You’re very confused.
Jeremy Corbyn is the opposite of disingenuous: he’s spent a political lifetime on the edges simply because he is absolutely genuine.
You imply that journalists love him and that centre and centre-left politicians are shunned. Any glance at the politicians who are asked to appear on BBC radio and TV and any critical eye scanning the press (even the Guardian) will tell you than on balance, most people are still very much in the centre ground.
You put “neoliberals” in quotation marks but that is a completely non-critical and accurate way of grouping together — as you have done yourself— people who feel that socialism is not a viable option. If you want term other than “centrists” or “neoliberals”, you haven’t suggested one.
As you can see from the above points, I’m not here to defend Owen Jones but to question chunks of this piece. That said, you appear to have a big problem with the rise of the left and have found a target (as you mention, one who many others have also attacked) on whom to vent your frustrations.
Many others (Owen included) have made many arguments highlighting the failings of the Labour centre/moderates/whatever you’d like to be called (I don’t want to insult anyone but we do need to be able to categorise for discussions like this one). I will sum this up simply by making these few short points:
Labour moderates didn’t offer anything different to 2010 or 2015
Labour moderates still haven’t listened to regular people or understood their concerns
Labour moderates seem wounded yet most would acknowledge that the real focus of the most unfair treatment over the last two years has been Jeremy Corbyn and he has held his nerve and surprised almost everyone
So maybe look at those who you would like to see in power and question whether they are the ones you should be most critical of.
