Yes, that’s right, I’m the reason why the country is in such a shit state at the moment. It’s all my fault. Although in my defence I am just a thick patsy, controlled entirely by the MSM/neolib big business (same thing), because as you argue so persuasively, I’m incapable of any independent thought. That was of course until I read your enlightening post. I must say, it’s all so obvious now.
Having seen the error of my ways, it’s only right that I should say that Jeremy Corbyn was in fact massively popular and a brilliant leader of the Labour Party. It wasn’t his fault that people didn’t vote for him in 2019, and that he led Labour to a landslide defeat in a election they really should have won at a canter. It’s all the fault of the MSM, casting their spell over thick idiots like me.
People really liked him, as you said, and he was particularly impressive during the Brexit campaign, laying out a clear argument for remaining in the EU and always being front and centre of the debate. He never once shirked his responsibilities. You certainly can’t blame him for millions of Labour supporters voting to leave, or failing to hold a piss poor PM like Theresa May to account when she moved away from the single market and peddled her Brexit fantasies.
In complete contrast to Liz Truss, he was also very good at promoting Labour’s most talented people to the front bench, and for not alienating MPs who didn’t vote for him in his leadership campaign. You can see this by him giving chancers like Yvette Cooper short shrift, and promoting the real talent like Diane Abbott, whose all-round competence and quick mental arithmetic- a la Manuel Akanji - was a major vote winner.
I suspect this even-handedness was why he was so popular across the centre ground of the Labour Party, and why people like Jonathan Ashworth spoke so highly of him ahead of the last election. Frankly, any Labour MPs who didn’t like him were just closet Tories, although it was always heartening to see Corbyn standing up for people like Margaret Hodge and Luciana Berger when they were on the wrong end of some mild, good natured banter. I can’t for one second see why people in Starmer’s office now call the Party’s remaining Corbyn supporters ‘twats in T-shirts’, or indeed why they were so happy when so few of them turned up to this year’s conference.
Overall, given his glorious record, and the fantastic opposition he presented to the Conservative governments of his day, I can only apologise for not recognising the unrivalled achievements of our dear leader.
