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The Sunday Times' 2019 election expose by @patrickkmaguire & @Gabriel_Pogrund is well worth a read.
If anyone ever talks of election sabotage again, they should be directed to the actions of Corbyn and his inner circle in 2019.
Some personal highlights:
If anyone ever talks of election sabotage again, they should be directed to the actions of Corbyn and his inner circle in 2019.
Some personal highlights:
Here we have Ian Lavery - an Labour MP of 9 years - repeating the conspiracy that YouGov were a "Tory firm" not to be trusted.
Sort of understandable from hobbyist activists. But when you're Labour Party CHAIR and part of your job is overseeing election campaigns?! Good. Grief.
Sort of understandable from hobbyist activists. But when you're Labour Party CHAIR and part of your job is overseeing election campaigns?! Good. Grief.
Corbyn vetoed a campaign slogan because Blair had used it as a theme in the 1997 GE.
Not is this incredibly petty, it also ignores that the 2017 campaign slogan "For the Many Not the Few" was taken from Blair's rewriting of Clause IV.
Almost like the guy knew a thing or two.
Not is this incredibly petty, it also ignores that the 2017 campaign slogan "For the Many Not the Few" was taken from Blair's rewriting of Clause IV.
Almost like the guy knew a thing or two.
Tom Watson doing a grubby deal with Corbyn for a peerage. Which - as we know now - he was blocked from receiving anyway.
Let's not forget that the anti-Corbyn side also had its fair share of unprincipled twats. Watson never commanded any respect.
Let's not forget that the anti-Corbyn side also had its fair share of unprincipled twats. Watson never commanded any respect.
This vignette is a great microcosm of Corbynism.
He was unhappy about having a diesel rather than electric bus so he travelled by train much to the detriment of the campaign.
He was offered scant reassurance by an aide he'd hired who previously was convicted for electoral fraud
He was unhappy about having a diesel rather than electric bus so he travelled by train much to the detriment of the campaign.
He was offered scant reassurance by an aide he'd hired who previously was convicted for electoral fraud
Remember that episode of the first series of The Thick of It when Ollie has to plead with the ITN reporter about their use of an embarrassing clip?
Yeah, that.
Yeah, that.
They decided to bring in Steve Howell in order to fire things up.
His solution to bringing Leavers in?
Digital content.
From Grace Blakeley.
GRACE. BLAKELEY.
Jesus wept.
Really think we should've put more videos up on financialisation for Reg and Linda from Easington.
His solution to bringing Leavers in?
Digital content.
From Grace Blakeley.
GRACE. BLAKELEY.
Jesus wept.
Really think we should've put more videos up on financialisation for Reg and Linda from Easington.
I don't think @Gabriel_Pogrund has properly expressed the horror of this, but can understand he doesn't want to editorialise too much
It fell to an aristocratic communist who sold a £50million Picasso to make the argument "we're for ordinary people, the Tories are for the rich".
It fell to an aristocratic communist who sold a £50million Picasso to make the argument "we're for ordinary people, the Tories are for the rich".
They only realised they needed to fight defensively in some seats & visit the Red Wall in the campaign's death throes.
Theys were on 28% at the start of the campaign. On what level did think they wouldn't need to defend seats? Even worse than Hillary not visiting the Rust Belt.
Theys were on 28% at the start of the campaign. On what level did think they wouldn't need to defend seats? Even worse than Hillary not visiting the Rust Belt.
This sums things up.
It is *incontrovertible* the 2nd ref saved an even worse defeat. That the incompetence of Corbyn's inner circle amounted to sabotage.
Yet Lavery shamelessly blamed the 2nd ref pledge for the defeat. And before long, they'd blame others for "sabotage". ENDS.
It is *incontrovertible* the 2nd ref saved an even worse defeat. That the incompetence of Corbyn's inner circle amounted to sabotage.
Yet Lavery shamelessly blamed the 2nd ref pledge for the defeat. And before long, they'd blame others for "sabotage". ENDS.
