“Anyone who reads that as ‘comparing Israel to ISIS’ needs to work on their comprehension skills. Weak as ****.”
We all know that there was nothing factually incorrect about his statement. Equally, it was an incredibly stupid thing to say, as the reaction to it was entirely predictable.
Well you’ve hit the nail on the head there. Corbyn is not a politician as we know politicians to be.
A senior politician, as we know them, would have had a team of advisors to carefully look at his prepared speech to see if it contained any potential hazards, like this obvious one.
The Tories, the Blairites, the media, are out to get Corbyn, they scrutinize every single word he utters to try and trip him up. As you say, this was entirely predictable.
But Corbyn speaks like a normal person, a normal functioning human being, the sort of person you meet normal life, not as a manufactured politician.
His supporters say that is Corbyn’s appeal – he is a normal person not a typical politician which voters have grown to dislike, distrust, and been put off by.
His critics say he’s not a proper politician and lacks the skills to be one, as this latest incident shows.
The question is who will the voters back? Corbyn’s critics say not someone who they describe as “decent and honest” but someone more like those who voters have grown to dislike and distrust.
I suspect that his critics might be right, although I am very far from convinced. However this is a moot point as the overwhelming majority of the Labour Party has clearly made their decision, ie, to try a different approach.
