never forget that untold resources were spent by the ruling class and its propaganda institutions, from conservative to liberal, including sabotage from within his own party, to destroy this man and the movement he represented

that was from when he was running for the leadership in 2015, which he won easily. the ruling class saw he was garnering a massively positive reception, so they immediately set about to engage in what chomsky called "the kind of operation you carry out in enemy territory"

corbyn, and much more importantly the movement he was but the political representation of, were perceived as the greatest domestic enemy by the entire british ruling class and foreign states like the US, the israeli, saudi and modi's regime, which joined forces to destroy it

look up shai masot and watch this documentary for just one example of how the netanyahu regime plotted to destroy it: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/investigations/2017/1/10/the-lobby-young-friends-of-israel-part-1/, and for how modi's regime did so see:

see also this thread where chomsky discusses how the ruling class engages in massive propaganda campaigns "of the kind you see carried out in enemy territory" to destroy its domestic enemies, and how this was done in the UK as I detail there https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1207079198541668353