Thread by @MattChorley, All those years when I wrote that Corbyn was useless for the [...]

All those years when I wrote that Corbyn was useless for the LOLs.
No gag I invented comes close to the real life shitshow unfolding behind the scenes, revealed in new book Left Out by @patrickkmaguire and @Gabriel_Pogrund. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/aides-feared-jeremy-corbyn-was-sabotaging-his-own-campaign-in-labours-chaotic-ride-to-disaster-9n829p8hl

Aides feared Jeremy Corbyn was sabotaging his own campaign in Labour’s chaotic ride to disaster

Team Corbyn learnt that Labour would lose the 2019 general election three months before a voter had gone to the polls. On September 22, the Sunday morning of the party’s annual conference in Brighton

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/aides-feared-jeremy-corbyn-was-sabotaging-his-own-campaign-in-labours-chaotic-ride-to-disaster-9n829p8hl

A useful reminder not to believe spinners when they tell you it’s all going very well, and it is just the media or opponents who are doing the campaign down.

It was Corbyn refusing to visit flood victims, sabotaging events, sulking about not having an electric bus. Incredible

And WTAF is going on here? Corbyn’s wife Laura hijacking a campaign event demanding he make an oatcake with honey.

And why didn’t ITV use the footage?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/aides-feared-jeremy-corbyn-was-sabotaging-his-own-campaign-in-labours-chaotic-ride-to-disaster-9n829p8hl

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