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When, two Times journalists started promoting their forthcoming book on Twitter by suggesting it would expose the reality of factionalism in Corbyn& #39;s Labour, my first thought was that they were trying to exploit Left Twitter to drum up pre-sales...
Then I began to wonder whether, just maybe, these journalists might actually do what journalists are supposed to do - what virtually none of their colleagues had done for 5 years - and actually interrogate discrepancies between the dominant story and the overwhelming evidence...
Sadly, today& #39;s extract in the Sunday Times weighs in favour of my initial scepticism. The journalists paint a picture of Labour& #39;s GE19 campaign as riddled with internal conflict, portraying Corbyn as at once a meddling control freak and a useless bystander in his own campaign...
I spent some time on the Labour campaign bus for an independent film project and nothing of what& #39;s been published in the Sunday Times has the slightest whiff of the reality I saw. There was no suggestion of any tensions between Jeremy and his aides...
no sense of the campaign team being in any way downhearted or disunited, no hint of Jeremy& #39;s wife upsetting aides, and Jeremy seemed perfectly comfortable travelling on the bus...
Contrary to the authors& #39; trumped up claims, what this extract seems to reveal is not any kind of sensational expose, but rather an ever more desperate effort to deligitimise the Corbyn project; an effort which began in 2015 and shows no signs of abating...
and it speaks volumes about just how vital, hopeful and irreversible that project is.
