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“Labour was disastrously, catastrophically bad, an agony to behold. A coterie of Corbynites cared more about gripping power within the party than saving the country by winning the election.”

👏👏👏⁦@pollytoynbee⁩ , dissecting scalpel at the ready

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“ The national executive committee, a slate of nodding Corbynite place-persons, disgraced the party with its sectarian decisions.
Once it was plain in every poll & focus group that Corbynistas was electoral arsenic, they should have propelled him out,
...but electoral victory was secondary”

When the result came in he should have gone before dawn not delay. And his successors should clear out the coterie of Milne and Murphy, McCluskey and Murray that have led the party to this terrible state of affairs.
“The campaign was chaotic, all front bench talent banished for fear of outshining the leader. Toe curlingly bad performers and insignificants were punted as loyalists, while serious heavyweights like Starmer and Thornberry might as well have been shut in Johnson’s freezer.”
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