Tuesday 14 July 2020

Still Spooked

On any given day, count how many attacks on Jeremy Corbyn there will still be. An elderly Opposition backbencher is living rent free in the heads of the British Establishment. So to speak, he has spooked them.

Even in 2019, a party led by him still took 10,269,051 votes. That was 716,615 more than Labour had managed when it had won the 2005 General Election. It was only 434,703 fewer than the Conservatives had scored in 2010, when David Cameron had become Prime Minister.

In 2017, Corbyn, differing only on Brexit from his 2019 self, had led his party to 12,878,460 votes. That was 40 per cent of the total, and only 758,224 behind the Conservatives.

And say it again that even in 2019, Corbyn secured for his party the votes of 10 million people, the population of a fair sized European country. Those 10 million people have not all died or emigrated in the last seven months.

Half of our lords and masters are terrified because they do not recognise this Britain. The other half are terrified because they do.

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