The Nation’s Rachel Shabi analyzes why Labour was crushed in the last election. She also explores what this says about the future of political struggle in Britain, the United States, and the world.
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Good news for the Scott’s Labour is finished
Rachel Shabi dithered. She may be right about about Brexit – to a limited extent – but surely Labour's fence sitting was not the reason for Corbyn's defeat!. Both parties were sitting on the Brexit fence, It must have been a deep distrust of Corbyn – Labour motives – and election promises – to cause Corbyn to crash so badly.
Twenty years of propagandizing by the Murdoch press & their fellow travelers have pulled the wool over the eyes of the common citizen to the point that they believe that up is down & black is white. It's quite simple really.
It's ok to wear our Britain First badges now, and with pride, the smashing back of the Left begins in the new year, I hope many will still wear their EU regalia, to make it easier for us. Be seeing you.
The British Left doesn't have the numbers to win nationally on their own and yet see coalition with the more centrist elements of Labour as anathema. So what will the Left do? Given their current political point of view, one they insist on maintaining, keeping on keeping on will be their direction and keeping on keeping themselves distant from political power will be the result.
Bojo the Bozo and Donald the Dumbo!
With the Tories in power you will see the UK as in my words, they will be in the Brexshite hitting the fan. UK need imports ££££££££££££££££££££££££££
pink tory entitled remainer shill – still in mourning for blair
All labour needs is a leader who doesn't overtly hate the country and turn the radicalism down from an 11/10 to like a 5 or 6 or something
Are we going to pretend the lib-dems didn't split the remain vote while the leave vote united under conservatives…. peerage for farage says this is the case. This dumb centrist narrative is sad.
This was a one issue election: Brexit. Boris Johnson literally ran on this singular issue with the promise of ending the ridiculously painful and drawn out process quickly and decisively. The results of the election are in every sense a second referendum on Brexit with the people once more giving a resounding Yes to leave.
Brexit, to the British, is not about immigration or whatever other wedge issue the spin doctors might try to portray it as, it's about sovereignty. More and more the EU has been centralizing power with member nations capitulating their sovereignty to the unelected technocrats in Brussels. The British had had enough and wished to leave while there was still a chance to do so and the ruling establishment has tried to make an example of the British lest the people of any other member nation decide they also have had enough.
Corbyn, for some reason, felt it wise to run an important campaign with a wishy-washy stance on Brexit which sounded an awful lot to the British public like either a second referendum or more delays and more of the same BS. All other issues were irrelevant at that point.
Of course, it also didn't help that Corbyn had been outspoken about the rights of Palestinians and had been critical of Israel's incessant war crimes. The Zionists, especially through their influence on British media, had created the false appearance of there having been an anti-Semitism problem in the Labour party and had gone after the image of Corbyn himself challenging his role as the Labour leader.
There were other small things as well, but these two things overwhelmingly affected the results of the election.
I think the country is pretty polarised during every election. If anything the huge conservative majority suggests that Corbyn has managed to reduce the polarisation by being so useless.
The Labour middle got gutted. That what happens when you don't back up your party colleagues. They look weak
You mean the British don't want open borders and globalism either? Surprise.
Died on arrival
Corbyn was smeared continuously by the state broadcaster BBC, so that neverending unchallenged negative propaganda was a huge influence on their perception of him.
The U.K. must have forgotten the "Battle of Orgreave" on 18 June 1984 when Thatcher crushed labor and the unions! When you forget history you are doomed to repeat it. Corbyn should hang in there and see how Brexit plays out. This might be the boost labor needs.
The moment she said "Hard right" – I instantly knew she was a utter fool. Thumps down. Shame i love the Jewish people.
This marketing analysis gets pretty tired after the umteenth time hearing it. Labour, Corbyn and the progressive movement have been and are under relentless attack by an atrociously corrupt UK media. The right have had decades to sabotage democracy through a media fully owned by wealthy elites. The "conversation" is based on lies and outright misrepresentation. Any productive analysis must begin with this glaring fact. UK gave Boris Johnson a majority because Brexit was made THE issue by the media and was sold using narrowly defined and patently false premises.When Lying to the public becomes a crime, voters will make more rational decisions. That day is likely never to come.
In the meantime, we'll just have to play the game and pretend that the current media-influenced system, with its imaginary market forces, are what guides the public's decisions and not the lying media baffle gab like, "we need to take back our sovereignty" and "let's spend the money we save from Brexit on our NHS". I expect a far more critical analysis from TRN. Labour's defeat wasn't because of Jeremy Corbyn or his party's manifesto. It was the result of an extremely successful campaign by the right against change of any kind using Brexit and a long since weaponized mass media.
The conservatives broke new ground by creating the nationalize/privatize cycle, allowing resources to be rehabilitated on the public dime and sold.
Five years of tories will make Labour (the left) stronger world wide.
Wow this interview was hideous. I want the real left on the channel again thanks.
anti-semitism unite the far right and far left in a syop coalition that already exist 2000 years
The "Conservative" party "far right"?? LMAO. Typical from a Guardian columnist.
They got crushed because every day regular people are sick of leftists posing as "liberals ". Same nonsense going on in the United States and boy it is going to be yet another Trump win in 2020. The leftists in America live in a bubble echo chamber, either you comply or they crush you, smear you. The left throughout history has been this way embracing big government, totalitarianism, censorship. Just crack open a history book and research for yourself. I'm not a fan of Trump but he will crush the Democrat party in 2020 they just handed over a 2nd term.