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Eh, they did quite well in 2017 - in fact, the best performance for the Labour party since Blair was under Corbyn[0]. [0]: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk

• kspacewalk2 4y ago
  And then they lost 60 seats under Corbyn in 2019. Winning 202, the lowest number of seats since 1935.
  • WaxProlix 4y ago
    That was the result of the aforementioned internal torpedoing of Corbyn though, right? Cutting off the nose to spite the face or something.
    • pasabagi 4y ago
      I think that's a part of it, but I think a bigger deal part that, when the media and political establishment saw he was electable, they also saw him as a real threat, and so they made a much more concerted effort to damage him before the next election. That's why you got stuff like his face getting greenscreened onto a clip of voldemort on the BBC. One thing that people underestimate is just how far to the right of the general population the media and political class is. They tend to be private school dominated, overwhelmingly drawn from southern england, and personally wealthy.