Nigel Farage must be bored now all the meeja have turned on Corbyn... he won't know what to do with himself.

With regard to the anthem thing... it's pretty stupid to have aspirations to be Prime Minister then openly show a blatant disrespect for the Queen and her subjects by not joining in with the anthem at such a high profile event.

Either ditch your principles, or ditch your aspirations.

If Rooney can adapt, so can Corbyn.

How is it nonsense? And I don't think it's disrespectful. You can have the utmost respect for people that served in World War Two as well as not ultimately believing in everything that GSTQ stands for.

If he did sing it he's probably end up getting caned for being a hypocrite.

What you mean like Joining the Queens Privy Council, (ensuring over 6 million of funding in the process) when he will bow before the queen and kiss her hand ?

All this this despite not singing the NATIONAL Anthem.

Blokes a two faced snidey little t w a t t he probably got bullied at school.

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

I don't have the time nor inclination to read through every post on this topic, so apologies if I am repeating things.So just a few mutterings on my part.

It is obvious that the guy will have a big battle on his hands over the next few years. Firstly from within his own party, but also from without.

It goes without saying the Tories will wage a concerted campaign against him, but so too will the "establishment". The right-wing press will do everything in their power to discredit him and ensure he doesn't win the next election. Business leaders will no doubt do likewise. The intention will be to create an overriding fear in the public of what a Corbyn led country would be like - high taxes, union strife etc.

He has obviously resonated with a segment (s) of society - young, unemployed, poorly paid, ethnic minorities, students, long-term ideological socialists. But he is going to have to win over many more if he is going to be PM. If he is to stand a chance he has to come up with some new and exciting ideas that don't just rely on rehashed 1970s socialist dogma.

The fact is that the political consensus took a move to the right during the Thatcher years, and although it has to an extent moved some way back in the other direction in the intervening years, some Thatcherite philosophy has become entrenched. This means that whereas some of his ideas may have seemed unexceptional in the 1970s, they now sound and feel out of kilter with the 21st century.

This is where he has to offer something different and fresh to make people think that perhaps he is not just a left-wing dinosaur. It could be on pensions,Europe, economic growth, financing the NHS, education, housing, or whatever. But he has got to offer a a new vision that doesn't appear to just entail business bashing, jacking up taxes, and creating an anti-entrepreneurial atmosphere.

He will have to embrace and gain the confidence of more than just the dispossessed and under-privileged to have a cat in hells chance of being PM.

The only "Vision" is the hard-left politics of envy and social division. In fact one senior Labour figure described Corbyn as an "Early 80s Trotskyist tribute act".
Corbyn embodies a form of extreme Socialism, so old that many have forgotten how dangerous it can be.The Labour party is in chaos.

Edited by Willo (16 Sep 2015 11.11am)

That's not true at all, and I can see why people perceive it differently. I just find it weird that people are so p*ssed off about it when there's a million and one other things more important in the world.