"You're angry and dismissive of people like Iains and myself."

I sometimes agree and sometimes disagree with you, Al, and on occasion your negativity is astounding, but at least you are a responsive and challenging contributor. But I'm appalled at the above alignment with Iains you've just made. Please read his last post again, carefully, and wonder at the whining hypocrisy and sheer dissembling over who insults who around here. If you like, I'll copy his post and underline the plethora of gratuitous insults, all uncalled for, in just a few lines of one post. I doubt that you need me to do that. Earlier today he insinuated that I was posting drunk (over a post I'd made stone-cold sober), and, when I took exception, he accused me of posting with a hangover. So yes, he's well worth dismissing. Not worth getting angry about, because it's hard to get angry with someone who routinely and manifestly demonstrates mental issues. Of course, if you really wish to be tarred with the same brush that's up to you. At the moment I don't see things that way and I look forward to engaging with you in a way that I don't want to with the likes of him.

And I disagree with you about Corbyn. Considering the terrible polls pre-the 2017 election, he at least put a basket-case party back on the map. This time, the big guns had learned the lesson and were out to get him. Four-fifths of the tabloids conspired viciously to demonise him, and it worked. And, just for once, the BBC played a major part in briefing consistently against him. Not saying that he did things right. He absolutely didn't, but neither did Johnson, but HE got the hale-fellow-well-met bye. Barring Jeremy's stance on brexit, which was grown-up but which gave the tabloids gleeful open season on him, he did things the same way as he did in 2017. Anyway, that's what I think, and I've respectfully taken you on.