Jeremy Corbyn ! is he a revelation or a disaster ?

Well !

Politics ! what an interesting drama stage ? scenes change day to day and the impossibilities become possible and the possibilities changes to be impossible.

Is this why Harold Wilson said " two weeks is a long time in Politics ".

Whether anyone like it or not it is a fact Jeremy Corbyn is the Labour leader now . And he has been selected as a leader with a thumping majority .

Political pundits were predicting so many different scenarios . One of which was that the Labour MP`s have already started to plot how to get rid of Jeremy as leader of the party.

Well how can they when he has been backed by almost 60 % of the party members. Would they not go against the grain of the party ?

Then the reality is to stomach the fact that Jeremy Corbyn is the leader at least for the next couple of  years and see how any damage limitation can be done ?

Then again who are we to say that what Jeremy says will damage the labour party. If that was true then how on earth he was elected as the leader.

Ah ! now we come to the point it is not the supporters who does not like what Jermy says but his parliamentary colleagues who thinks that Labour will not be in a position to be elected as government for the foreseeable future.

It is true that what the majority of the Labour party supporters want may be out of line with the general electorate of the country hence it is possible that Labour party may be assigned to the opposition benches for the foreseeable future.

Is that such a bad thing ?

Let us see what the main policy noises that Jeremy Corbyn makes .

• Unilateral disarmament of nuclear deterrent

Well it is damaging in my point of view given the current world trend, Then again who am I to have an opinion ? I am just a Jo blog who only has one vote !

• Nationalisation of National Rail and essential utilities

 I as an ordinary Jo Blog has nothing against this policy. I can understand the concerns of the share holders but if the government is proposing to buy back the shares at a reasonable rate then why not ? In most developed countries I am sure that the Utilities and the rail service are still in the hands of the state.

• Opposing the austerity measures and benefit cuts

I have great concerns about it. The basic sensible way to live is to live within your means. Then there must be some form of control on the expenditure and the savings need to be identified and adopted. In the benefit front while the majority of the claimants are genuine there are misuses within the system which needed to be ironed out but to what extend > well i am not an expert.
But one thing is sure there should not be a blanket opposition to austerity there may be some individual cuts need to be looked at and readjusted

• Rent control and the right to buy extended to private rented accommodation

Some form of rent control is fine. But it has to be reasonable for both the tenant and the landlord. I am totally against the extension of the right to buy schems to the private properties. It will only act against the available accommodation to rent.

Well apart from this there is a general opinion out there that Jeremy Corbyn is supporter of extreme groups that fight in their countries. It is not necessary that he should have same principle even after taking the office of the opposition leader. It is quiet possible that he could reform his opinions and in my view need to be given a chance to explain himself.

I am a first generation immigrant who came to this country some 40 years ago. Naturally there is an expectation for me to support Labour party and specially a person like Jeremy with his left orientation.

I have no shame in admitting that I was a very strong Labour supporter until few years ago. But I am of the opinion that Labour party does not want to support the people who work hard and elevate themselves to a position of comfort and classify them as some one who needs to be curtailed.

The fault of Jeremy and the group may be putting all in the same basket without realising that the examples of aspiration should be encouraged.

So where are we in my opinion with the current Labour party difficulties ?

The one thing that I keep on hearing all side of the political arguments is that Jeremy Cprbyn as a person is a very decent gentleman. It was also evident in the PM question time last Wednesday.

I too sympathise with the centre left MP`s who think that the Jermy Corbyn led Labour party will be a bad news for Labours chances of victory.

While it is nice to hear all the hard left speeches we have to understand that the times have changed.

The present generation is whether right or left material orientated and used to have a comfortable life. While it is nice for Jeremy to ride on Bicycle and be very simple I  wonder how many of his so called supporters drive Mercs ?

What I am trying to say ?

For the people who think that the Jeremy way is not right the only weapon they have is "patience". It is only fair that Jeremy Corbyn should be given a chance to either prove or disprove that he is right.

And the only way to convince the 60% of the supporters is to prove to them that their choice for the leader is not working. To do that they need to be given time.

It is ironic that the person who nominated Jermy Corbyn , Sadiq Khan has contradicted the leaders policy in a paper that is vehemently disliked by Jeremy.

It shows the deep division that is manifesting within the Labour party. I am sure that the forthcoming Europe referendum will further split open the Labour party not only that if Cameron decides to ask for permission for air strikes in Syria that will definitely high light the bitter division within labour,

in the mean time there are lessons for the conservative party to learn as well. They need to look into ways to accommodate the need to improve the rail service and to manage the expectation of the middle class families about the cost of the energy.

Let us wait and see the acid test is as follows,

1) Air strikes in Syria
2) European referendum

The political stage is poised for further dramatic scene changes !

Sakthi Sakthithasan