My main worry about him was the lack of clear policies that would have been put in place to actually bring about things like a fairer distribution of wealth, a better NHS, a more effective Welfare system.
He just “pointed” out failings of present system and said “we must do better”, but never really spelt out the detail of what was needed to do that in any convincing way.
I have the same concern about present Labour Party under Sir Keir’s apparently very different leadership. I’ll vote Labour with the hope they turn out to be slightly less crap than the Tories. But I won’t be doing it enthusiastically.
Corbyn's policies and outlook looked to still be rooted in the 1970's however the world has moved on and people simply didn't want it as they still remember the turmoil and upheaval of strikes etc
The guy was always against being in Europe so was actually the only leader with a true belief in Brexit but even then he couldn't come out and say "Great we are out" but instead fudged it and said we would have another vote on it
Labour / Starmer have been vague on policy details as they knew if they announced anything then the Tories were likely to jump on board and steal the idea then try and claim it was theirs, it did happen with the Non Dom tax arrangements
What we now need to see are proper details on policies to differentiate between the parties however the IFS has warned of a dark cloud hanging over public finances with tax rises and / or cuts to services required, the other option is to simply borrow more and then pay more interest -
There's a major problem here as no party is going to say they intend to increase tax or cut services as it's a vote loser, Labour have another issue in that their image appears to be forever tarnished from 40+ years ago that they can't be trusted with the economy and this is despite the country seeing the best 10 years of economic stability and sustained growth after they got elected back in 97, go figure
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