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Thanks.
This resonates.
In the end, we lost because part of the former industrial working class in the
Midlands and the North has detached itself from the values that are now core to our
party. That is the result of a decades long process, which began under Tony Blair,
and was never going to be turned around in six weeks.I guess I differ in my reading of events in that I thought the handling of Brexit made the leadership look ridiculous. Whereas Mason (who is obviously closer to the party than I am) seems to say the handling of Brexit just exposed how dysfunctional the leadership was all along.
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For me the free broadband pledge was the end of Corbyn's Labour as a serious political force. The WASPI women stuff, four day week, green revolution, et al, were just nails in the coffin.
When you took three or four of the policies from the manifesto, they were incredibly popular. That doesn't mean that putting 30 of them in the same manifesto wasn't profoundly damaging for Corbyn's economic credibility.