'Anyone but Corbyn': Jewish voters turn away from Labour

[brooklynite]

The Guardian

In the Three Bakers kosher cafe in Bury South, lunchtime customers agreed they had one thing in common with regard to the election: ABC – Anyone But Corbyn.

“You’ll get the same answer from everyone in here,” said Sara, a customer in her early 30s who has decided to vote Conservative. Indeed, none of those who spoke to the Guardian were planning to back Labour – in a seat it has held for 22 years.

Jewish voters are turning away in droves from the party, once seen as their traditional political home, owing to a combination of “extreme” left policies and poor leadership on antisemitism, which led to the recent unprecedented intervention from the chief rabbi when he effectively urged the community not to vote Labour.

“Jews have deserted the Labour party for two main reasons,” said Jonathan Boyd, executive director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR). “First, the party has lurched to the left; and second, the party has failed to understand or recognise how antisemitism manifests itself in leftist politics and as a result allowed it to fester and grow.

[H2O Man]

1. Recommended.

Rightly so. Corbyn is an unacceptable choice.

[bluedye33139]

2. I don't know what I would do if I were in the UK

Corbyn is repugnant to me.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Right now it looks like Johnson will win and Brexit will happen

But maybe one good result will be a leadership contest in Labour, resulting in Corbyn's ouster and a rebuilding of the party. Is that likely?

[Amishman]

4. I'd say so, completion of brexit will be complete humiliation

Labour has gotten badly out of sync with the people and need to come back to earth. They were given a golden opportunity here of standing up for the EU and progress, and they botched it.