>he still lost despite facing perhaps the weakest Tory candidate in a very long time. Or, to look at it another way, he triggered a hung parliament in spite of

>he still lost despite facing perhaps the weakest Tory candidate in a very long time. Or, to look at it another way, he triggered a hung parliament in spite of: * 60% of the PLP openly and covertly sabotaging him. * The entire mainstream print and broadcast media attacking him relentlessly ("left wing" Independent and Guardian included) until the day the election was called. >Given that you just made a claim that's provably false I was talking specifically about the claim made in 2015 that Corbyn was "unelectable" and would "render the Labour party unelectable for a generation" by members of the media and Blairite members of his own party. They were arguing that the UK was going to become essentially a one party state with Labour polling similarly to the Lib Dems in all of the following elections for a generation (~25 years). What followed was the largest vote gain in history by any UK party since 1945. That is not provably false, it is provably true. >I'd be careful about tossing around accusations that those you disagree with are all brainwashed I'm not arguing that people who disagree with me are all brainwashed. I'm arguing that people who agreed with that specific idea were brainwashed. What else do you call people who buy into ideas promoted heavily in the media that are so divergent from reality?