JohnRawls wrote:By the way, viewing something favourable doesn't necessarily mean that people will vote for it. People are not fully rational beings and hence can be scared off on specific question, this is how Tories have operated to win. Even more severe case are Republicans in America on the topic.
The problem with Corbyn was always that it was so easy to send his policies in to the fear territory because they are so unknown and have been "unnatural" for lack of a better word for some time now.
Corbyn was part of two general elections, both have a story to tell, and each can be explained why results went the way they did.
The first thing you need to understand is the media have never liked Corbyn. He has links to Red Action and as such has links to radical organisations. Forget Hamas, association to the IRA is never a positive in our politics and hatred towards them is something that is bipartisan. So in the first election, May had a lead so big that in one of her walks in Wales, she thought, and rightly so, that one way to get through the Brexit mess was to have another election, get a massive lead and pass her bill that way. However she did one massive mistake. She knew Brexit was going to be expensive so in order to pay for it, she announced the worse manifesto in history. And Corbyn announced a manifesto of hope. What happened next can only be described as a miracle. That massive lead did what can only be described as a nose dive and May tried to row back on her bollocks manifesto but it was too late. She then had even worse number of MPs and had to form a coalition. Which then ended up in her having to resign and we ended up with Johnson. Had it not been for that manifesto, she would have been in power today, we still wouldn't be taking about NI and I expect would be getting along with France.
So what does that story say? Well it says that Corbyns policies are popular, even in the UK, and even if the politician who is behind them is being ostracised by the media. So why didn't he win the second election you might ask? Well a little thing called Brexit. You might have heard of it. I don't know. I don't think it was big news in Estonia. The last election was the Brexit election. The only policy anyone was interested on was Brexit. You were either a leaver or a remainer. The Tories couldn't break through the Red Wall without Brexit and Labour will rebuild it next time given that. And the numbers at that time was mainly for remain as showcased by the Lib Dems success in the European election. The issue was that even though Leave had less than 50% of the electorate, they only had two parties to vote for. Remain had three and with Labour that made four. So they were at a disadvantage. So what Corbyn did was try and fence sit. But it didn't work. If your offer was another referendum, that to leavers was as good as being a remainer and as such they went for Tories. Farage then did what can only be described as a master stroke and only fought in districts that Labour were likely to win (the red wall) and Swinson and Corbyn were fighting amongst themselves when they should have been cooperating.
Corbyn couldn't win the last election whatever policies he had. There was a question mark whether they were affordable in any case at the time, seems since Covid, it was proof his awesome 2019 manifesto was indeed affordable. But I digest, he couldn't win the last election and was ultimately was the factor that decided whether the Tories or the Lib Dems won I guess.