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🗓️ 14 February 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:00.0 | Corbinism, the post-mortem, is kindly sponsored by the Media Masters podcast, a series of one-to-one |
0:06.1 | interviews with the very biggest media names, hosted by Paul Blanchard. You can tune in any time at |
0:11.7 | Mediamasters.fmastres. And now, here's the show. This is obviously a very disappointing night |
0:19.0 | for the Labour Party. I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign. |
0:28.6 | I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result |
0:36.6 | and on the policies that the party will take going forward. |
0:43.4 | It's not, it's not Corbinism. There is no such thing as Corbynism. |
0:48.6 | In 2014, Labour's first Jewish leader, Ed Miliband, built cross-party consensus for a symbolic but |
0:56.1 | ultimately meaningless parliamentary vote supporting Palestinian statehood. |
1:00.4 | While the campaign for Palestinian rights has been a long-standing tradition on the British |
1:04.4 | left, it has had little to show in the way of foreign policy success. |
1:08.8 | When a stalwart to far- left pro-Palestine activism became |
1:12.3 | labour frontrunner, activists became hopeful that under Jeremy Corbyn the party could achieve more than |
1:17.4 | Miliband had done. However, Corbyn's record of activism often went far beyond social democratic |
1:23.2 | traditions, including public defences of perpetrators of political violence. And as that history |
1:28.8 | came to light, many within the party began to raise concerns. Debate surrounding these issues |
1:33.6 | descended into explicit hostility, as his supporters virulently defended him against questions |
1:38.9 | regarding his history, considering any legitimate questions to be part of a coordinated smear campaign. |
1:44.6 | The atmosphere quickly began to toxify, and as high-profile incidents, |
1:48.6 | such as Corbyn's defence of an anti-Semitic mural, |
1:51.2 | began to circulate in the press, |
1:52.9 | Jewish Labour members who voiced their grievances became victims of anti-Semitic abuse. |
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