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 Labour are weak and Corbyn should resign (5)

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Labour are weak and Corbyn should resign

The main reason why they gained seats in this year's election was because Corbyn lied to gullible students that he would wipe out student debt. At any rate he still failed to oust May's government.
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They've even had 'war games' planning how to react to the run on the pound should they win the next election.

This in itself is evidence that they realize themselves that their unaffordable socialist spending spree would be met with international condemnation.

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How dare they be prepared for economic scenarios? The absolute gall of John McDonnell doing his job! These silly communists, next thing you know they'll be thinking about how to prevent nuclear war!

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Neanderthal man wants to bring the nation back to the 1970s when inflation peaked at 26.7% and most of the country's public service workers were on strike.

He is the epitome of the left wing loony who lives in cloud cuckoo land believing that the rich will let a socialist government ''appropriate'' their dosh to give it to life's losers.

The wealth creators simply relocate their businesses somewhere else and leave the socialists wallowing in the mire of endless borrowing.

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His policies are like a replay of Harold Wilson's old style ultra left wing Labour government which dragged Britain to the edge of bankruptcy and had it labelled, 'the sick man of Europe'.

During the Wilson/Callaghan disastrous term in office a pro British American journalist wrote, 'Goodbye Britain, it was nice knowing you.

Corbyn wants you all to jump aboard his Delorean vehicle when he will transport everyone 'BACK TO THE FUTURE.

As one of these "gullible students" you speak of, I can assure you that simply isn't true. The majority of us did not vote based on one policy, we voted based on a variety of different reasons.

First of all, the Tories were never going to win the student/youth vote even if they had attempted to cater to our interests. Why? Because we find them utterly despicable and detest how the younger generation has been treated by the Conservative government. I know of people who aren't even a fan of Corbyn, but voted for Labour because of their hatred of the Tories.

I think you're also missing the fact that Labour's education policies overall were so much better than the Conservative's wonky and dated manifesto. May has shown she's completely out of touch and clueless about the younger generation and education in general. In fairness, though, the Tories have never had a good track record when it comes to education and May never had any hope of changing that. Grammar schools? Really? Is that your best idea?

"Free university" was an appealing policy, yes, and I personally don't think the way Corbyn announced it was very achievable. University needs a huge drop in price but I personally don't support completely free university education. Grants and loans can still exist to make sure poorer students don't have to pay, but I think it's reasonable to ask families which are more well off to do so.

When the right attack Corbyn, there's almost a bingo game you can play: "terrorist sympathiser", "bribing students", "sending us back to the 70's", etc. None of them are actually valid criticisms on their own. You need to support those criticisms with an actual argument outside of just "omg communist!".

Corbyn was definitely attempting to "bribe" students (not the word I'd use, but valid I suppose), however it's ridiculous to claim that it's the only reason Labour won so many seats. Even with the student vote, that's only a fraction of the population of the UK. Labour won the amount of seats they did because people are sick of the lies and corruption of the Tories and want change. The Conservatives won't stay in power; no government ever does. It's a natural cycle.

I also disagree with this idea that "Labour are weak". That's simply not true, and in fact Labour are the strongest they've been since Blair. You cannot deny that Corbyn has, despite the odds, completely united the Labour party and built a massive amount of support. A year ago the party under Corbyn was a divided mess. People were actually predicting that the party would split into two because of it - me included (I certainly wasn't a fan of Corbyn at the time!). He's turned that around perfectly, and now it's actually the Tories who are in shambles. A leader with little support from her own party, no viable or sensible option for replacement, a car crash of a manifesto which has had many policies abandoned, a supply and demand coalition which is openly rebelling against their partner? It's a catastrophe.

The person who needs to resign is May - however, I hope she doesn't, because Theresa May as leader means the death of the Tories next election.