interestig

[ladyVet]

7. Interesting. And encouraging. nt

[SwissTony]

4. Perhaps Corbyn has learned from the success of the SNP.

On The Daily Show a month or two ago, Nicola Sturgeon attributed the SNP's success to having policies very similar to those of Labour 10 or 20 years ago.

Maybe such an approach will strike a chord with other in the Labour party.

[T_i_B]

8. The SNP virtually wiped Labour out in Scotland

And yet 3 out of the 4 candidates who want to be the next Labour leader have totally failed to address this major problem for Labour.

[Doctor_J]

10. sounds a lot like big media reaction to Sanders

[T_i_B]

11. Our media has become quite hysterical

Even nominally left wing papers like the Observer have been very shrill in their anti-Cornyn stuff. (Their Blairite Westminster bubble columnist Andrew Rawnsley being a target for the Newsthump piece)

Trouble is, the 3 mainstream candidates are actually quite poor. And the media darling, ultra-Blairite Liz Kendall is languishing in a poor 4th, having completely failed to grasp what being leader of the opposition actually entails.