Thread by @DanFinn95

Four years to the day since Jeremy Corbyn & his allies obliged columnists such as Jonathan Freedland to write columns like this. The ferocity of the backlash that followed—and is still following—surely owes a great deal to feelings of wounded pride.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

No guff here about May being a uniquely awful campaigner (although he did squeeze in a line about the "weakest Tory campaign in at least 40 years" towards the end—a taste of the narrative to come). Corbyn "deserves credit for this astonishing performance", said Freedland.

Freedland also acknowledged that Labour under Corbyn won a lot of ex-UKIP votes instead of forfeiting them to the Tories—a trick that seems to be eluding Keir Starmer today. Another point that was scrubbed from the media narrative as soon as possible.

There was humble piece on the menu all round, and nobody had the brass neck to deny that this was an excellent Labour performance when the facts were still fresh. It required a huge effort to bury what had happened.

bbc.com/news/uk-politi…

The Labour right may have bitten their tongues in public (apart from the ludicrous Chris Leslie), but their true feelings about the result were perfectly captured by the footage of Stephen Kinnock looking like he had heard about a family death.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

The Labour officials later paraded before the public as "whistleblowers" by the BBC also captured their exit-poll feelings for posterity. Once it had absorbed the shock, the Labour right devoted every scrap of energy to snuffing out this opportunity.

jacobinmag.com/2020/06/keir-s…