Feel the Corbyn: UK Labour party reacts to surprise frontrunner from left

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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-33921047

In an interview for The Independent, Ms Kendall said voters should mark Andy Burnham or Yvette Cooper as their second and third preferences, and not give any votes to the frontrunner.

Mr Corbyn is due to unveil a 10-point policy plan while in Glasgow later.

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Meanwhile Mr Corbyn has promised a "new kind of politics" if he wins the contest.

His policy programme includes a commitment to "growth not austerity", nationalising the railways and energy sector, and a plan for nuclear disarmament.

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1. best of luck to him

The Labour Party has been as decimated by third-way politics as the Democratic Party. Same with the Liberal Party in Canada. The Democratic Party survives because there are no viable alternatives.

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2. Anyone who can silence BLIAR permanently is a good person

Go Corbyn!

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3. Labour has reacted extremely badly to this

Endless negativity and attacks, dragging the party into an open civil war. They've ended up making all the same mistakes Jim Murphy made in his disastrous general election campaign this year, which resulted in Labour's annihilation in Scotland.

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4. From across the pond this pretty much looks like a train wreck

But UK politics are always somewhat opaque to me.

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5. That's because it is a train wreck

If anything, I think Corbyn is doing so well mainly because the Blairite candidates to lead Labour are so poor.