And right there is the problem. The dogged ideology thing.
I'm sure that some politicians start off with grand ideas and good intentions but a brief period in Westminster and they soon realise that politics is not about straight lines.

The PLP are ambitious people who want to be in government. They are not content to shout abuse from the sidelines. Those who joined the party to vote Corbyn and push their ultra left wing agenda are living in cloud cuckoo land. Just because they are pursuing their heart felt ideology doesn't make it realistic or ever likely to be accepted by the majority. They are the kind of people who can only serve as a rent as crowd, criticising everything that the government does but given the chance to govern themselves, would not have a clue about real world problems.
And of course Britain would probably just surrender to Russia or ISIS or anyone who fancied the keys to the Kingdom.

Unlike the current private school bunch, who are absolutely in line with the man on the street (who, by that logic, wants to see tax cuts for corporations and the rich, depressed wages and privatization of public services).

Anyone who is cut throat and ambitious enough to sacrifice their principles to climb to the top of the greasy pole, paradoxically, probably should be banned from public office anyway!

One thing in Corbyn's favour, he at least offers a clear alternative to the right wing New Labour bunch. There's plenty of things that go against him of course, such as perceived unelectability... Maybe he needs to show some bouncebackability!

Ultra left is a relative term and right now Corbyn is as far left s you can get baring a Communist uprising.

And so much for his integrity voting to stay in the EU.

That good old freedom of movement has hit British wages hard.
What does the man of the people say about that?

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (28 Jul 2016 2.49pm)

Ultra left is a relative term and right now Corbyn is as far left s you can get baring a Communist uprising.

And so much for his integrity voting to stay in the EU.

That good old freedom of movement has hit British wages hard.
What does the man of the people say about that?

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (28 Jul 2016 2.49pm)

The research you are referring to did indeed show that British workers have suffered the biggest reduction in earning power, since the onset of the recession, for any country except Greece.
But this very fact showed that all the other countries in the EU did better. So it is not the EU that caused it but the fact that the Tories and their right wing Labour mates are the culprits - not the EU. Corbyn wanted to change the EU to protect workers whereas most Tories wanted to leave so they could take away the few workers' protections that the EU gave, such as the working Time directive, compulsory paid holidays etc.

Are you sure it's not because our population rose sharply?

Corbyn had zero Chance of changing anything in the EU since he has zero chance of being PM. Changing the EU from the inside was not realistic anyway as the last 40 years has shown.

I also seriously doubt that curtailing workers rights was top of the agenda or even on the agenda for any of the vast majority of Leavers.