The funny thing about Corbyn is that he's essentially a Saint, which is why the smears have always been so ludicrous. The man hardly has a mean bone in his body, which was precisely the problem, sadly. https://t.co/xTA2mXVBph

— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) October 30, 2020

Yeah, he seems like a generally good guy. The UK will be worse off for decades because they (like America) are going fascist lite and discarding leaders like him.

But he was a bit spineless, and that was his doom. However, it’s exceptionally rare to find the necessary ruthlessness in concert with being generally good. That’s a one in a million combo. FDR is the last political leader actually elected to high office I can think of in the US who had both qualities. Probably Al Gore, too, but he didn’t win the only election that mattered.

Corbyn needed more Dexter and less Henri La Fontaine.