Praying For Miracles
Observer columnist Andrew Rawnsley hit the nail on the head with his withering assessment of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party.
In Jeremy Corbyn, Labour offers a candidate for Number 10 who has achieved the astonishing feat of being even less trusted with the premiership than the incumbent. If the Tories win this election, no account of their victory will be complete without analysing the critical role played in that outcome by their greatest collaborators, the Corbynite cadre who control the Labour party. After nearly a decade of often chaotic, frequently failing and bitterly divided Conservative government that has presided over an era of austerity, this ought to have been an election the principal party of opposition had confident hopes of winning. Yet Labour ends this campaign as it began: trailing the Tories. Its fantastical wishlists of promises are not believed and it has a candidate for Downing Street who plumbs depths of unpopularity never previously visited by any British opposition leader.
Under any other leader Labour would be romping ahead in the polls.
If Boris Johnson gets back to No 10 he will have Jeremy Corbyn to thank
By Andrew Rawnsley - TheObserver
Against a decade-old Tory government led by a charlatan, Labour should be confident of winning, not praying for a last-minute miracle
One of my colleagues recently recalled that, in advance of the 2015 general election, we spent quite a lot of time preparing a run of spreads about what to expect from the Ed Miliband premiership. That Labour government happened only in his dreams and our abandoned page plans. This reminds us that the results of all of our recent elections have surprised expectations. This is not just because pollsters find it harder to get an accurate read on the electorate, pundits are often poor at deciphering the runes and voters have become less anchored to traditional allegiances. It is also because Britain’s archaic electoral system means that fluctuations in the intentions of small numbers of people can have a wildly disproportionate impact on the outcome.
Against a decade-old Tory government led by a charlatan, Labour should be confident of winning, not praying for a last-minute miracle
One of my colleagues recently recalled that, in advance of the 2015 general election, we spent quite a lot of time preparing a run of spreads about what to expect from the Ed Miliband premiership. That Labour government happened only in his dreams and our abandoned page plans. This reminds us that the results of all of our recent elections have surprised expectations. This is not just because pollsters find it harder to get an accurate read on the electorate, pundits are often poor at deciphering the runes and voters have become less anchored to traditional allegiances. It is also because Britain’s archaic electoral system means that fluctuations in the intentions of small numbers of people can have a wildly disproportionate impact on the outcome.
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