politics

He's not, but on foreign policy he's not far off — which is why they burned everything to the ground just to get rid of him. The imperialist line is the one you simply cannot cross in the UK political system.

(Edit - to add more) His biggest weakness is that he comes out of the Bennite tradition i.e. he sees suffrage as the great victory of the labour movement in the UK, and social gains having flowed from workers having the VOTE. However, one does wonder how his position might have evolved. Many of his followers (hello) started off as Bennites and were pushed way to the left of that after witnessing what happened during his tenure.