Corbyn isn't seen as "incompetent" and hasn't BEEN incompetent. He has handled all the legitimate tests of his leadership well. It's been repeatedly proven that Corbyn's supporters are not a band of antisemites and that Labour, therefore, had no major issue with antisemitism-it exists in tiny numbers, as in all parties, but it goes without saying that the prohibitive majority of antisemites are Tory/UKIP voters and activists and that none of the criticism Corbyn and his supporters have made of the Israeli government is antisemitic. And Corbyn's interim government would hold the second referendum-a referendum that will never be approved by the House while the Tories are still in power, as every vote in the House thus far has proved-so he has done all he can on the EU issue-you've been told over and over again why Labour cannot, under any possible leader, go all out Remain.
All of Corbyn's policy ideas are popular.
It's been proved he never supported any of the groups he was accused of supporting.
And he was the ONLY party leader to actually spend time talking to the elderly veterans at the Cenotaph, so it didn't matter that he didn't dress in the official garb of the politicians who still think war is moral.
He's a good speaker, and is the first honest, decent human being to lead a political party in the UK since...possibly ever.
The only reason the man has lost popularity is that the right wing of his party, the BBC, the "establishment" press and dupes of capitalism and militarism like yourself have spent four years slandering the man.
And here is why I say Labour cannot win the next election with a "moderate"(i.e., a Tory, since there are no major differences on the issues between Boris Johnson and Iraq War apologists like Tom Watson and Yvette Cooper), is that, since such a figure could ONLY win the leadership if the PLP barred all left-wing candidates from the ballot-the Labour base WANTS the party to be anti-austerity, anti-corporate and antiwar-and therefore, no candidate elected on a leadership ballot where only "moderates" were allowed. No moderate could ever connect with the wishes and values of the majority of the party. No one who doesn't connect with those values can be credible AS the leader of the party.
Since a "moderate"(Tory)can only be elected leader in a 2010-style rigged ballot, every young voter who was drawn to the party by Corbyn would instantly go away-probably to the Greens-and since other voters who hadn't voted Labour in the past would suddenly start supporting the party if it had another leader who was an anti-Left warmonger, it would therefore be mathematically impossible for any leader the PLP would approve of to beat the Tories at an election.
What the PLP were SUPPOSED to do after the 2016 leadership vote was to finally, FINALLY, do what they always demanded the Left do under leaders like Wilson and Blair-to demonstrate party loyalty when the party, by legitimate, democratic means, doesn't do what they want.
Can you at least admit the PLP had no valid reason to refuse to do that?
That nothing is better, and that there's no chance for anything TO be better, as a result of the PLP spending four years sabotaging and pissing on Corbyn and the majority of the party whose principles he represents?
And why should he HAVE to fight for a second referendum while the Tories are still in power when it can't happen? Why is the damn second referendum more important than ending this nightmare of a government?
Putting the second referendum above all else-especially since the polls show that a second referendum would not be a certain victory for the Remain side-the most recent poll had it 40% Remain, 38% Leave, the rest undecided, which means Farage has an excellent chance of getting a second Leave victory-thus making no-deal Brexit unavoidable, since it would be impossible for the Remain forces to keep fighting for Remain if Leave won again.
Since a Remain victory is far from a certainty, why put a second referendum WITHOUT a change of government ahead of all other concerns?
Your insistence that trying to get a second referendum without a change of government strongly suggests, in fact, that you don't WANT the Tories removed from power at all.
Unfortunately, Tom Watson, the Tory YOU would prefer to see leading the party, clearly agrees with you-which is why, given all else that he has done, Watson has clearly earned de-selection in his constituency-his constituency party hates everything he has done for the last four years-and probably expulsion as well.
Get rid of him and Hodge, get the rest of the PLP to admit that Corbyn and his supporters never deserved the antisemitism slur, and Labour's poll ratings would start to rise again almost instantly.
If you've not noticed, even with every slander and lie spread about the man and the majority of the party who support the policies he advocates, Labour has been in the lead in at least three polls in the last month.
That fact, by itself, should have caused those members of the PLP who actually want the party to win the next election to stop undermining their leader. The reason it hasn't is that the PLP doesn't want to win the election and cares only about re-establishing "centrist"(i.e., all-but-Tory)control of the party. The Labour Party is the PLP's Vietnamese villages-they are willing to destroy it to "save it"-and by "save it", they mean "make it theirs and no one else's again".
Never mind that Labour will never again win an election with anybody that crowd of arrogant backstabbers would approve of.