Here were the factors Mark. Pay attention: you might learn something.
1. Brexit. This was the Brexit election. Labour had been dragged to a losing position by blinkered idiots like you.
2. Corbyn. His demonisation by the media and his own MPs took its toll as it would on anyone
1. Brexit. This was the Brexit election. Labour had been dragged to a losing position by blinkered idiots like you.
2. Corbyn. His demonisation by the media and his own MPs took its toll as it would on anyone
3. FPTP. There are many more Leave seats in the country than Remain seats. Hence my description of you as a 'blinkered idiot' above - because I bet you hadn't paid the slightest attention to that awful reality.
4. The Lib Dems. Their constant lies, their constant punching not right, but left; their unbelievable failure even to highlight that a vote for Johnson meant a vote for No Deal. Their fake news leaflets, their disgrace of a leader, their selling Remain down the river.
5. The election was lost the moment Johnson announced he had a deal. Given that deal isn't a deal at all, it's tempting to hold EU leaders responsible for their complicity too. But we can hardly blame them for wanting shot of us after the way the UK's behaved for years.
6. New Labour. THEY abandoned the working classes; THEY parachuted in scores and scores of disgraceful, venal, self-serving expenses cheats as MPs; their legacy is still having a dreadful impact across the country.
7. Labour's manifesto. Too ambitious by half, too much too soon... and no message discipline at all.
8. Key Labour figures bizarrely sidelined throughout the campaign, wholly unlike 2017.
8. Key Labour figures bizarrely sidelined throughout the campaign, wholly unlike 2017.
9. Andrew Neil's interview with Corbyn, combined with Johnson refusing to be interviewed - just as he dodged debates too.
10. The Chief Rabbi's disgraceful intervention.
10. The Chief Rabbi's disgraceful intervention.
11. A December 12 election meant turnout was down, with not enough young people registering to vote in a process deliberately made as complicated for them as possible... and which will now be made even more complicated, with a passport tax locking out hundreds of thousands.
12. An absolutely extraordinary lack of scrutiny of almost anything in the Tory manifesto. That's a little the fault of Labour, much more the fault of the media: the broadcast side of which broke purdah rules left, right and centre.
On here, we see threads which, for example, explain in stark detail what happens when Boris Johnson visits your hospital. None of that ever makes it into the MSM: even when people's lives are at stake.
Overall: yes, Labour's leadership and communication was lacking. But I really wonder how much longer it's going to be until people wake up and realise that said media destroys Labour leader after Labour leader... and the only one they played nice with licked their behinds.
