The only part of that times piece worth bothering with is the stuff around the idiocy of labour panicking at pre campaign polling and going full remain, which was not only a strategically incompetent move but was politically unacceptable

Effectively abandoning a constituent part of its traditional electoral coalition that had remained labour for a century to change politically fluid voters

When the latter only had a third party to turn to, which was always going to get squeezed in what is ultimately a two horse race while the former had the option of the fucking governing party

Old ground this, but campaigning around the concept of being for the many while also providing solid grounds for your opponents to paint as you as anti democratic was... unwise

2019 was entirely about labour& #39;s brexit stance, clearly demonstrated by the constituencies labour lost and kept, no amount of political gymnastics will ever convince me otherwise. Making the tool behind that the next leader was the absolute cherry.