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Now the Labour leadership race is down to Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith, who do you think would be better at the job?
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57 Responses to “Poll: Who would be a better Labour Party leader – Jeremy Corbyn or Owen Smith?”
Janis Garbutt
Jeremy on 88%.My first vote was Wilson I’ve never left Labour,but never been so delighted.Owen Smith was a lobbyist for Pfizer,believes in privatisation.The fight is on and tens of thousands of us are not prepared to let the dissenting PLP to revert our party back to corporate top down policies.I note Smith is spouting Jeremys policies,this will not become a reality under his watch,he is not trustworthy.
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If I want to vote for a middle of the road but slightly left leaning party I will vote conservative.
No point voting for a slightly left leaning labour party, I don’t care to argue about benefit or social budget changes which amount to very loud shouting over what amounts to a 5% difference.
Corbyn represents a proper swing to the left. Labours failure is that they can’t convince people to vote for more leftist policies and instead want to compete with the Tories on the middle road.
Paul Browne
Owen Smith is a dodgy second hand car salesman. I could never vote for him. Just another Bliar.
Patricia Holgate
Jeremy Corbyn is principled and consistent. He really cares about inequality, poor people’s lives, and opposing the obscenity which is Trident. My only reservation, or question, is: is JC flexible enough to ride the winds of change which are blowing through politics? Would he be willing to abandon Labour to the Blairites and form a new and electable alliance with other progressive socialist groups? I just wish he were 10 years younger, and not an old, white male.
Robert Jones
I’ve no wish to join in the throwing of mud at Owen Smith, though I was fairly appalled by his performance (and Angela Eagle’s was worse) on the Andrew Marr show, but I just don’t know enough about him to vote for him as leader. if he’s hoping to attract votes from Corbyn, he’s going to have to make a huge effort to connect with us all before we vote – I don’t understand why the PLP is putting forward a virtual unknown as the challenger to Corbyn: do they really have no one else? Do they actually WANT Smith to win? Or is there another game altogether in town – one that will make this whole put-up job of an election even more farcical than it already is?
Surely, if the PLP were serious about defeating Jeremy Corbyn, they would put someone of proven substance against him – Hilary Benn, Yvette Cooper, Dan Jarvis, Andy Burnham – handicapped by saying he couldn’t support a coup – even a return for Ed Miliband? I don’t understand the logic – or if I do, I don’t like where it’s leading me. I cannot believe that Owen Smith is a candidate the PLP either expects or wants to win: he’s the man from the remote North of Nowhere at this stage in his Parliamentary career, and encapsulates in his own person the reasons why this is an election we should never have been forced into. If Corbyn had no experience of leadership – where does that leave Owen Smith? He may for all I know be unfairly maligned (hardly alone in that, though, is he?) but it does seem to me you can only vote for him, unless you know him personally, if your preferred option is “anyone but Corbyn”.