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The electorate was biased against Corbyn

There are cries of agony around the UK this weekend.

It's appalling and indeed [i]revolting[/i] that Jeremy Corbyn has fallen victim to the outrageous voting bias of the British public, last Thursday.

It's only appropriate that there should be a debate now about how to nationalise the electorate to ensure they work for the many in the JC4PM WhatsApp group - and not for the few who voted Conservative.

What the Mainstream Electorate fail to understand, (being too stupid to make rational decisions of their own), is that the policies in the Labour manifesto were all [i]extremely popular[/i], from the free Caesar salads and puppies every Easter, to compensation for wasp stings.

Peering through his special spectacles which allow him to turn a blind eye to antisemitism (but not to someone voting Lib Dem), Corbyn boasted, having managed to reduce the Labour vote even in his own constituency, that Labour "put forward a manifesto of hope.”

He is oblivious to the implication that if the policies were so good there must have been something (or someone) else that was so nauseously off-putting that people decided not to vote Labour.

As Corbyn correctly noted in the notresignation speech, the media intrusion into the lives of people who want to run the country is outrageous, when they ask highly personal questions like “what’s your favourite biscuit?”, “how did you not realise that mural was anti-Jewish?” and “why haven’t you resigned yet?”.

I'll admit I'm not a Labour voter (to date), but Magic Grandpa once seemed so nice. He was genuinely like Father Christmas, only with ill-fitting suits and carrier bags of photocopied leaflets and endearing queries like “would you like to see my holiday pics from Venezuela?”. But underneath it all he turned out to be short-tempered, intolerant, and nasty.

Like a particularly tedious episode of Scooby Doo, the electorate finally pulled off the preposterous rubber mask to reveal the baddie inside. (And he’d have got away with it, if it weren’t for those meddling voters).

Labour members should take note. A leader who has stronger views on manhole covers and marrows and the ludicrous Diane Abbott than the central question facing the country today, and who opted to sit in the middle of a polarised debate, probably isn't the sort of person you want to put forward as a prospective PM in the future.

Also it turns out that if you tell everyone (including me, when canvassed) to “piss off then and vote for the Tories” they probably will.

The Grumpy Grandpa used to snap at interviewers, “Can I finish?”

You are well and truly finished. Sod off and take the rest of your disastrous clique with you.

Faced with such an appalling alternative prospect for Prime Minister in the figure of the Rt. Hon. Mem. for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, there is no one whatsoever to blame for Labour's debacle but its fringe leadership.

Because it's certainly not, cries from some in SW and elsewhere to the contrary, the voters.
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OggggO · 36-40, M
Meanwhile, over in reality:
https://www.fairvote.ca/2019/12/13/ukelection/
DaySpider · 22-25, F
I don't like FPTP, @OggggO , but I also think we shouldn't blame the system. All the parties knew how it worked before the election (much as the Democrats knew about the electoral college before 2016).

[b]If they cannot, knowing how the voting system works, organise themselves to prevent a Tory majority, then frankly they do not deserve to win one of their own.[/b]

Again, I reserve ire entirely for Labour, who refused to co-operate with (and indeed actively worked against!) other Remain parties, or Remain/moderately-minded former Tory independents like Dominic Grieve.

Labour (like a portion of the Democrats in the US) are more interested in being right than being in power, apparently.
OggggO · 36-40, M
@DaySpider Right, they just had to plan to overcome the bias of a publicly funded media, the largest news source in the country, which is supposed to be neutral and honest, actively campaigning against them with disinformation:
https://twitter.com/hot_diggity_d/status/1204860593934610432?s=20
https://twitter.com/trumpy675/status/1204811854725423104?s=20
https://twitter.com/rachshabi/status/1204440835431030785?s=20

There's more, but I don't have time to find it right now.
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DaySpider · 22-25, F
@OggggO I can make anything look bad when taken out of context. I'm not sure what you're trying to prove. It doesn't convince me of anything.

Had Labour won (which given its insane manifesto and hapless leader, was always going to be a long shot for anyone not part of the cult), the Tories would be complaining of BBC bias.

I'm a Lib Dem. We're *always* on the receiving end of it. But we know the BBC gives it out in all directions. The fact everyone complains is evidence enough it's fairly neutral. Kuenssberg is merely in love with herself...
OggggO · 36-40, M
@DaySpider [quote]I can make anything look bad when taken out of context.[/quote]

Cool. But only bad things look bad when in context, such as those examples.