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Hadn't thought of this angle, but it does make sense - if you keep telling people the Labour Party has been *institutionally* corrupted, sooner or later they'll start to believe you.
Hadn't thought of this angle, but it does make sense - if you keep telling people the Labour Party has been *institutionally* corrupted, sooner or later they'll start to believe you.
From UKPR here:
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/10143
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/10143
Why didn't they say the problem was just Corbyn, if the problem was just Corbyn?
Because the problem was never just Corbyn - it was Corbyn and McDonnell and Abbott and Long Bailey and Burgon, and it was all the members who supported all those people.
Because the problem was never just Corbyn - it was Corbyn and McDonnell and Abbott and Long Bailey and Burgon, and it was all the members who supported all those people.
Why didn't they say the problem was the members, specifically the members being too left-wing?
To be fair, they *did* say that. The problem was that it sounded ridiculous.
To be fair, they *did* say that. The problem was that it sounded ridiculous.
Once you've laid the groundwork through attacks on Corbyn - once you've hammered on his personal antisemitism until it's no longer something even his critics deny, but is so taken for granted that it's a comedy punchline - "institutional antisemitism" doesn't sound ridiculous.
It sounds appalling. It sounds unlikely, admittedly, but it's a substantial enough charge that you would want to investigate it very seriously. And until that charge has been dispelled - that charge of *institutional* racism - are you really going to want to vote for that party?
If that institutional charge has stuck - and a lot of people worked long and hard to make it stick - we aren't going to be able to undo it with a quick wipe of the EHRC sponge.
"As we can see, the Labour Party *was* institutionally antisemitic, but then they lost the election and changed their leader and had a bit of a think, and now it isn't institutionally antisemitic any more."
People aren't going to fall for that.
People aren't going to fall for that.
If I'm right, Labour's not going to look 'clean' again until some unknown date in the future - which may well be beyond 2024 - and there's an upper limit to how well we can do between now and then, which we may well be hitting already.
