Seeing as this is apparently the designated 'write your opinions on Corbyn' day - knew he would be a disaster from the start. It was pretty clear to a lot of people that this was going to end in a huge defeat, and it ended in a huge defeat.

Not going to celebrate or gloat because I know some decent people who believed in him because they wanted to achieve things like properly fund the health service or end homelessness.

The left can still win and achieve those things, but a big part of Corbynism was denying reality

It was there from the very start. Pretending someone who had publicly backed the IRA and refused to sing GSTQ would ever win a majority in the UK (not a point on the actual ethics of that - it was just clear it was disqualifying).

It all just became a shambolic display of mental gymnastics, were polls were either proof we were advancing, or Tory conspiracies that shouldn't believed depending on what they said.

There's no reason the left can't win, but it needs to stop denying reality, and playing smarter - look at how the Tories won working class votes and are now out applauding the NHS on the street. They're clever and do what they need to win.

On the left we need to start listening to non-political obsessives and gain a better collective understanding of what life is actually like in the UK.

Too much of groupthink is based on twitter bubbles in some bizarre arms race to out-Left each other.

No signs that we're there yet. Senior people still trying to spin that, somehow, Corbyn is leaving the party in a good place.

The Corbyn project has ended with us with fewer MPs than since WW2, and 20% behind in the polls - after 10 years of austerity. https://twitter.com/mattzarb/status/1246034115754889217

So all hope isn't lost. As some have said, Corbyn made us less afraid of our own shadow and demonstrated having a clear message is necessary.

But time for Labour to start dealing in reality and work on growing a much better collective understanding of what people actually want, and how life actually is for people - in the real world, not in your favoured leftist bubble.