On Labour and Corbynistas, all I'll say is that two months before polling day, the party was busy trying to deselect Labour MPs instead of campaigning to win against the Tories.

MPs who should have been saving their seats from the Tories were trying to save them from Labour.
Because over 5 years we went from being a broad church party (where a Labour MP could vote against the party 428 times in just 10 years) to being a party where a simple tweet criticising the Leader would lead to an onslaught of abuse and their loyalty to the party questioned.
No member is ever 100% complimentary of the party and Leader. I criticised elements of Labour's campaign in 2010 and in 2015. For some reason, when I did the same in 2017 and 2019, I became a "traitor" and a "baby-killing Tory".

This is how we treated our own members.
Instead of asking members to help with campaigning against the Tories, certain influential figures in the party were asking members to help with deselecting Labour MPs.

Imagine that - you join a party to help defeat the Tories & instead you're being asked to defeat your own MPs
For most of 2019, the Tories had been on edge. Everyone knew a General Election was imminent.

We walked into Boris' trap, voted for an early election, then, instead of equipping CLPs to start campaigns, we sent the "Deselection Express" - bc purity matters more than government.
And when the "Deselection Express" backfired spectacularly with no MP deselected, the party started to stitch up selections openly. A group of people that spent most of the last 5 years virtue signalling on nepotism were suddenly very keen on handing safe seats to their friends.
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