Corbyn was also trying to navigate Brexit for those two elections and anything less than a full-throated insistence on parroting “Brexit means Brexit” turned the pro-Brexit crowd away, while the anti-Brexit crowd turned away in advance because he was in favour of it. He bottled it before that second election he lost and tried to get the anti-Brexit crowd back on board and just alienated the pro-Brexit crowd
I don’t think there was a way to win it. The remainers knew it was electoral suicide to ignore Brexit, but would attack him until he moved to that position.
I agree, there probably wasn’t really a winning move for him, but he still panicked after the European elections that year and decided to push the idea of a second referendum more and that definitely killed whatever chance he had in that last election
Corbyn was also trying to navigate Brexit for those two elections and anything less than a full-throated insistence on parroting “Brexit means Brexit” turned the pro-Brexit crowd away, while the anti-Brexit crowd turned away in advance because he was in favour of it. He bottled it before that second election he lost and tried to get the anti-Brexit crowd back on board and just alienated the pro-Brexit crowd
Yes and know. I remember many rejecting Corbyn for not ignoring Brexit. The party members were very split over the subject.
I don’t think there was a way to win it. The remainers knew it was electoral suicide to ignore Brexit, but would attack him until he moved to that position.
I agree, there probably wasn’t really a winning move for him, but he still panicked after the European elections that year and decided to push the idea of a second referendum more and that definitely killed whatever chance he had in that last election