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It's in some ways a persuasive & interesting article. How to explain what's going on? Quasi-military management consultancy how-to with a pinch of fresh russophobia? Or follow-the-money, follow-the-networks to the neoliberal think-tanks where money makes thought (& vice versa)? https://twitter.com/BettGunther/status/1291248651797434368
A bit of old-fashioned sleuthing does find the connections. As @doctor_oxford says of this thread by @JolyonMaugham, "this thread beggars belief." Not only belief. It beggars us, & their friends in high places will bugger us up: https://mobile.twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1291244082145177600
Our tragedy is that this kind of sleuthing should have exposed from the very beginning a campaign of disparate forces to disrupt, disable & damage #JeremyCorbyn. Like him or loathe him, he (with the wide support that he had) was the one chance reason had: https://mobile.twitter.com/PeriHankey/status/1291101393584041985
It cannot be said that nobody knew. July 2016, @leninology: "The putschists’ plan...was to orchestrate such media saturation of criticism & condemnation...to create such havoc within the Labour Party, that [ #JeremyCorbyn] would feel compelled to resign." https://www.telesurenglish.net/opinion/Anatomy-of-a-Failed-Coup-in-the-UK-Labour-Party-20160707-0009.html
10 Jun 2017, @skwawkbox: "...in some cases even hoping for a poor result ... at the instigation of senior HQ figures & right-wing NEC members – almost no resources [were given to] the fight to win Tory-held marginals or even to defend Labour-held ones" https://skwawkbox.org/2017/06/10/excl-labour-hq-defunded-marginals-corbyn-achieved-this-despite-them-ge17/
7 Jul 2017, @skwawkbox: HQ staff & Blairite MPs so hoped & believed a failure in #GE2017 would remove #JeremyCorbyn that during that election night they disabled his team's HQ access & email & were left looking foolish the following day: https://skwawkbox.org/2017/07/14/excl-lab-hq-did-deactivate-jc-team-passes-on-election-night-and-more/
14 Jul 2018, @skwawkbox: "Labour staffers actually rigged Facebook ads to try to fool the leadership into thinking campaign plans were being carried out when they were not...actively working against the [ #JeremyCorbyn's] team’s plans" during #GE2017: https://skwawkbox.org/2018/07/14/told-you-so-labour-right-tried-to-sabotage-ge2017-its-their-fault-were-suffering-tory-govt/
We had that & much more. But 'well-meaning' people were so locked into their intellectual snobbery, their scorn & biting faint praise for #JeremyCorbyn, their shame that he'd been right when they had been wrong, their distrust of ordinary people, that they gave us #BorisJohnson.
