Watching this video, in which Corbyn details in his own words the smears directed against him, and why they happened, I can’t help but think of the Welsh Labour politicians that couldn’t hide their glee when people were repeating these smears back to them on the doorstep https://twitter.com/doubledownnews/status/1260862539841384448

Many within Welsh Labour could see this happening and did very little to counter it: https://medium.com/@DrDanEvans/reflections-from-the-doorstep-e4337513d909

And now today their golden boy is getting rinsed by that very same right wing press. So they’ve junked any pretence towards a socialist politics for no gain at all, yet the Welsh Left are supposedly the naive idealists, and Welsh Labour are the master strategists...

And what has Starmer given them in return this morning, writing in the Western Mail? A load of generic waffle from someone that clearly has very little knowledge of or interest in the Welsh Government, which will be utterly meaningless to people in Wales https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/news-opinion/its-duty-demonstrate-labour-force-18246359

One example among many of how this worked during the election: https://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/planet-online/237/gareth-leaman