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An underrated aspect of Corbyn’s Labour’s issues was the attention and energy sapping nature of constantly having to fight running battles with your own party
A common criticism of Corbyn and his team was having a ‘bunker mentality’, which is true but elides the question ‘and how did that come about?’
Put simply, communication and organisational issues are not separate from only having a small number of people you can trust to give you reliable information, and having to verify everything else before being able to take action on it
If an MP comes howling about how they need more resources because they’re getting hammered on the doorstep, unless they’re part of the vanishingly small number you can trust, you have no way of knowing if this is genuine or just a way to divert resources
Remember as well that by 2019 the leadership would have been concretely aware of the wrecking that went on in 2017 and how resources were deliberately diverted based on bullshit. This would undoubtedly impact how strategy is organised
(Telling as well that the ‘A Labour MP texts’ genre of tweets were virtually identical between 2017 and 2019 despite the divergent results, again indicating how much was bad faith and therefore hard to rely on)
Mistakes were made, and in part Corbyn’s team are at fault for not doing more to restructure and democratise the party, getting to caught into thinking another election would be just around the corner and consequently trapping themselves
The lesson to learn for the Left, if they ever get anywhere near power again, is to be bold; opponents will complain and roar but they’re going to do that regardless.
As Oskar Lange had it ‘socialism...is not for the timid’
As Oskar Lange had it ‘socialism...is not for the timid’
