Wow, this article's author seems to have no understanding of the problems with Corbyn that led to Labour's crushing defeat.
For a start Bernie does not have the baggage of talking to Sinn Fein back at a time when the IRA was still actively bombing in England. While Corbyn's outreach was an early step towards the Good Friday Agreements, he does not get credit for his modest step to make way for the process. He does get a lot of animosity for talking to the political wing of what was considered a terrorist organization at the time.
Bernie is a popular Senator, while Corbyn has long been unpopular. Labor activists who aren't in Corbyn's Momentum faction kept reporting that while on the doorstep campaigning, they would be told over and over how much voters disliked Corbyn in Labour strongholds. Corbyn in all his years as a backbencher would never get called "the amendment king" like Bernie, because he has never been as effective at working with other parties.
Corbyn was a fool to give Boris Johnson the election in December. He basically threw his own party under the bus with that choice. He had a lot of power by denying a new election. Corbyn could have demanded before agreeing to a new election for Boris to ask the EU for a long extension to the deadline for brexit, and to have a second referendum.
In Septemeber all of brexit could have been stopped if Corbyn would have negotiated with other parties for a Government of National Unity. The issue came up, but Corbyn insisted he needed to be the PM of this GNU, but he is divisive enough and has long been something of a brexiteer, so that other parties (mostly the center right Lib Dems)feared having him as GNU PM.
Corbyn sat on the fence about brexit as long as he could, and his plan forward was to get into power and negotiate another withdrawl agreement, get it approved by the EU, then hold a second referendum. Making his plan take the better part of a year to a brexit weary populace. Without campaigning on a clear message.
Corbyn's manifesto for the election had great things in it, but he was not the right messenger. The Tories massively lied and dogded the press, and they had a brilliant motto of "Get Brexit Done" which was never explained that all Boris wanted was to leave the EU before the populace figured out what an ongoing clusterfuck brexit would be for years to come.
While on the surface Bernie and Corbyn may look a lot alike, and they have mutual respect for each other, but their histories, it's baggage, and the election situations are all quite different.
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Wow, this article's author seems to have no understanding of the problems with Corbyn that led to Labour's crushing defeat.
For a start Bernie does not have the baggage of talking to Sinn Fein back at a time when the IRA was still actively bombing in England. While Corbyn's outreach was an early step towards the Good Friday Agreements, he does not get credit for his modest step to make way for the process. He does get a lot of animosity for talking to the political wing of what was considered a terrorist organization at the time.
Bernie is a popular Senator, while Corbyn has long been unpopular. Labor activists who aren't in Corbyn's Momentum faction kept reporting that while on the doorstep campaigning, they would be told over and over how much voters disliked Corbyn in Labour strongholds. Corbyn in all his years as a backbencher would never get called "the amendment king" like Bernie, because he has never been as effective at working with other parties.
Corbyn was a fool to give Boris Johnson the election in December. He basically threw his own party under the bus with that choice. He had a lot of power by denying a new election. Corbyn could have demanded before agreeing to a new election for Boris to ask the EU for a long extension to the deadline for brexit, and to have a second referendum.
In Septemeber all of brexit could have been stopped if Corbyn would have negotiated with other parties for a Government of National Unity. The issue came up, but Corbyn insisted he needed to be the PM of this GNU, but he is divisive enough and has long been something of a brexiteer, so that other parties (mostly the center right Lib Dems)feared having him as GNU PM.
Corbyn sat on the fence about brexit as long as he could, and his plan forward was to get into power and negotiate another withdrawl agreement, get it approved by the EU, then hold a second referendum. Making his plan take the better part of a year to a brexit weary populace. Without campaigning on a clear message.
Corbyn's manifesto for the election had great things in it, but he was not the right messenger. The Tories massively lied and dogded the press, and they had a brilliant motto of "Get Brexit Done" which was never explained that all Boris wanted was to leave the EU before the populace figured out what an ongoing clusterfuck brexit would be for years to come.
While on the surface Bernie and Corbyn may look a lot alike, and they have mutual respect for each other, but their histories, it's baggage, and the election situations are all quite different.
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