As the week rolls on, the recriminations just keep coming. One thing is for sure, its still not Jeremy’s fault. So, despite the best evidence to the contrary, Mr S has decided to update the list of reasons given by Corbynistas as to why their leader fell so flat.
The ‘print media’
Dawn Butler was asked on Sky News on the night of the election whether voters’ dislike of Jeremy Corbyn was responsible. Not so, she said. ‘The media contributed to it,’ she insisted. Butler also suggested that adverts placed by the Tories didn’t help matters. Meanwhile, Corbynistas on Twitter were more specific in who was responsible: the Observer. In a damning leader just before the election, the paper called out what it described as ‘Corbyn’s disgraceful anti-Semitism crisis’. Corbynista cheerleader Aaron Bastani said the Tory victory in Kensington was down to the Sunday newspaper.
Voters ignoring the ‘winning argument’
To much consternation, Jeremy Corbyn penned an article in the Observer (yes, the same sheet that lost the party Kensington) in which he claimed that Labour had ‘won the argument’.
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