Why the Corbyn hatred?

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popegregory

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As someone with no political allegiance who is happy to have voted for all three of the main ones (when they have been the three main ones), as well as Soo the Panda when it was getting silly three years ago, I’m slightly confused by how vilified and universally despised JC appears to have become compared with anyone else in politics. Blair went to war for something to do, Cameron gave us the Brexit debacle and the current lot are truly pushing he the boundaries of what you can get away with by creaming off millions to their mates with nothing as much as a raised eyebrow and seemingly lying quite a lot.

Is it all the anti-Semitism because based on numbers I can’t believe the others haven’t got similar factions in their own ranks which go without being investigated. Is it the threat of hard left policies killing the country because a lot of these were presented quite sensibly. Was it the lack of a coherent Brexit policy when clearly nobody had one? Or was it the billionaire media owners who wanted to stay that way and convinced the red wall that Boris and JRM et al cared about them.

As I said, I’ve never seen in 36 years such a hammering in an election and subsequently a concentrated effort to expunge someone from public life and was wondering what he’d done to provoke these reactions.

popegregory

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PrinceRupert said:
It's because of his hard left socialist policies. They ain't that popular especially on PH which is full of right wing conservatives.
I appreciate that, especially as he’s not even remotely powerfully built, but they weren’t popular amongst the northern working class either where you might have suspected they could have struck a chord?

popegregory

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Gameface said:
Are you aware of his views/actions with regards to the IRA?
Similar to those which led to the GFA were they not?

popegregory

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TriumphStag3.0V8 said:
popegregory said:
Similar to those which led to the GFA were they not?
Absolutely not.
Condemned violence on all sides and encouraged talking?

popegregory

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AJL308 said:
I'll tell you my objection to him, something which I said time and time again during the election campaign. He's a deeply dangerous man. I mean really, really dangerous.
The lowest estimates for Iraq deaths was 150000. That’s quite dangerous? Blair’s not been purged from memory?

popegregory

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Hereward said:
popegregory said:
AJL308 said:
I'll tell you my objection to him, something which I said time and time again during the election campaign. He's a deeply dangerous man. I mean really, really dangerous.
The lowest estimates for Iraq deaths was 150000. That’s quite dangerous? Blair’s not been purged from memory?
Not going in to the Blair element but I am pretty sure Saddam started that war?

Also, your thread is about Corbyn, not Blair.
No, it’s querying why he’s been vilified and purged from political memory in a way that others haven’t. Blair kills 150000, Boris allegedly steals half a billion pounds, and JC is our collective national “never again” target.

popegregory

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Thanks all, this made for useful reading.