People will blame the vile media, the sinister anti-semitism smear campaign, and US meddling.
All factors.
But all factors in 2017, when Jeremy Corbyn ran against an equally poor campaign.
It was #Brexit which won it.
@JoshuaYJackson Wonder how much of Labour's vote loss was even due to the literal referendum policy or the goofy Clintonoid Parliamentary games this fall
@JoshuaYJackson The only bright sides of this entire night are that the UK is out of the EU & that quite frankly, an ugly hung parliament technical government where Corbyn would be forced to play Tsipras over a remain-and-revoke referendum, unacceptable between Aug-Oct, won't occur.
@AntonJaegermm@Alex__1789 Serious question about this I also had after the EU elections.
Has anyone looked at how declining unemployment & rising living standards by this point are deflating left populist parties?
Podemos and France Insoumise especially movements of the unemployed kind of like 1930s KPD
People celebrating tonight:
Netanyahu
Blair
Richard Branson
Donald Trump
Bin Salman
Billionaires
Tax dodgers
Bankers
Racists
Homophobes
Nationalists
Climate change deniers
Oil executives
The Monarchy
Arms dealers
War criminals
@partisan_161 @IanLaveryMP Scary but true.
Create trouble up there in Scotland and along with @sinnfeinireland we might get radical change without Corbyn.
Good luck
@NatSecReporter One of the most absurd last-minute smears was that Corbyn would invite 20 terrorists into UK
Half were 60+ boomer age members of RAF & other German guerilla groups
At least one of them was literally *disabled* from hunger strike & unable to leave Germany
https://t.co/NVgSOIYVdN
So the Lib Dems who wanted to cancel Brexit are predicted to get just 13 seats & Labour who promised a 2nd ref with a Remain option, just 191. So where were all these votes in stopping Brexit? Those who urged Labour to shift its policy really need to leave the room quietly now.
Keir Starmer is one of the main architects of Labour’s catastrophe, James. What would Starmer’s flagship policy be? Rejoining the EU? That’ll help win back Blyth Valley.