Posted: Jan 03, 2020 12:27 pm
Matt_B wrote:Or just maybe they can pick someone who can win in spite of the inevitable smear campaign. I'm pretty sure that MacDonald, Attlee and Wilson - and I'm not even mentioning that other guy - all faced a fervently pro-Tory press but still managed to win elections, and people even read the papers back then too.
The problem with Corbyn was not that he was smeared, it's that enough of the smears stuck in the minds of enough of the voters.
Other left-leaning parties like the Greens and the SNP didn't seem to suffer from this nearly as much though, which suggests that Corbyn presented a particularly easy target.
I do hope you're not labouring under the impression that my post was discussing what electability looks like, instead of bemoaning all the talking heads and twitterati who state with 100% certainty that this or that leader would have won hands down.