The thing that best qualifies Corbyn to be PM is the fact that he never intended nor expected to be a contender. That alone makes him unique in my lifetime.
As for going back to the 1970s, that's just the stuff of Daily Fail headlines. The 2017 Labour manifesto contained policies that are considered mainstream across most of Europe. Successive British governments - of all parties - have ignored the ever-widening gap between those with the most wealth and those struggling at the bottom. That growing inequality was a major factor in the Brexit referendum. The EU (and migrant workers) were scapegoated. That's not to say that the EU doesn't have many faults.
Under-investment in public services is a great way for UK governments to guarantee those services will no longer be fit for purpose. It ensures that the public gets thoroughly disenchanted with the public sector, and the idea of public ownership, in general. And then, having manipulated public opinion, they can sell off those services to private enterprise, ideally at a knock-down rate. Later on, when their political careers are coming to an end, former ministers and special advisers can walk into highly lucrative jobs in one of the sectors that they were supposed to have been regulating when they were in government. Cronyism, bribery and misappropriation of public funds, in full view of, and with approval from the electorate.
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The Daily Mail is no worse than the rest of the Daily papers pushing an agenda and even I can get most of the quick crossword done on the back page,lol
Like the whole EU debacle no side is exempt from blame.
Regarding the goverment's issue advice on what to do after Brexit does anybody remember the pamphlet called 'Protect And Survive' from the early 80s in case we were nuked, I think you had to dive under the table if you heard the four minute warning.
