Honestly he was a good guy, and was one of the few MPs who didn't get caught up in the expenses scandal. Yeah I think unfortunately people were easily persuaded

Honestly he was a good guy, and was one of the few MPs who didn't get caught up in the expenses scandal. Yeah I think unfortunately people were easily persuaded that this made him look incompetent (I didn't vote, would have voted SNP and my constituency comfortably elected an SNP MP anyway). Shame really, given what transpired in the eight years that followed. It wasn't the last time a left-leaning Labour leader got that treatment, Corbyn was similarly crucified in the press.