The things he says are not really at issue on this sort of forum.  Not to say there isn't a serious debate to be had on these, but this is hardly the point.

Actually, the carefully polished look had by most UK politicians is still, in sartorial terms, pretty terrible.  I can think of only a handful of MPs who even own a half-decent suit...Corbyn, on the other hand, seems to go out of his way to look like a 1980s polytechnic lecturer, which in many ways is admirable, even if it is not a look I would wish to emulate myself...

Maybe it is an admirable trait in a politician to not be overly concerned with superficial things?

He's been in Parliament for over 30 years yet, as Red Ken said, he doesn't own half a dozen houses and isn't getting a bung from some big corporation. I have no doubt that this failure to cash in on the opportunities open to him through his status as an MP marks him down as a prat in the eyes of the average Tory, and therefore totally unsuitable to be in office. But if all MPs had similar standards the UK might be a far better place to live. Corbyn represents a threat to the cosy arrangements that proliferate in the House which is why so many major figures, on both sides, have rushed to denounce him.

Er, you seem to forget he can't do anything without his parties backing. I'm just not seeing such a load of Tories in red changing tact because he wants them to.

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Reading some of the comments, it feels like the 70s never happened.

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