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The trouble with this is that Corbyn has done nothing whatsoever to oppose the Snooper's Charter or Brexit or the Psychoactive Substances Act or the (now delayed) attempt to neuter the House Of Lords (in fact I suspect he fully supports all of those).

What could he do? Step aside.




>Corbyn has done nothing whatsoever to oppose the Snooper's Charter or Brexit //

Corbyn campaigned on the ground against Brexit all over Britain. It largely wasn't reported on in the national press though. Actually getting out amongst the people is seemingly his thing.

Corbyn appears to be being a socialist, shock!, and not dictating the position people should take but suggesting a position and fronting the position of the members of his party.

My take on Corbyn is if you want him to act then get the Party to support it.


He expended orders of magnitude more effort on the ground campaigning for himself weeks later. Of course, one campaign might have involved him sharing a platform with other political parties (more unacceptable, in Jeremy Corbyn's head, than attending IRA funerals or events run by SWP front groups that fellow leftists pointedly asked him to boycott) and preferably not use his supposedly pro-EU speeches to dismiss the economic arguments they'd made in favour of staying in the EU. The other involved attend rallies of people that had turned out to deliver him unquestioning applause and adulation.

It's Corbyn's closest ally in the Labour Party who is now suggesting that anyone with the temerity to still think leaving the EU is a bad idea is "on the side of certain corporate elites". That's certainly not following the lead of the membership.

On the Snooper's Charter he abstained, and whipped his party into abstaining. You can't blame anybody but Jeremy Corbyn for that.


And be replaced by which Labour MP who opposes these, who has widespread support as potential leader?




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