Single Aspect Blog

I keep an eye on various commentators to the Guardian. Presstheredbutton is one of them. I don’t agree with everything they write but when I do I think it’s worth repeating here:-

As the results of the local elections and mayoral elections were being announced, Polly’s colleague, Anne Perkins, identified the Bristol mayoral election as the real test of Corbyn’s leadership. Marvin Rees, the Labour candidate, won handsomely. Perkins’ response? Silence.
When the mass resignation of Labour’s front bench happened, the aim was to cripple Corbyn’s shadow cabinet.

The need for a functioning opposition was sacrificed by the plotters, their own disgruntlement that the party membership had rejected “New Labour” overriding the necessity to oppose the Tory government. A direct consequence of their actions was the chaos produced through a hastily assembled shadow front bench, with newly installed shadow ministers struggling to get on top of their briefs.

In the chaos and confusion, Richard Burgon made an error, but the cause of this error is the actions of the PLP refusniks. They sacrificed the public on the altar of their discontent. They desire failure from Corbyn’s team, and care nothing for the effects it will have on the public.
And Ms Toynbee champions them.

Divided parties lose elections, and right on cue, as the Tories descended into their own acrimony, rather than press home the advantage by uniting behind Corbyn, the serial rebels in Labour fractured the party from top to bottom. To them, the enemy isn’t the Tory party and its assault on the most vulnerable in society, but the democratically elected leader. Their hatred for him and his policies far outweigh their opposition to the Tories, understandable because they have so much more in common with the Tories.

And Polly Toynbee champions them.

From the start, the Guardian has attacked Corbyn, willing him to fail, dredging up any item to prove his failure. The largest share of the vote in the local elections, fighting seats Miliband gained due to the LibDem collapse? Failure. All by-elections won? Failure. All mayoral elections won? Failure.

Kath Viner has written a long article on the lies, distortions and sensationalisms that are routinely served up as facts by journalists for clickbait. The disinformation of political journalists should be included in that lament. Women only carriages?

So now we have Angela Eagle being presented as a knight on a white charger, saving Labour from… what? A phantom failure spun by journalists in a sordid attempt to topple the democratically elected leader of the Labour Party, walking in lockstep with disaffected politicians peddling the rejected policies that have lost two general elections.
A very British coup…

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