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@punkture
Corbyns epitaph is surely that he failed to beat the worst Tory party for a long time. His incompetence as a leader and refusal to address hugely damaging issues such as the institutional anti semitism in the party and Brexit define him.
He missed countless open goals, stayed unacceptably quiet over Brexit (both in the referendum and afterwards) and pathetically blamed it on the media, as if he had nothing to do with his failures.
Not an ounce of pragmatism in the man.
He was the left's big opportunity in this country and he fucked it. Worst election defeat for 80 odd years and he still thought that 'he won the argument'. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Starmer seems competent, very left wing (despite peoples strange desires to present him as a slick centrist), and although slightly dull will hopefully rebuild the damage Corbyn caused in 2024 so that winning is a realistic possibility in 2029, potentially with a new leader.