"Ordinary people views" are usually what the S*n or the Mail insist that they are. Even something as cast-iron and as oft-cited as Trident renewal apparently is tends to wilt a bit when people are reminded that in essence all we are doing is cutting the effective bits of our military in favour of something that we would only ever actually use when the Yanks let us and when the world is between one and three minutes from ending.
I'll admit though that what you say is what is often said out there - that Corbyn et al are extremists and espouse crazy ideas; the problem is that increasingly it seems that other crazy ideas - like selling off everything that previous generations handed on to us, wrecking the terms and conditions of employment for people, making houses and education unaffordable, entering into bad deals with dodgy governments etc - have become mainstream.
Ordinary peoples view are what get you elected they are in a majority and vote.
The mail ect views on things arnt really that important a lot of people dont come onto contact with them.
I have always voted labour , been a union member all my working life, and local rep and have spent more days on strike than most of the current labour leadership put together for my covictions, but they dont offer me any hope other than they are better than the tories.
I am not voting for them agian till they offer me something more than that.
If labour was getting a clear message out there , on job security, Europe, NHS, immagration,housing all of which it should be doing it wouldnt be in the mess it is now .
It has lost the trust of its tradisional voters and this lot are not giving people any hope that they can get it back.
