Running scared?

There was an interesting exchange on this morning's The Andrew Marr Show. 

Partly it's interesting for the logical twists and turns taken by the Labour-supporting paper reviewer over antisemitism, but it's also interesting for Andrew Marr's behaviour.

Given the intense pressure the programme is continually under from Corbynista critics, is it another sign that the BBC is running scared of them?

Here Andrew is talking to Faiza Shaheen, head of the left-wing think tank CLASS and a Labour Party PPC aiming to unseat Iain Duncan Smith in Chingford:

ANDREW MARR: Faiza, can I turn to the Labour Party for all of this, because Jeremy Corbyn is also on that Sunday Times front page? A lot of worry about the antisemitism stuff. We'll hear from Rabbi Sacks later on. And there's a Jewish Labour Conference taking part today. But there's quite an interesting piece in The Sunday People giving the other side to all of this. 

FAIZA SHAHEEN: Yes, and obviously it has been an awful summer and something needs to be done about antisemitism, there's no question about that, and the leadership say that themselves. This piece says essentially that some of the antisemitism conversation is a bit of a... Obviously the Jewish community has been massively hurt but it's a conversation had within a political bubble a lot of the time. And you go out into communities - and this is true of the community I live in as well- they are having a very different conversation about what is happening in terms of public spending cuts, about their jobs, about housing, about what is going to happen to their kids. You know, kids are going back to school next week. People are saying to me acadamisation has been awful for my primary school. These are the issues that people are speaking about the day-to-day rather than an antisemitism. I think people are switched off a bit because it's been hard to keep up with a bit, to be honest. So I think people are just living their everyday lives.  

ANDREW MARR: So this is really interesting and important for people like us because, again and again and again, Westminster declares that Jeremy Corbyn is in terrible trouble. He is about to be toppled. He's about to go. Then we all turn around and he has got even more supporters all around the country. It's as if there's two conversations. 

Although no one trusts the polls, the polls (completely unreliable of course! wouldn't trust them for the world!) 'actually' point to a continuing decline in public support for Mr Corbyn since the general election:

Was Andrew Marr correct to say that he keeps getting "even more supporters all around the country"?