Beginning to distrust Jeremy Corbyn

Better late than never to come to that conclusion MOnica 100/1000s of us knew that a long long time ago.

What took you so long.

And his long-awaited 'Ten Pledges' are actually eleven...don't let him loose on the economy if he ever gets into power!

I voiced my change of opinion of him some time ago, now I will repeat - he is a hypocrite, he mocked Cameron for appointing staff to the lords , said 'he has lots of friends ' then he sends Shami to the lords , she joined the party a few months ago, did a two month independent review into allegations of anti semitism in the party, declared the party clear and then gets into the lords , I am bloody furious, ashamed and disgusted .

I read a young girls post on Twitter - we are not a cult, we adore Jeremy and will follow him. Damn sickening , he is using these young people, i think he is either wicked or unbalanced , he doesn't give a damn about the party he is on a mega ego trip and destroying the party . We now have a tory government for at least ten years .

Shame on you Corbyn, you are not fit to speak Nye Bevans name

I saw Jeremy, along with the other leadership contenders during the campaign which he won. I didn't vote for him but given the numbers who did, felt I should support him and give him six months to convince me I was wrong about him. I hung on for 8 months before finally concluding I don't trust him, don't believe he could ever win an election and also, don't believe he would be a good leader for the country.

I've joined Anniebach on a number of these threads which discuss him in expressing despair about what is happening to the Labour party. I don't think he's wicked or unbalanced Annie but I do believe he doesn't care whether he wins the next election. He seems to believe he's leading some kind of social movement. How he thinks that is going to change anything if Labour can't win an election I don't know but as I've said, I'm now convinced he doesn't care whether he wins the next election. He and John McDonell, Dianne Abbot and co. seem to live in a kind of haze, seeing themselves as all powerful and worse, as the only people in politics who have principles or morality. Hah!

Its sad to hear that you've been so badly let down Anniebach. No one could ever doubt your faith in your party. Its a shame to see how things have degenerated so quickly. We need a strong coherent opposition.

Wow Anniebach. You really meant that.

He stood in the spot in Merthyr where my ancestors stood during the Merthyr rising , do read Merthyr rising 1831, it was the start of the ref flag, people held a red flag and a loaf of bread because of the suffering they were enduring . The man should be given an Oscar,

The press reported several hundred turned up to hear Judas Corbyn, the population of Merthyr alone is 62,500 and considering there is such high unemployment not s great turn out .

Yes I am angry, this is 2016 not 1831 , it took untill 1900 before the Labour Party was formed by good, caring, honourable men, this judas doesn't care about the party , he just wants to be a leader , sod the poor, disabled, unemployed , judas is going to change the world from the oposition benches

Cameron had more principles than this judas

Jane, my faith is in what my party should be standing for ,

He voted against the Labour party 500 times before? Was he ever really cheering for the Labour Party?

I wouldn't go that far, anniebach. (about Cameron)

The things is though, if he has say 2/3 of Labour Party support, who is the Labour Party? It could be argued that he is.

It could be said that the Labour Party has lurched a lot further to the left? I am confusing myself!

Anniebach I feel for you - my father was of the generation who voted labour for all its real life principles.

Good question, obieone. He would appear to have the support of 2/3 of those eligible to vote in the leadership contest, but they're only a fraction of the people who are eligible to vote in an election and he doesn't have the confidence of the majority of his own MPs.

If Labour is ever to have a majority in the HoP, it needs to look at keeping the voters it already has and winning back huge numbers it's lost over the years. Even then, the loss of Scottish Labour MPs and boundary changes will probably mean that it will need to come to some kind of alliance with other parties.

He has the charisma and presence of a used tea bag, half of his shadow cabinet have no faith in him, he presents him self as a scruffy oik, (can you really see him as PM, engaging with other world leaders?)

I have very little time for those who say "I have always voted (fill as applicable) such as a woman interviewed on Radio 4 last week who said that she always voted Labour, but admitted that she had no idea what Corbyn's policies were

I rarely comment on politics, but surely Labour can come up with someone that has the support of key players, and at least might make a credible representative of the U.K on an international stage?

Tin helmet time!

Daphne, there isn't a hope of Labour gaining power , the country doesn't want to go back in years, this was how Mandalson and Blair won three elections, they moved centre not far left.

A lot of Labour Party supporters didn't used to mind his used tea bag look. I wonder if they do now?!

I always think if people cannot bother to dress themselves appropriately for the job they are doing, they do not really care about what it is they are suuposed to represent.

The Labour party has several who would make good leaders, but Judas Corbyn is in the hands of Momentum which I now believe was set up to destroy the Labour Party

There seems no stopping him ab judging by the court ruling today. It's as if he's become a sort of cult among the young. It's weird and alarming, and heaven only knows what the end of it will be for the Labour party.

Niggly,i said some time ago there was a cult formed, people are voting believing if they have enough labour members voting for him he will win the general election, he is allowing, even strengthening this belief . He will win the leadership election but not a general election

Jomarie , your father voted for socialist principles as do I,

But what if all these new members joined to get him out?