Left Foot Forward readers said Corbyn would be a better Labour leader
Jeremy Corbyn would be a better Labour Party leader than Owen Smith, according to Left Foot Forward readers.
Our online poll found 85 per cent of readers backing Corbyn against his challenger, as the two begin their campaigns for the party’s leadership. 
8,461 people voted in our poll, which launched on Wednesday 20 July and closed this morning.
We asked: Who would be a better Labour Party leader? Jeremy Corbyn / Owen Smith
Corbyn received 7,162 votes (84.9 per cent) to Smith’s 1,269 (15.1 per cent).
Thanks to everyone who voted.
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13 Responses to “Poll results: 85 per cent of readers back Jeremy Corbyn over Owen Smith”
Richard MacKinnon
There is a massive irony with articles published on LLF and Progressonline. They claim to be working for Labour and I don’t doubt their sincerity, but what is happening is the opposite; the harder they try the deeper and wider the division becomes within the party. They think they have to save Labour from its elected leader, but as they do the number of supporters he wins gets bigger.
Its is a fascinating time for political students, the sight of a political party self harming to such an extent it could go out of existence.
Is there a reason for it? I think there are. The three that I would propose as principals are,
1. neglecting the heartlands and the concerns of the core vote. A lot more could have been done to distribute wealth and prosperity for example civil service jobs out of London.
2. Tony Blair, and his illegal war. Blair is a war criminal. This has never been acknowledged by Labour.
3. Gordon Brown , and his total and abject ignorance of financial matters.
These are big indictments, the penalties deserve to be severe. Carry on the good works.
Cole
LFF is not a Labour blog and never has been. It is a site for a wide range of progressive views – Labour, LibDems, Greens and non aligned. There’s no reason they should suddenly become a cheerleader for Corbyn.
Boris Tabaksplatt
It is not surprising that Jeremy is favoured by the mass of Labour party supporters, especially since the failed coup to out him and his ideas about what our country needs to do to improve the spending power of wage earners.
All the members of my local CLP were in shock at the despicable actions of the revolting MPs. The Labour party was created to help the working man against their exploitive wealth bosses and the same holds true today. Following the shambles of the Brexit referendum, this was the ideal time to make inroads on the Tory manifesto and show how repressive and damaging to the economy their agenda has become, instead the majority of the PLP behaved like unruly school children having a bun-fight. Pathetic. They need to unite behind Jeremy Corbyn and start making progress again or resign and call a by election.
head in hands
left foot forward is supposed to deal in facts. How about some facts on the average %age reduction in votes received when an incumbent MP retires and a new ‘face’ stands. If I understand right then Corbyn is suggesting that we should take advantage of boundary changes to ‘remove’ recalcitrant MP’s. Given the size of the task will this make it more or less likely of the Labour win in 2020? Come on LLF help with this please.
Ian
The poll was on a par with asking which testicle you would like crushed.
Neither are good enough candidates for this party.
Here’s my checklist for a decent candidate and neither of them hits the spot well enough.
Left. Radical. Competent to run the party. Able to reach out and direct the thirst for change in the country. Intelligent. Sincere. Appealing.
You know, a decent Labour politician. Have we completely run out of them.