Up Shit Creek, with no paddle, and no fucking canoe…

The main reason that Labour lost the last election was that swing voters did not perceive Ed Miliband to be a prime minister in waiting. When the individual Labour policies were polled, they did very well. In fact, raising the minimum wage closer to a living wage was stolen by the Tories, and OFGEM is now considering the sort of price controls that were ridiculed by the right wing press at the time. Ed’s nickname at the Treasury was ‘Brains’ — he was acknowledged to be very bright and knowledgeable. He was a bit awkward on the public stage, and that’s what sank him: the right wing press saw a slight opening, and they wrenched it open.

Now imagine what is going to happen to Corbyn, and to an even worse extent McDonnell, who has an even worse track record on IRA sympathising (and yes, that’s exactly what it was). Whilst CND has a lot of support in the Labour party, the country on the whole backs the UK retaining nuclear weapons. The press and the political advertising from the other side will present Corbyn and McDonnell as terrorist sympathising appeasniks, bent on the subjugation of Britain under the Red flag. If Corbyn thinks the heat on him is bad now, just wait for a general election campaign. The Tories will attack him and his inner circle’s personal credibility, because they know that the public on the whole are not raging right wingers bent on the destruction of the welfare state, but that they won’t vote for a weak leader. Corbyn is a weak leader, who throughout a parliamentary career longer than my lifetime (32 years) never demonstrated any other ability than to be a spanner in the works. He will be crushed. No amount of Momentum rallies or Facebook memes will change that.