Thread by @RLewisReports

Honestly, while I wanted to believe it wouldn't happen, the Conservative landslide makes total sense when you look at the big issues Labour got wrong in the crunch period of their campaign. You don't need to be a political genius to understand why this happened.

First up, the anti-Semitism within Labour was outrageously never dealt with. You had Labour councillors tweeting conspiracy theories and claims that Jewish people were involved in Satanic rites. Horrifying stuff you'd expect from the far right.

You have a leak that proves conclusively that not only are the Labour party not taking action, they can be barely bothered to investigate the compaints about this behaviour in the first place. Only when it's public do they act.

timesofisrael.com/massive-leak-d…

Then in his interview with Andrew Neil Jeremy Corbyn can't answer why Labour members who engaged in anti-Semitic behaviour are still in the party and for a flat ten minutes REFUSES to apologize to the Jewish community. Watch it in disbelief for yourself. facebook.com/watch/?v=10222…

The upshot of this outrageous stance is that it drove the British Jewish community away from Labour in droves, with prominent figures saying it'd be safer to leave the country if Labour were elected.

theguardian.com/politics/2019/…

The Labour stance on Brexit almost single-handedly drove away voters in the North that were overwhelmingly in favour to leave the EU. When you tell the economically and politically disenfranchised we "need to do the vote again because you're too uneducated to choose" they revolt.

No one in any of my old stomping grounds, all Labour heartlands, want a second referendum. They want what they voted for to get fucking done. And if you think I'm a Brexiteer, you'd be wrong. I just didn't piss my pants over a vote not going my way.

bbc.com/news/uk-politi…

Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary and permanent embarrassment to the Labour party, went on the UK's biggest political talkshow and said all Brexit voters were racist. This is not how you win hearts and minds.

huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/diane-ab…

This Summer Labour MPs urged Corbyn not to listen to voices like Abbott and not campaign on the grounds of a second referendum with a "genuine chance to remain." They knew what it would do. Sadly the Corbynistas were running the party into the ground.

bbc.com/news/uk-politi…

Then, having essentially distanced themselves as the party of the working class, they then go on to dismantle their relationship with the British middle class with policies that are out of time, proving Corbyn to be an anachronism.

Nationalisation of the railways? Most seem to agree this would be disastrous for commuters, especially in the North where the infrastructure still hasn't been built. Only private investment can help play catch-up. The public already spend 3bn a year for the shit we have.

Promising 450 million in spending to provide free dental care fell flat. It didn't help the facts and figures were based on shonky data.

fullfact.org/election-2019/…

When you broke down all of Corbyn's pledges and promises he was talking about spending in excess of 80 billion up front to fix systems crippled by austerity. Sounds great. Shame we don't have that kind of money. But don't worry, he has a plan to get it. Watch out middle class.

His proposed increase to taxes were going to kick in on the 80,000 pound threshold, hardly the fucking super rich, and this is not very appealing to people who pulled themselves into another income bracket under New Labour's propserity.

Oh, and the classic socialist favourite of a "super tax" for the rich. Guess what, that is some pie in the sky. The rich just leave the country and you never see a single penny. It would have been an economic disaster.

theguardian.com/news/2019/nov/…

All told the Corbyn era of Labour has been a mess, a throwback pipedream to a country no longer the same as it was when we were fighting Thatcher. They couldn't beat a man who was LITERALLY a comedic figure just a few years ago.

So now four more years of austerity, four more years of cuts to essential services, four more years of tax breaks and economic stimulation for the rich and four more years of smug Tory rule. But fuck blaming them. That's just their nature. The buck stops with Corbyn's Labour.

Oh yeah and just one last thing. I saw the terrifying prospect of the NHS being sold off to private companies under Boris Johnson being leveraged by Corbyn this election campaign. I agree. Fuck that. Sadly it was Labour that started that game. We remember

theguardian.com/society/2006/f…