Crazy Policies

There are "left wing" policies that probably aren't popular. There are left wing policies that perhaps could be popular if there were enough people championing them and making the case for them, but that's trickier. And then there are left wing policies that are genuinely popular, which the media treats as totally craaaaaaazyy commie socialism despite that fact.

Everyone sensible agrees it would be madness to make Corbyn leader, because no one could ever win an election with his policies. For example, he argues the railways should be renationalised, and you’ll never win votes with ideas like that. The last Labour leader to fight an election promising to renationalise the railways was Blair in 1997, promising “there will be a publicly owned and publicly accountable railway system under a Labour government”.