They said Labour could never win under Corbyn. Turns out they were right – for all the wrong reasons

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How fortunate for those with Jeremy Corbyn’s blood on their hands that the leaked dossier on antisemitism in the Labour Party has tumbled out at the height of the coronavirus crisis. This outrage merely confirms what most party members have suspected all along – and now we have the smoking gun to prove it.

Since last December, members have had to put up with the unrelenting narrative emanating from Labour “colleagues” putatively on Corbyn’s own side, that Labour “could never have won under Corbyn”. Well in a somewhat grotesque sense, they were correct – in that these people were going to make absolutely certain that Labour could never win while Corbyn was in charge.

Notwithstanding the incessant attacks from the cuckoos in Labour’s nest undermining Corbyn at every turn (including Lord Mandelson doing his bit “every single day”), Labour under Corbyn almost won power in 2017. And with even a modicum of support from these unremitting underminers between 2015 and 2017, we’d have had a Labour government in power for the last three and a half years.

Hundreds of thousands of people joined Labour because of Jeremy Corbyn – and we’ve had to witness the annihilation of a decent, modest man by the mainstream media, in connivance with fifth columnists in his own party. Corbyn will go down in history as one of Labour’s great leaders; and this as one of its most shameful episodes.

Dr Richard House
Stroud, Gloucestershire

More equal animals

A cabinet minister, Robert Jenrick, ignores his own instructions to the population to stay at home, and sends his children to school in London whilst maintaining that his family home is in Herefordshire. Another cabinet minister, Michael Gove, deems his daughter more deserving of a Covid-19 test than any frontline NHS or care worker, and is apparently unable to work from home. Now we learn that Boris Johnson has travelled to a country residence to convalesce, thus failing to lead by example, and stay at home in Downing Street. We are told that the government is on a war footing, yet parliament is on holiday. The hypocrisy, arrogance and lack of empathy demonstrated by the above serves to underscore the unpalatable reality as described by Tom Peck, namely that Britain “has never been so badly governed”.

Dominica Jewell
Bazoches-au-Houlme​, France

“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” – George Orwell, Animal Farm

Glynne Williams
Walthamstow, London

The dog ate my homework

Once again the health secretary has failed to hand in his homework on time but promises that it really, really will be ready “soon”.

Ian Hurdley
Ferndown, Bournemouth

Under-lying

It is heartening to see that the prime minister is on the mend and that he is expected to make a full recovery, but it can hardly be considered to be surprising.

Covid-19 is known to present the greatest risk to those with underlying conditions and, whilst I have no access to Johnson’s medical history, I am quite certain that if there is one complaint that he has never been troubled by, it is under-lying.

Julian Self​
Wolverton, Milton Keynes