Jeremy Corbyn's intellectual credentials... or lack of.

So? Why should I care? Plato was intelligent. He also thought women had less teeth than men.

I disagree. You have to be among the cleverest people in the country to be admitted to Oxford, let alone to graduate there with a first.

On the other hand, only people with very low academic qualifications, which essentially are indicative of your intellectual ability, are going to apply for the lowest ranked university in the country.

Absolutely, you're Corbs I'm McDonnell let's tag team these Tory bastards

Aristotle, not Plato.

So? Why should I care? Plato was intelligent. He also thought women had less teeth than men.

My dad graduated with a first from Oxford, but I'd still sooner put my mum in charge of the country with her teaching training diploma.

Tories getting real desperate now trying to find any way to discredit Corbyn. First he was a danger to my family, then he was a terrorist sympathiser and now he's an uneducated fool. Shows you how scared they are of him.

But he is all of those things

I disagree with all three of these assertions.

You do not have to be exceptionally academically bright to be accepted to Oxford, nor to graduate with a first. Hard work can attain both of these things in the absence of oustanding mental abilities, and is even easier with the private tuition which many of the people involved have access to.

It is also wrong to say that academic qualifications are necessarily indicative of one's intellect. The former is infinitely more influenced by socioeconomic circumstances than intelligence. Roy Hattersley went to Hull and is now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Churchill didn't go to university at all and won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The list is endless.

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Proof that Tory spin and media bias does work.

Don't be silly I don't even consider myself Tory anymore.

Doesn't mean you're not susceptible to the spin or the bias in the media, even the Beeb.

In fact that only proves my point further if you don't identify as a Tory anymore.

I wouldn't go as far as to say I'm corbs.

How about you're corbs and I'm Watson. #dreamteam

I have not made those decisions based on media, I have made them based on analysis of Hansard, PMQs, other MPs views, grass-roots discussion and general ideology, I do not need the media to tell me Corbyn is a moron.

They won't know what's hit them when the Bromwich Bruiser goes berserk mode

Any you miss I'll sweep up with a quick side eye

But he is all of those things

So's Cameron

Cuts tax credits for "hard working families"
Sucks up to the Saudis
The education we are discussing

It's just that the Mail doesn't produce splashes on the subject

And if you used to be a Tory then it's clear what your ideology points towards.