Agreed that played a part in all this. It wasn't even that Corbyn was ineffective. He was actively repellant to quite a large number of people in the UK.
Surprisingly, half of the bureaucrats and MPs in Corbyn's party preferred to see the Tories win. They didn't want to see a socialist/union driven wing of the party take power from them - the corporate/NGO wing. They spent most of their time and effort sabotaging both him and the party with a view to losing the 2019 election and grabbing back the reins of the party afterwards (which they did).
The UK media barons also preferred to see the country self destruct before seeing a socialist win as well, so they closed ranks and went on a character assassination extravaganza. Corbyn put their investments at risk with his policies. They didn't like Boris at all but they still painted him as a strong, capable leader even when he hid in a fridge. The public bought it.
When Corbyn lost the election, party expelled him to consolidate power and the media serially repeated the story you just did to try and make sure this socialism/peacenik thing never took hold and threatened their portfolios ever again.
MattPalmer1086|3 years ago
pydry|3 years ago
This conspiracy is actually pretty well documented through leaks although it didn't get much airtime: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/23/unprecedented-leak-...
The UK media barons also preferred to see the country self destruct before seeing a socialist win as well, so they closed ranks and went on a character assassination extravaganza. Corbyn put their investments at risk with his policies. They didn't like Boris at all but they still painted him as a strong, capable leader even when he hid in a fridge. The public bought it.
When Corbyn lost the election, party expelled him to consolidate power and the media serially repeated the story you just did to try and make sure this socialism/peacenik thing never took hold and threatened their portfolios ever again.
The real irony is that we were serially promised years of absolute chaos and a return to the 1970s with stagflation and a wave of strikes if we voted for this guy: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/09/corbyn-dragging-...
Now here we are. The dark future we were promised spurred by an energy crisis Boris helped make happen by pressuring Ukraine into canceling peace talks: https://uawire.org/ukrainian-media-johnson-tells-zelensky-to...