Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
I agreed with all the other stuff, but Corbyn is facing a revolt by a party of careerist Blair clones and I really like him, so I am a bit sensitive about that. I agree that the left needs to give it a rest with all the political correctness. They have lost the debate there. If they would condemn Blair, support Corbyn and get real on border control they would win the next election easily, but they don't seem to want to do that. Strange lot, but then again maybe they are not strange at all when you think about what politics really is. It's a lot of smoke and mirrors and Corbyn is none of that. Just a decent, principled man willing to listen. In that context he is very strange.
I thought after the last general election when Labour lost Scotland, and said they would never work with the SNP, that Labour would be out of power for a generation. Corbyn has tried to skirt that line between centrist MPs and a membership that craves being further to the left. Personally, I would like to see him clear house with the traitors, and if he does and bounces back stronger come the election, I think we'll see many of those brandishing the knives at the moment deselected come the next election. If Corbyn gives in now, I can see Labour splintering into two.