If Corbyn had kept his commitments to a better funded NHS / Social care you would have a point. I suspect that he might have won the GE on that platform.

The problem was his irresponsible fiscal commitments on all the other sectors of the economy probably frightened off the voters. The lesson for Labour is to focus on a few specific pledges that they can demonstrate to the public can be funded. I got the impression that Corbyn and his chancellor were making it up as they went along promising all things to all people.

Practical politicians understand that you cannot solve all of the problems at once you have to prioritise.

Will likely be buried in in all the coronavirus news but Labour report on Antisemitism for EHRC has now been blocked from going to the commission. Corbyn said to be furious about this.

The investigation, which was completed in the last month of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, claims to have found "no evidence" of antisemitism complaints being treated differently to other forms of complaint, or of current or former staff being "motivated by antisemitic intent".

Instead, the report concludes there was a lack of "robust processes, systems, training, education and effective line management" and found "abundant evidence of a hyper-factional atmosphere prevailing in Party HQ" towards Mr Corbyn which "affected the expeditious and resolute handling of disciplinary complaints".

[Link]

Ironically many of the people complaining about antisemitism within the party seemingly were making it harder to resolve...

Will likely be buried in in all the coronavirus news but Labour report on Antisemitism for EHRC has now been blocked from going to the commission. Corbyn said to be furious about this.

The investigation, which was completed in the last month of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, claims to have found "no evidence" of antisemitism complaints being treated differently to other forms of complaint, or of current or former staff being "motivated by antisemitic intent".

Instead, the report concludes there was a lack of "robust processes, systems, training, education and effective line management" and found "abundant evidence of a hyper-factional atmosphere prevailing in Party HQ" towards Mr Corbyn which "affected the expeditious and resolute handling of disciplinary complaints".

[Link]

Ironically many of the people complaining about antisemitism within the party seemingly were making it harder to resolve...

The title of the link implies it is not the EHCR report

""Labour antisemitism investigation will not be sent to equality commission""

To be honest not a well written piece of journalism as it is ambiguous I read it as Labour's own report which Corbyn wants sent to the EHCR as evidence?.

Anyway I agree with your comments I was not expecting rampant anti Semitism to be proven and factional in fighting almost certainly a contributory factor if not the main reason.

If it's the anti Corbyn faction putting the boot in it also reflects poorly on Corbyn's leadership why did he not get to grips with the blockers and fire them.

If it's Corbyn's mates sticking up for their friends and delaying investigation same thing applies. Either way Corbyn and the Labour will not come out of it well.

Saying the process was flawed as individuals who hate Corbyn were allowed to obfuscate still doesn't reflect well on him or the party.

Ironic that all complaints are acted on in the same manner. In anyones world this was really serious so surely should have be given a higher priority. Not put in a pile with minor complaints about possibly diddly squat. Just an observation as I'm not in any way knowledgableble about how this process works in the labour party.

This is absolutely staggering. But not surprising, for anyone who has been following the issue closely.

Labour under Corbyn nearly tripled its membership. But this wasn't supported by an increase in its disciplinary staff, which obviously became a major issue once the factionalism began.

People now will of course blame Momentum, and as they lost there will be little chance to refute this narrative of the past. But the simply truth is: the Labour party machinery which had been in place since Blair began a systematic attempt to dislodge Corbyn and the team around him.

The most obvious examples of this were the two botched coup attempts by the PLP. But behind the scenes something far more insidious was going on. New members of the NEC, staff members at local branches and even Corbyn's own team were being denied access to crucial internal party information.

Then anti-semitism happened. Now without boring people, I will stick to the facts here.

The only impartial data collection done on anti-semitism in UK politics worth note was a 2017 poll done by Yougov of party members from each main party in the UK. It found that anti-semitic views were highest agreed with by Conservatives, and Labour members were least likely to hold anti-semitic views. In fact, since Corbyn came to office, Labour members' had become less anti-semitic. [Link]

This isn't to say there was no anti-semitism problem in Labour. But Labour was a reflection of society at large: with blind spots, certainly, but not institutionally anti-semitic.

But as the leadership struggled to make this point, the right of the party realised its opportunity. It relentlessly targeted pro-Corbyn members as anti-semitic, filed thousands of complaints to a party tribunal which was completely underprepared for such an event, then pushed the leadership to automatically suspend anyone accused of anti-semitism, which, of course, contradicts the very tenets of justice in this country.

This led to events as bizarre as Jewish members of Labour, like Jackie Walker, being suspended because of claims of anti-semitism made, often, by non-Jewish accusers.

The media, either through ignorance or because they gleefully were jumping on any anti-Corbyn bandwagon they could find (remember Corbyn the Czech spy?) ran with it. They utilised their psychopathic tabloid reporter staff to go through every tweet, facebook post or online comment from new members to find the headlines which fuelled the fire.

When left wing members tried to raise this point, even by democratic means, this was seen as further evidence of anti-semitism. Take when Joan Ryan, MP for Enfield, had a vote of no-condfidence put against her by her local party. She immediately blamed it on 'Stalinists and communists'. Yet it had been driven because she had been filmed taking payment from an Israeli official, and accusing pro-Palestinian activists of anti-semitism. Again, making this connection was enough to have you suspended from the Labour party, but it is, of course, on record. [Link]

And so we are brought to today, where an 860 page independent document on the issue has been rejected, presumably because it is uncomfortable for the new leadership and their carte blanche acceptance of Labour under Corbyn as institutionally anti-semitic.

I know this is a tedious and long post. I write it purely to exercise my own frustrations, as someone who knows people who have been suspended because of it, was sick of the weakness shown by the previous leadership in tackling it, and is even more sickened at the new leadership, who will know the truth, at deciding, instead, to cowardly continue the lie.

It means all levels of discrimination or racism were treated as the same level of severity. I.e. antisemitism wasn’t deemed less important than say islamophobia, which was an criticism from some within the party.

This is absolutely staggering. But not surprising, for anyone who has been following the issue closely.

Labour under Corbyn nearly tripled its membership. But this wasn't supported by an increase in its disciplinary staff, which obviously became a major issue once the factionalism began.

People now will of course blame Momentum, and as they lost there will be little chance to refute this narrative of the past. But the simply truth is: the Labour party machinery which had been in place since Blair began a systematic attempt to dislodge Corbyn and the team around him.

The most obvious examples of this were the two botched coup attempts by the PLP. But behind the scenes something far more insidious was going on. New members of the NEC, staff members at local branches and even Corbyn's own team were being denied access to crucial internal party information.

Then anti-semitism happened. Now without boring people, I will stick to the facts here.

The only impartial data collection done on anti-semitism in UK politics worth note was a 2017 poll done by Yougov of party members from each main party in the UK. It found that anti-semitic views were highest agreed with by Conservatives, and Labour members were least likely to hold anti-semitic views. In fact, since Corbyn came to office, Labour members' had become less anti-semitic. [Link]

This isn't to say there was no anti-semitism problem in Labour. But Labour was a reflection of society at large: with blind spots, certainly, but not institutionally anti-semitic.

But as the leadership struggled to make this point, the right of the party realised its opportunity. It relentlessly targeted pro-Corbyn members as anti-semitic, filed thousands of complaints to a party tribunal which was completely underprepared for such an event, then pushed the leadership to automatically suspend anyone accused of anti-semitism, which, of course, contradicts the very tenets of justice in this country.

This led to events as bizarre as Jewish members of Labour, like Jackie Walker, being suspended because of claims of anti-semitism made, often, by non-Jewish accusers.

The media, either through ignorance or because they gleefully were jumping on any anti-Corbyn bandwagon they could find (remember Corbyn the Czech spy?) ran with it. They utilised their psychopathic tabloid reporter staff to go through every tweet, facebook post or online comment from new members to find the headlines which fuelled the fire.

When left wing members tried to raise this point, even by democratic means, this was seen as further evidence of anti-semitism. Take when Joan Ryan, MP for Enfield, had a vote of no-condfidence put against her by her local party. She immediately blamed it on 'Stalinists and communists'. Yet it had been driven because she had been filmed taking payment from an Israeli official, and accusing pro-Palestinian activists of anti-semitism. Again, making this connection was enough to have you suspended from the Labour party, but it is, of course, on record. [Link]

And so we are brought to today, where an 860 page independent document on the issue has been rejected, presumably because it is uncomfortable for the new leadership and their carte blanche acceptance of Labour under Corbyn as institutionally anti-semitic.

I know this is a tedious and long post. I write it purely to exercise my own frustrations, as someone who knows people who have been suspended because of it, was sick of the weakness shown by the previous leadership in tackling it, and is even more sickened at the new leadership, who will know the truth, at deciding, instead, to cowardly continue the lie.