Sunday 7 August 2016
The reason Labour MPs / Corbyns former economic advisers oppose Jeremy Corbyn is his ineptitude - in their own words
Two former economic advisors to
Jeremy Corbyn have dealt a major blow to the Labour leader by backing his
rival, Owen Smith, in the party’s leadership contest. David Blanchflower, who
used to be a member of the Bank of England’s MPC, said Corbyn was ‘absolutely,
completely unelectable’. Whilst Simon Wren-Lewis told the Guardian
the current Labour leader wouldn’t ‘even come close’ to winning a 2020 general
election. The labour MPs see this - both in the Commons and on the doorsteps. The unavoidable truth is that Twitter + rallies do not translate into persuasion of the vast majority of the electorate that Corbyn needs to persuade.