If someone were to ask you, what qualities make a good political party leader, I'm pretty sure that faking a "ram packed train" to make a point, or saying that you'd never step down in the event of your party losing a general election wouldn't be among them.
The reasons why Jeremy Corbyn is the worst Labour leader in a long line of bad Labour leaders which - seeing as how we've had war criminal Tony Blair, unsmiling Gordon Brown, and weirdo Ed Miliband and his political tombstone - is seriously terrible and just... very, very sad.
First off, he just doesn't understand how the first rule of politics works: dress to impress. If you dress like you're about to be bumming around on the street, people assume you'll be doing that. If you dress like you're about to go on holiday, then go ahead, have fun - people will assume you're off to Barbados or Spain.
Jeremy Corbyn has never entirely dressed like he's the head of a political party. He's always tried to go with the smart-casual vibes, which means it's highly unlikely that, even if he got into power in the first place, which is itself a tall order, he'd be laughed out of office in no time.
Secondly, when the hell has this man EVER held public office? He's been a lifelong back-bench politician; even former leaders his own parliamentary party have never given him any form of responsibility, like making him a member of their actual or shadow cabinet. He's just been left to sit on the back benches, simply because he caused them too much trouble by voting against the party Whip at every possible vote.
On top of that, the one quality we're always going on about wanting to see in a politician, is honesty. If 'Train-gate' is anything to go by, Jeremy Corbyn's a first-class liar (pun absolutely intended). Any man who thinks it is smart to get caught on CCTV filming himself, on a half empty train, and pretending that it's 'ram-packed' to try and outline your policies, does not deserve to be a political leader.
Corbyn's other problem, is exactly what got him into first place in the labour leadership contest after Miliband left: his supporters. Momentum are a dangerously aggressive, and dangerously loyal band of supporters, absolutely determined to turn the leadership of the Labour party into a dictatorship.
By all reports, they have cut Corbyn off from his shadow ministers short of Diane Abbott (but then, they've got history), which means that the Labour party has essentially regressed into a protest group with no understandable or clear policies whatsoever, except for the nationalisation of just about everything known to man.
Top of this very brief list of his problems is his complete failure at communication. Granted, Ed Miliband was probably just as bad, with his speech at trying to communicate by saying, "sorry, I'm really bad at this", but Corbyn can't even manage something like that! Watching any one of his PMQs, against either Cameron or May is just cringily painful, all because of two things:
A) he reads out emails from his constituents, his groupies, his fans, whatever you want to call them, and he reads them out like they're the most boring thing imaginable. Take a hint from your fellow parliamentary colleagues, Jerry - if they ain't doin' it, then it ain't a good idea.
B) Corbyn has no concept, even after decades in Parliament, of what PMQs really means - which is to really interrogate the current government on what the hell it's doing. Corbyn seems perfectly happy to just ask the question in his hand from Joe or Jane Bloggs, and get the answer and sit down without trying to push any advantage that he might have.
To any Momentum or other Corbyn followers, I'd only put it to you like this: If you were in the middle of a war, and had to elect a leader, who would you choose, a pacifist with no experience of commanding troops, supplies, or using weaponry of any sort, like Corbyn, or someone with some experience of leading, no matter how small their role may have been, like May?
I think that Corbyn, and many other MPs could learn from this quote, by Oscar Wilde. He said:
"Experience is one thing, you can't get for nothing."
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