The Gainsayers

Is it possible with all the aggressive press coverage and the rebellion in his own party, can Jeramy Corbyn stay the course and disprove all the gainsayers and lead his party to victory in the next election.

An example of how undemocratic the system is !!

And there lies the rub. If we look at the population and we look at the individual pools of voters split between the Conservatives, Labour, Liberals,UKIP, the SNP the Greens and Uncle Tom Cobly we see no party had a significant proportion of the vote. The Tory Party has more than 36% of the people who turned up to vote, ( massively short of those eligible to vote) and Labour had 30%.

These are the two camps (and I am talking of the rank and file voter, not the Politicians ). Tory (capitalist) Labour (socialist). Of the rest UKIP poled 12% and are a ragtag group largely held together by being anti EU but in many ways are more working class than Tory. The Liberals come next at 8%. Now the Liberals have much more in common with the socialists than being aligned with the conservative. Next the SNP who took 5% of the vote (all of it in Scotland) who are more socialist than Labour. And finally the Green Party 4% again who's members are much closer to socialism than Labour in many respects.

So you see whilst there is a large section of UKIP who would align themselves with the Conservatives the bulk of the rest would make much easier bedfellows with Labour especially if it rid itself of the Tony Blair, "son of Thatcher image".

The one thing that comes across about Corbyn is that, although he is a 'conviction' politician he is no ideologue and his reasoned tone and collaborative political message must be very appealing to those who support parties which, under the 'First Past the Post' anomaly have won, in UKIPs case only one seat in parliament, despite having polled 5 million voters. The Greens and the Liberals also attracted millions of voters but only obtained a handful of seats.

If there is any sense of commonality which I think Jeramy Corbyn will foster, given a chance, he could attract a following from the humanitarian Liberal community. Will the media which has been 'on his case' since he was elected, allow him the space to get a message across. And secondly his own party colleagues, the Blair / Brownites who sit in their barely disguised, middle of the road, junior Tory coalition, ill suited for socialism and yet not hard hearted enough to be proper Tories like George Osborn and Duncan Smith.

It's more interesting than the biased press make out and I hope Jeramy Corbyn is given the chance. He is like a beacon of light surrounded as he is by the grubby, glib totally disingenuous lot on both sides of the house.