Hi clo,
He's a fringe Marxist and sympathiser with nearly every terrorist cause in living memory (IRA, Moslem grievance etc). The UK is always wrong in Corbyn's eyes.
But he isn't the PM and I don't think he will be.
May turned out to have a bit of an electoral tin ear, like HRC. Cameron was trying to create a socially liberal, economically conservative party. In reversing Cameron, it sounds like she drove away some of the support in the cities and some of the support among the elderly in a few short weeks.
She has ended up a weak PM. The obvious solution is to find a replacement who can bridge that conservative-liberal divide, which is where most electorally successful UK parties operate from.
By the way, the British idea of conservative economics isn't quite the same as the US version. It leans rightwards, but it isn't anything Rush Limbaugh would support.
For myself, I am circumstantially conservative in an English way, and circumstantially liberal. When the bottom fell out of the economy (as in 200
, I thought government expansion was the right response while many conservatives were for austerity. But when things are going well, I prefer the government to shrink gradually relative to the market economy.
I am curious about Ruth Davidson. Perhaps she would be a viable replacement for May. She's done an incredible job in Scotland.
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