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”
David Potter
We have to keep Jeremy Corbyn as the leader. The Labour party needs to get back to its roots, with the full support of the members behind him.
All the rest can be de-selected and fresh MPs put in place.
John Woods
Well, what do, or should anyone, expect, even from LFF readers. If JC was a good, bad or indifferent leader and most of us have had nearly a year to make up our minds this would have been apparent long ago. It took me until December (three months is long enough to judge anyone in a new job), never mind a new profession. The Front Bench is a new profession to someone who never even achieved PPS (or bag carrier to everyone else) previously in a career of 32 years in the Commons. After three months I expected him to resign but then it was explained to me by serious political commentators in the Guardian and Observer that being leader was not what he was about. He was about converting the Labour Party from a Parliamentary Party to a pressure group/protest group/ anything except an alternative government group, and it looks as if he has succeeded. Even the Leader in the Lords has given up on him, after a complete Parliamentary year during which he has taken credit for achievements that he had taken no part in, and had not even turned up for meeting of the relevant committee. Please come to your senses. This is a greater challenge to the future of the Labour Party than Militant or Entryism when the CPGB decided to disband and advised its members to join Labour and take it over. They failed but the insider is achieving all they wanted to achieve.
ted francis
No one questions JC’s (apt acronym) sincerity, principles, integrity or the correctness of his wishes to transform the party. But come on this politics, dirty, nasty, illogical politics. Virtue doesn’t win votes out there in the real world and JC is no Hercules to clean up the Augean stable that is the current Party. I voted for him because I thought a man with all those years’ experience of the “bubble” and observances from the back benches would have the nous to get in there, carry the fight to the Tories and score a huge number of points. But it didn’t happen did it? Where are the giants that Labour used to breed – Hardy, Bevan, Bevin, Gaitskell, Smith, Castle, Braddock, Kinnock ( yes)? Whatever their warts they were all BIG people, tenacious fighters who could worry and even frighten the opposition by attacking their weaknesses and undermining their strengths. For better or worse we supported them, voted for them and, more significantly, so did the electorate out there. Whatever you may think, the past year has shown that none of that is happening today. There’s a shabby, poisonous blame-game syndrome that is all too prevalent and its being played by pygmies.