The larger point is that Jamie Reed went to work as a press agent for a nuclear plant built where a nuclear disaster had been. The fire occurred before he was born(and the government of that era did significantly hush it up), so he should have grown up aware of the risks, and Labour there should have been working to promote alternatives to nuclear as an employment source.
I wasn't meaning to be careless and realize I have been. Apologies.
In any case, it's silly to act as if Jamie Reed is a heroic victim of "loony left" persecution. He's simply a Blairite loyalist whose views are no longer popular in his own party OR in the country. No injustice has been done to him.
Thanks for the further information about Keswick. If that is narrowly divided between the Tories and Labour, than its addition to the constituency was always going to mean the Labour margin in Copeland overall would be reduced or possibly vanish. It would matter little whether Labour was led by Corbyn or by a right-wing establishment type like Cooper or Chuka Umunna, and it would matter little if the Labour candidate there was a left-winger or a "moderate"
a group we should just go back to calling the Labour Right, since they aren't left-of-center on any major issues anymore).
So if Labour does lose Copeland, Corbyn is not to blame. It's just the constituency boundaries.
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