A dose of reality
You think last night wasn’t bad? Let me prick your little bubble for you.
In Scotland, your wonderful anti-austerity heartland, the Labour Party ran to the left of the SNP (think of New Labour plus grievance, sans competence. That’s your SNP. Stop drinking the Kool aid. Stop deluding yourself they are a left wing force. Their leader – the alleged left wing firebrand – had a choice to join Kinnock’s Labour in the mid 1980s, and instead joined a centre right nationalist party. Given the choice between socialism and nationalism, she chose the latter. Nothing they have done since implies the party has changed much in anything bar branding). The result? The Tories increased their seats massively.
In Wales, which has elected a solid, mildly competent Labour government consistently to the left of Westminster Labour since devolution, Labour lost overall control and UKIP gained 8 Assembly members.
In England? In 2011, Labour gained 850+ seats in the council elections. 850. Led by the bacon sandwich munching King of awkwardness, they gained 850+.
Against a party currently riven with civil war over Europe, who lost a cabinet minister over a shambolic budget, led by a lame duck Prime Minister under fire over his offshore tax interests, they lost seats.
In London, an energetic social democrat firmly distanced from the party leadership defeated a multi-millionaire block of wood whose sole tactic was to shout “scary Muslim is coming to steal your jewellery! Terrorists!”. In the most multicultural part of the country. Excellent campaign strategy, I think you’ll find.
Said scary Muslim was no doubt also insulated from a lot of this (and, indeed, able to avoid any serious questions related to it above and beyond the dog whistle stuff) due to his affability, professionalism and slickness, due to his strong stance on issues like, well, antisemitism (those things your chosen one lacks entirely, remember? No doubt part of the reason the mayoral candidate distanced himself from your messiah), and also due to the fact there was an actual, 100%, no excuses terrorist apologist Jew baiter in the race who is on course to poll between 1 and -3%.
If you, Comrade Corbynista, can claim comfort from that selection of facts I envy you, and furthermore, I enquire on the colour of the sky on your planet.
