A Job Well Done
Meanwhile, the best epitaph for Corbyn’s inner-party opponents comes from one of their own: Gavin Shuker, the Labour MP who helped form a new party, Change UK, at the start of 2019, with the goal of preventing a left-wing government.

Many of Shuker’s fellow MPs agreed that Corbyn had to be stopped at all costs, but refrained from joining his splinter group on tactical grounds.
Looking back on a now defunct party, and the wreckage of his own parliamentary career,

Shuker consoled himself with the thought that it had all been worth it: People might ask me in 30 years “what did you achieve in your time in politics.” I’m no fan of this govt obviously. But still, I will be able to say I helped prevent Jeremy Corbyn

from leading us through a huge national crisis. And to be honest, I’ll take that. Shuker wasn’t just speaking for himself or his #Change UK colleagues. He was unquestionably speaking for a host of influential figures who preferred a Tory govt to one led by Jeremy Corbyn:

from Tom #Watson and Margaret #Hodge, to Iain #McNichol and Emilie #Oldknow. They look at the record of Britain’s #Tory govt —

the vertiginous death toll, the normalization of prejudice, the sheer wanton cruelty — and congratulate themselves on a job well done.
This is what they wanted; this is the world they made.