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ByRobert Philpot, Robert Philpot

Opinion

He's not just a political disaster - Corbyn is a moral catastrophe too

September 15, 2016 11:51
Jeremy Corbyn
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On November 10, 1980 the Labour Party elected Michael Foot as its leader.

Mr Foot was a thoroughly decent man: a great orator, writer and patriot who was equally beloved by those in his party who agreed with him and those who did not.

He was not, however, a potential Prime Minister and it took the British public little time to come to that conclusion. In June 1983, Margaret Thatcher was re-elected by a landside.

One year after Jeremy Corbyn was elected its leader, the electoral omens for Labour are worse than those which marked Michael Foot's first anniversary in the job.