Quotes About Corbyn

So I'm Labour, although I couldn't vote for Corbyn - he'd have taken too much money off me!

I think that Corbyn's success, just as the success of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, is a reflection of this frustration that people have that whatever they do, in terms of voting for different parties, nothing much seems to change.

Corbyn sounds like a dreadful town, dresses like a catalogue model for the Sue Ryder shop and won't look significantly different when he's been dead for a week.

What they tend to say is: we stand against antisemitism and all types of racism. As a mantra, this was heard again and again between 2015 and 2019, and continues to be in the ongoing arguments around Corbyn at the time of writing. It sounds good. It sounds right. But to these ears, the reflex need always to follow the phrase antisemitism with "and all types of racism" is the left's All Lives Matter.

I was nervous about a Corbyn government, although I would have supported it because a lot of the policies were good. I was far more nervous of a Conservative government but here it is, we've just got to deal with it.

I would have set out very quickly the relationship with Europe.

It is doubtful that Corbyn deliberately seeks out antisemites to associate with and to support. But it seems that when he encounters them, their Jew-hatred is irrelevant as long as their other positions—on class, race, capitalism, the role of the state, and Israel/Palestine—are to his liking.

Shortly before Corbyn became head of the party in 2015, Scottish columnist Stephen Daisley, who does not think Corbyn is an antisemite, observed, "How much easier it would make things" if he were. One could then simply attribute political developments in the Labour Party to the prejudices of one man. But, he continued, "this isn't about Jeremy Corbyn; he's just a symptom and a symbol. The Left, and not just the fringes, has an antisemitism problem.

When Corbyn was elected, I found there was a lot to welcome there.

Decent, hard-working Labour MPs have been targeted by Corbyn fanatics in an attempt to purge the party of anyone who doesn't support their narrow, divisive ideology.

Jeremy Corbyn has shown no ability to provide solutions for Brexit whatsoever.

Corbyn was not elected by the parliamentary party but by people who have the luxury of sounding off without the responsibility of answering for it. Corbyn represents the idiocy of direct democracy, and the culture of resentment that takes advantage of it.

I dislike many of Mr Corbyn's opinions - his belief in egalitarianism and high taxation, his enthusiasm for comprehensive schools, his readiness to talk to terrorists, and his support for the E.U.

To fans of British Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, the Chilcot report should be read as a kind of Rorschach test - those experiments psychiatrists sometimes use to determine what their patients imagine they are seeing in the shapes of inkblots.

I do find it funny, actually, why I'm not more of a Corbyn fan. I am a classic Corbyn fan, really. Not so much on the foreign policy, but I'm leftwing, pro-immigration, pro-welfare spending, there's very little that we wouldn't agree on.

No Conservative wants a bad Brexit deal, or to do anything that increases the threat of a Corbyn Government.

Those who think that Brexit offers an opportunity to move to some low tax, almost off-shore de-regulatory haven don't seem to care about the threat posed by Corbyn.

Jeremy Corbyn's election was the most hopeful thing since the Labour Party began. He's the first Labour leader who's ever stood on the picket line along with workers.

Decent people must refuse to back Corbyn and his candidates.

If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.

Jeremy Corbin is a little too liberal for me.

I was one of the few journalists who was quite pro-Corbyn from the beginning.

Corbyn has reignited Labour.

Under Mr. Corbyn, Labour are a shambles.