If the general consensus is that Corbyn is useless and is only popular with "hard left" supporters, I don't know why virtually all the media coverage is so intent on discrediting him. Why waste so much time insisting that Labour can never win? Why not focus on the wonderful achievements of the Conservatives since they came into power? Achievements like:
Telegraph May 2015
"The Rich Listers are over 100 per cent better off than they were 10 years ago, this despite most of the decade being taken up by the worst recession since the 1930s. By contrast, the average Briton is only as well off as they were before the financial crisis (by some measures they may be worse off)."
Child Poverty Action Group June 2016
"In 2014-15, UK child poverty increased by 200,000 to 3.9 million(after housing costs;
66% of poor children live in working families (up from 64%);
London remains UK region with highest rate of child poverty (37%)
Mirror April 2017
"Tens of thousands of disabled people have had their specially adapted cars and scooters taken away in a cruel Tory benefits shake-up.
"Latest figures from Motability show 51,000 people have lost access to the scheme after they were reassessed for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) - a new benefit launched in 2013.
"Charity Muscular Dystrophy UK said 900 cars are now being taken away every week, as more people are rejected for PIP."
The I February 2017
"The NHS faces a future funding crisis because not enough doctors and nurses are being recruited to replace the large number who are due for retirement. ....... A similar issue is also looming in nursing, with the number of recruits plummeting by 23 per cent due to the removal of the Government’s bursary scheme and applications from the European Union plunging by 90 per cent due to Brexit."
Guardian October 2016
"Almost a quarter of a million children and young people are receiving help from NHS mental health services for problems such as anxiety, depression and eating disorders, figures show.
"The scale of the growing crisis in young people’s mental wellbeing is laid bare with the disclosure that 235,189 people aged 18 and under get specialist care, according to data covering 60% of mental health trusts in England...." (Guardian October 2016)
Shelter February 2016
"....... 29% of private renters have ended up moving three or more times in the last five years. In London that number rises to 37%...."
Mirror March 2017
"Hundreds of bus routes across the country have been scrapped thanks to Government cuts, according to exclusive new research.
"The Campaign for Better Transport study shows £30m has been cut from local authority budgets.
"And it has seen more than 500 routes lost, often leaving people isolated and cut off from major cities.
"The research also shows that since 2010 over £100million, 33 per cent, has been cut from local authority bus funding ...."
Independent Living Nov 2016
"Last year, patients with malnutrition accounted for 184,528 hospital bed days, compared with 65,048 in 2006-07.........
"Many point to service cuts, such as the sharp reduction in provision of meals on wheels, as a significant factor in the growth of malnutrition........
"According to FOI figures obtained last year by Liz Kendall when she was shadow Care Minister, by late 2014 the number of people receiving meals on wheels had gone down by 220,000, compared with 2010; a decrease of 63%."
Business Insider April 2017
"The Government has wasted £138.5 million of taxpayers' money on 62 free schools, university technical colleges (UTCs), or studio schools which have either been closed, partially closed, or failed to open at all, according to The National Union of Teachers."
Mirror March 2017
"A survey found one in six state schools has sent letters to families asking for contributions of £20 a month or more for around 1.4 million kids....
"Horsell Village School in Woking, Surrey, needs to plug a £65,000 black hole and pleaded with parents to send £20 a month by standing order.......
"The school featured in the fly-on-the-wall Channel 4 documentary Educating Essex may have to axe “about a quarter” of its teachers."
My belief is that it would make no difference if Corbyn were to be replaced with someone else - if that person also espoused the same views as Corbyn re the short-sightedness of imposing cuts of this nature which will in the long term damage the health and wellbeing of the country as a whole. It is the ideas that Corbyn puts forward that our pro-Conservative media dislikes and it is fear of those ideas ever being taken seriously that leads to the constant onslaught of ridicule and criticism against him and those that support him. No doubt some Labour MPs were perfectly happy (with the odd ineffectual murmurings of discontent to evidence their supposed Labour credentials) to go along with Tory-lite policies rather than alienate the media.
