I still don't know what
to make of Jeremy Corbyn. It's difficult to make your mind up when
you have two opposing parties, for and against Corbyn, shouting at
full voice in each ear. On one hand you have the media which, in
general, makes Corbyn out to be a serious danger to the security of
the country. Whether it's not nodding in the right way or not being a
fashion icon to far more serious concerns, it's clear they have it in
for him. On the other side you have the supporters of Corbyn.
Supporters who have gained a reputation for being aggressive going on
psychopathic. If anyone in the media/public eye, in fact just anyone,
says anything bad about Corbyn they're often personally attacked as
well as being dismissed as a Blairite/Tory/Undercover lizard.
It's the aggression of
these Corbyn supporters I'm trying to understand here. For a man who
wanted introduce a new kind of friendly politics, many, not all, of
his supporters have taken that as a sign of being extremely hostile
to others. I admit it does put me off the new Labour leader. I try to
restrict my views to his policies and what he actually does. Yet,
people fearing to criticise him for fear of being shouted down, makes
me want to criticise him. At the same time, I think I understand
their anger. Deep down they know they're stuffed. The chances of
Corbyn winning in 2020 are negligible unless the Tories do something spectacularly stupid. That's a possibility but even then, the public
are not going to take that massive risk they see as voting for
Corbyn. I mean, they saw Ed Miliband as a massive risk.
His supporters are also
angry because the Tories are being very Tory at the moment. Cutting
back on everything and attacking the poorest and most vulnerable in
society. Corbyn supports know they are powerless to stop it through
the ballot box. So they turn to more extreme measures. Ideally
though, they should listen to their leader. Moderation would be the
best way forward. People are indeed open to the idea of a new kind of
friendly politics. In turn, they would even be more open to some of
his policies. The sooner those over aggressive supporters of Corbyn
realise this, the better they're chances are of seeing those
miraculous headlines in 2020 actually happen.
