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The attacks started because the "centrists" (let's instead call them moderates) knew, from bitter experience, what happens to Labour's electability when they swing too far to the left. And they were right.
So it was a pre-emptive strike, which ended up being self-fulfilling. Convenient.
It may well be that Corbyn was attacked partly because his policies worried some vested interests. But it's also the case he was attacked because he was easy to attack.
This is pretty meaningless really. He simply would not have suffered the same level of attacks from nearly all sides had he been more prepared to kowtow to those with money.
Ah yes, the totemic 'increasing vote share'. You completely took the wrong lessons from that loss. Instead of asking why you fell short, you asked how can we double down. You doubled down on what turned out to be, on a longer timescale, a losing strategy.
When you, as a party, elect a leader on the basis that he believes in what he is saying and has the principles to follow through, then for him to drop those ideas simply because the centre moved to the right is to yet again abandon the left. Why when there is clearly(check polling) such support for those policies? Because he's wrongly been painted as an evil commie who hates the UK.
Which "powerful lobby group" is that then? Go on say what you mean.
Pathetic.
I find this funny. I know what group YOU mean, but I was actually talking primarily about the right wing lobby groups who seemed to inject a spokesperson into nearly every news broadcast from 2016 up to the last election. But go ahead, assume I'm so paranoid and concerned about Jewish lobby groups that I am only talking about them and hiding behind inference. No, if I thought they were the major reason I would have listed them specifically. Not every leftist is against Jews you know? In fact, I know none that are. You're still buying the agenda.