It wasn't Corbyn's fault that Stronger In ran a terrible, elitist campaign that never addressed the legitimate economic concerns working-class voters in the North and Northeast had about the austerity kept in place in their region by the Tory/New Labour "consensus" AND by the EU. If they had run a campaign on the theme "Remain and Rebel"
that is, that they would stay in but fight like hell to get the EU to stop imposing low-employment, low-benefit, high inequality economics in cahoots with the British right), Remain MIGHT have won. Instead, the Remain campaign was nothing but "If you vote Leave, you're a bigot". There is nothing Corbyn could have done to overcome the fatally flawed Remain strategy of saying "everything is just fine as it is", and everyone knows it.
Basically, Corbyn is being vilified for not lying.
And it is obscene that, after all these years, Jack Straw, a man who helped remove everything Labour from the Labour Party and ended up abandoning everything he had ever believed in in his youth, would still be trying to defend the Iraq War(as I understand it, that was the OTHER half of the reason for the anti-Corbyn putsch: to make sure that, by the time Chilcot was released, the party would once again be led by an apologist for the war and that that apologist would lead a unified Labour front bench attack on Chilcot).
And all the Canary is guilty of is being supportive of a good man who is under totally undeserved attack by his own party's current MPs (most of whom only have their seats because Kinnock or Blair imposed them as candidates against the will of their own constituency parties and most of whom I sincerely believe would have joined Ramsay MacDonald in crossing the floor to serve in the Tory-controlled National Government if they'd had seats in the house in 1931), a group that cares more about keeping their own sect in control of the party then they do in getting Theresa May out of 10 Downing Street.
The PLP haven't listened to the vast majority of their own party's paid members. They've shown no respect for the opinions or ideals of that majority(and I strongly suspect would like to expel at least 250,000 of them) and never gave Jeremy a chance as leader, having briefed against him in a coordinated effort planned by Portland Communications from the moment he took over. They never offered any real compromise with Corbyn and those who back him-they never committed to making sure that internal party democracy be restored, that constituency parties be given control over who is nominated as prospective parliamentary candidates, or that the party conference be given real policy-making powers again. All they offered was to give Corbyn himself as meaningless, irrelevant position as "party president" in which, he'd have had no say in policy and would simply have been expected to try to push his supporters into unquestioningly accepting the return of Third Way policies).
The story told the truth(and it is sickening that Straw is still on a "old chum" basis with Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice, people who were among the architects of the Middle East military interventions that still, to this day, haven't stopped). Straw was glad that the Leave victory might take people's minds off of his crimes. Why would you bother defending anyone like that?
If Labour loses badly in 2020, it is solely the fault of the PLP and the Blairites. Just as in 1981, the party is in crisis because a discredited right-wing minority refuses to accept the democratic decision of the party as to who should lead it.
If(as is likely)Jeremy wins the leadership again, those people will have an obligation to accept his victory and work with him to unify the party. I doubt that they will behave like that, that they will act as small-d democrats-they believe that they are Labour and no one else is, and they believe they are entitled to treat the party as their own personal fiefdom, on policies chosen by them and whoever they prefer as leader, and with the majority of the party having no say at all.
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