Jeremy Corbyn did his best.

Can we just lay off Jeremy Corbyn please? He did his best. And we cannot expect any more than that. I’d give him at least 7 out of 10.

Like those who campaigned for him last summer and went on to adopt those witty Reluctantly IN….. because UKIP are awful facebook profile pictures during the referendum, we cannot expect the hard left — and let’s face it Jeremy Corbyn is one of them — to take a position on anything.

Heaven forbid that as a Trot, you ever have to mix with thick working class voters with Northern accents.*

Or indeed worse — heaven forbid if as a Trot, you have to end up canvassing for the Labour Party of which you are a reluctant member of — only because of Jeremy mind — because victories are won and politics is done, in long drawn-out CLP meetings with motions about things like Trident and Fracking.

The thing about these Trots who were “Reluctantly In” is that they now of course have the luxury of washing their hands of the #Brexit vote. They simply couldn’t give a fuck.**

Ok. I’m being unfair. They did contribute a little. Remember when they kept endlessly bringing up TTIP and how bloody awful it is? And how we had to stay in the “neoliberal EU” to reform it? Helpful.

And when I write “they”, I include Corbyn and McDonnell in that of course. While Cameron and Sturgeon are making rather smart moves to potentially bring the whole thing down, Corbyn shared some thoughts yesterday in what felt somewhat like a victory speech (in as much as Corbyn can be enthused about anything…)

Whatever you might say about this referendum — it was one of those rare moments in British politics where we had the opportunity to play a part in a decision that had a profound, deep and potentially cataclysmic impact.

But the hard left were nowhere to be seen. What a surprise.

These people often start their careers in student politics. It’s wonderful practice — you make platitudes and promises and call out the Blairite scum that is the leadership. Leadership is of course an interchangeable term for NOLS/NUS/Blairites/The Tories.

You never win elections of course — you stand on platforms of smashing things — like Tories and careerists like Wes Streeting (they called him Wes Street-rat back in the day).

But the left stands anyway — because every election needs a “principled” candidate, which means that candidates like Corbyn who let’s face it, were pretty low down the list — end up reluctantly throwing their hat in, taking one for the team, willing to endure a few months of dull debates with other candidates who answer difficult questions and attempt to offer answers — while you get to quote Marx and Engels endlessly.

They make what they call “transitional” demands. The revolution is a long drawn-out process that cannot happen overnight and demands are usually things that are impossible to achieve, which is all rather convenient. (Reminds me of the pro-Brexit Tory right-wing.)

As some have said, the vote wasn’t lost because of mistakes on the part of Corbyn’s diary manager. It was lost because….. well who knows but I’m not sure Boris and Gove expected a victory bequeathed by working class people with Northern accents who turned out to vote for once.

Let me summarise. Jeremy cannot be held responsible for this mess. As Jeremy’s loyalists have been reminding us, party members followed Jeremy’s line in this election — and I haven’t exactly done the maths but I’m pretty sure that’s good enough for the next election.

But of course it’s not only our party members that will secure us victory. When we next go to the polls, I believe that those thick working class people with Northern accents will turn out once more. And they’ll turn out for Jeremy Corbyn, for the Messiah, for JC — he is the chosen one after all.

So stop asking Jeremy to apologise. Stop asking him to shoulder some responsibility, to show some humility.

He won’t. Because as a member of the hard left, he simply doesn’t know how.

*#Brexit is thick people’s fault of course.

**A brief side note — I’ve always considered those who voted for Jez, a separate group from those who were part of that core team pretending they were behind Jez when they were in fact part of McDonnell’s five year plan. The former being genuinely enthused with a candidate who seemed different from the rest, the latter being militant types who I could liken to those of the 1980s but in fact in the 1980s, militant weren’t lobbying their CLPs to donate money to rival political parties like TUSC. (Which is actually happening).