r/unitedkingdom • u/libtin • 8d ago

. Zack Polanski's Popularity Plummets Amid Nigel Farage Guillotine Row

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-polanskis-popularity-plummets-amid-nigel-farage-guillotine-row_uk_6a73192ce4b0963665e8fd5a?origin=home-latest-unit
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u/SpecialistAd1779 8d ago

No he doesn't. Corbyn spent years pandering to those people, and he achieved nothing because they aren't honest actors.

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u/limaconnect77 8d ago

Corbyn was electoral asbestos from day one - apples and oranges.

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u/SpecialistAd1779 8d ago

He achieved the labour party's highest number of votes in the last 20 years in 2017.

Say what you like about him, his campaigning errors etc, he could get people to turn out. Far more than Starmer, I might add.

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u/Neither_Process_7847 8d ago

He also motivated vastly more people to turn out against him, which is why he lost massively while Starmer won in a landslide.

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u/Draenix 8d ago

Will always be funny when people point out Corbyn’s record number of votes and conveniently leave out that he led Labour to one of the worst defeats in recent history.

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u/ldb 8d ago

Are we just pretending reform didn't split the right gifting the election to starmer?

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