Such indecisiveness was not a problem for Corbyn, whose principal distinction in more than three decades in parliament has been voting against his own party more than 500 times on the grounds that its proposals were not socialist enough. In fact, Corbyn made it onto the ballot only because a few MPs wanted to show that the Labour Party welcomed debate.
对柯比来说优柔寡断不是问题，他30多年议会生涯最主要的与众不同之处就在于因为提案不够社会化而投票反对自己的政党。事实上，柯比进入表决阶段仅仅因为少数几位议员想向外界表明工党对争论持欢迎态度。但他对老式社会主义的狂热宣传却迅速流行——令成千上万新党员对已失去众多追随者的政党趋之若鹜。