http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34460822

That's beyond satire, but even worse, it'll likely work. The public really are that thick.

And just how frightened are they of Corbyn?

No different to any other politician then.

Very true, but most aren't or never will be PM. A PM who stands there calling his rival "security-threatening, terrorist-sympathising and Britain-hating", while also using the dead of 9/11 to score some seriously nasty political points.

Certainly no politician can claim the moral high ground on this kind of thing. However the current administration are quite lucky insofar as most of the press is very sympathetic to them, so they get away with acting with little scrutiny. As a result they are telling even bigger porkies than politicians generally try to get away with.

There need to be checks and balances in society. Right now we're quite close to some of ours ceasing to function in a useful way and that's never a good thing.

I honestly think that they can not formulate a cohesive counter argument. We’ve had centre-right politics for so long, that it’s become the norm. All three major parties have occupied pretty much the same ground, agreeing over the big issues, but bickering over the minutiae of implementation. This has gone on for so long that it’s become the norm. So when someone with a completely different outlook suddenly becomes the voice of the opposition, and looks as if he’s got ideas that are outside of that small bubble, a panic set in. So this is what is resorted to, and no doubt the press will delight in that assessment of Corbyn. A few headlines will no doubt contain at least one of those accusations.

The Conservatives have a problem themselves. They have a leader who is on the descendent. He won’t be leader in a few years time (you could argue that he’s hobbled himself), and those wanting to take over are already setting out their stalls. So a good, rabble-rousing thrash at the leader of the opposition will ensure that headlines are on Cameron, and not Osbourne, May, Johnson, etc al.

Apparently David and George are good friends, so it'll be interesting to see how that goes.

So there's a sense in which Corbyn is the UK's equivalent of Donald Trump then...

Bernie Sanders perhaps.