Corbyn and the Match Girls

The tweet that made me quit the Labour Party

Jeremy Corbyn has convinced me…

Tonight, along with about two thousand other people, I took the opportunity to see Jeremy Corbyn addressing a rally in Leeds.  As it happened, the event was so popular that the hall reached capacity just as we were reaching the front of the queue.  So JC came and stood on the steps of the venue and …

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We need to talk about Jeremy – part 2

In this post, following on from the previous one, I want to pick apart this assumption that Jeremy Corbyn can't win a general election, because elections are won by having centrist policies which appeal to floating voters in the key marginals. Since 1945, in most elections the party which wins the majority usually does so …

We need to talk about Jeremy

I've been inspired to write this after reading Mark Fiddaman's hilarious satirical take-down of the anti-Corbyn camp.  There's been a lot of doom-mongering, so this is my attempt to separate the rhetoric from the facts. The case against Jeremy Corbyn's leadership bid seems to be based on certain implicit assumptions made by those who remember …