The Conservatives' "lurch to the centre" has been a lurch to the right, accompanied by them finishing every sentence with "because we're the party of the middle ground/working person/mainstream." It's bollocks.
"Refugees threaten the cohesion of British society. Look how mainstream we are! We're making historic cuts to the welfare state. How moderate!"
On that issue they've lurched right (*), but on others such as welfare and tax breaks they have effectively stolen former labour policies to appeal to more of the electorate and lurch centre
*in your own quote you acknowledge the reason for that though, the main stream public want more control over immigration, which isn't necessarily a right wing view, sure a lot of people have taken a right wing view, media outlets too. There is discussions to be had over the handling of immigration, which hasn't been handled well.
Council's have placed refugees in specific areas creating gheto's and ill feeling amongst those in them and those around them over the situation, they've encouraged isolation and not integration. Refugees should be taken but not laced specifically in isolated areas, they should be evenly placed so as to integrate into areas and allow the existing populace to integrate with them.
Equally the idealistic lack of border controls has led to criticisms and situations including that of Paris. Immigration control does not and should not see an end to free movement of EU citizens and/or accepting refugees, it is only recording, best placing and policing the border
Though i will certainly concede the Conservative policies are right wing, the unfortunate issue there is until recently a lot of the other parties have denied any issues at all, which has indirectly fed into the media portrayal and allowed right wing views to foster.
right now the UK is utterly devoid of a centrally aligned party, as such it is polarising the political nature of the country, effectively forcing the populace to choose a side, with no middle ground - which on big issues like Syria is playing into the hands of the conservatives who are undeniably the masters of spin and popularist policies.
further increasing the political gulf by lurching labour further left is not aiding us, its aiding conservatives, UKIP and other right wing parties across europe
That's what it is. Which is why he doesn't want to send men to risk death for no reason.
Favouring the armed forces means that you care about them, not that you're willing to throw them into a meat grinder for no reason or gain.
That might be so, but he is not articulating that, and his utter refusal to challenge the press who twist statement to be anti armed forces play into opposition hands.
Corbyn might have the right lofty ideals, idealistically speaking, but realistically he should not be leader, a deputy at best
