Great rant on Corbyn

A UK Labour activist wrote on election day:

Fuck off, Jeremy Corbyn, you hopeless old tatterdemalion, and take your useless fucking coterie with you.

You’ve wasted years, lost everything you’ve tried, and are the single biggest cause of the Tory win.

Should’ve gone 3 years ago. Go now. People will say “I bet you want Blair”. No. Blair might be the opposite of Corbyn, but he’s not the only alternative to him. The mistake Labour made is thinking a bad person being good at politics means everybody good at politics is bad. 

People will say “the media is biased”. Yes. But that’s the environment Labour leaders always operate in. Complaining about it is like trawler captains complaining the sea is wet. Yep. Learn to thrive in those conditions, or get off the boat. 

People will say “they treated him worse than any previous leader”. They did. Cos he was shit at working the press, had a history of opinions that could be easily made to look awful, was inept on antisemitism, shifty on Brexit and cantankerous on TV. 

People will say “no way is he racist”. Perhaps. But if people accused me of antisemitism, I’d be able to clearly defend myself, demonstrate my credentials, and put in place a strategy to stop accusations. He couldn’t. If he’s not antisemitic, he’s inept. 

People will say “voters love him in person”. I’m sure. But we’ve been in the age of broadcasting for 80 years. What the hell use is being warm and cuddly to 600 people in a field, when you come over badly to 60 million people on TV? 

People will say “he grew the party”. He did. But he lost elections.

People will say “members love him”. They do. But members aren’t all voters.

People will say “his manifesto is great”. Maybe. But the more radical your are, the better salesman you need to be. And he’s crap. 

A good summary.

People will say “we had to let him try”. We did let him try. For years. He lost the referendum in 2016. He lost the election in 2017. He lost the EU elections in 2019. He’s lost again. The only thing he’s won was “most unpopular Leader of Opposition in history”. 

And that takes some doing.