Jeremy Corbyn will end up as PM claims Ken Livingstone in bizarre radio interview
KEN LIVINGSTONE has bizarrely claimed the current rail strikes will lead to Jeremy Corbyn becoming prime minister – despite him trailing badly in the polls.
Ken Livingstone: I think Corbyn will win the next election
The former Mayor of London came under fire on talkRADIO as he discussed the Southern Rail chaos which has been impacting thousands of people every day.
Mr Livingstone supported the strike action as the train drivers and conductors are “frightened about their future”.
The 71-year-old politician was then quizzed over the current Labour leader and whether Jeremy Corbyn would be popular enough to be voted in by the public.
TalkRADIO host James Whale suggested Labour currently have no one in place to take advantage of the rail crisis, where unions are having their "last stand to try to bring down the government".
Jeremy has got an alternative, massive investment, creating good high tech jobs
Mr Livingstone disagreed, arguing: “Well I think Jeremy will win the next election because nothing is going to happen that is good in our economy between now and 2020.
“Best we get is it’s just going to continue to stagnate. The worst is it actually goes back into a recession.
“Jeremy has got an alternative, massive investment, creating good high-tech jobs.”
Mr Livingstone then turned his attention to blaming former Labour leader Tony Blair for the party’s current unpopularity.
He said: “At the last general election I was doing campaigning all over the country and people would stop me and say: ‘What did the last Labour party do for me?’
“That’s the damning indictment.
“It not just Blair's role in the war in Iraq, he did nothing to strengthen the position of ordinary people.
“He didn’t repeal any of Thatcher's anti-union laws, he continued to allow the decline of our manufacturing.
“Blair is as much to blame for this as Thatcher.”
In his rant, the politician also labelled the Southern Rail strikes as a result of people coming “to the end of their tether”.
A recent Guardian/ICM poll gave Mrs May a 56-point lead over Mr Corbyn.