General Election 2019

People keep trying to argue for single issue post rationalisations. Please stop.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/december/labour-s-defeat?fbclid=IwAR3rUaCI-lXhi-IthUXEf4C93g5yXGOpX6-S4fOC0ntw5CttDBrlhOHUUA8

There wasn’t an obvious way for Labour to have won this election. The usual bromides will be offered up: it was Corbyn, no, it was Brexit, no, it was the manifesto, no, it was the press, no, it was credibility. All of them are in various ways true, but in all ways only partial: attitudes to Corbyn have hardened considerably since 2017; Brexit blew open a long persistent crack in Labour’s voter base; the press is execrable and even harder to deal with in the digital era.