Surely this is the problem though - and what put me off Corbyn before anything else did. His public relations, ability to convey a message and coherently argue for his point of view on a national scale is dreadful. He's a decent campaigner and clearly his stump speech resonates with the crowds that come to see him, but in his role as the leader of a political party he's been dreadful. The Brexit campaign should be exhibits A-Z for this point - he managed to convince remain voters he was against the EU, with leave voters the opposite. At best he seemed uninterested in arguably the most important economic issue for a generation.
That then ignores issues with his past comments on certain left wing dictators, the IRA, Falklands, Trident etc, which only make him unelectable in the U.K. Then there's making McDonnell and Abbott the next two faces of the party...
It's not just a debate of pragmatism v idealism. He's also pretty crap at his job.
