Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
How can they still be polling level with the Tories? What more evidence do people want of the kind of people Corbyn, McDonnell and Abbott are? I remember someone on here standing up for him on the grounds that 'he's a good MP'. So the virulent anti-semitism, hatred of the UK, support for terrorism and record of lying is irrelevant because 'he's a good MP'? It sounds utterly bonkers to me, but if that's how 'the people' (God help us) think, and these people are allowed a vote, we're in a great deal of trouble.
Granted, I find it extraordinary the number of moderate, apparently sane and reasonable Labour moderates who will acknowledge all those things and still vote Labour. I despair at the blinkered stupidity, tribalism and narrow-mindedness it takes to behave like that. However, polling level with the Tories at the moment is a genuinely terrible situation for Labour, given that their support is almost always over-estimated (particularly now in the light of them being under-estimated by pollsters in the last election and the over-compensation that's taking place).
I still maintain that Corbyn's result last year was a misplaced and ill-thought-out protest vote against Brexit rather than any signal of a widespread acceptance of what we'll laughingly refer to his 'ideas'. I don't think most of the people who voted Labour last time thought for a minute it would mean a Corbyn government. Had they done so, I suspect things might have been different.
It was also the worst election campaign I've ever seen from a Tory party - ever.

Those factors will be significantly different in any new election.