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Corbynism: The Post-Mortem

7: Defining Corbynism

Corbynism: The Post-Mortem

Corbynism: The Post-Mortem

Society & Culture, National, Government, News, Politics, Documentary

4.4285 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

What exactly is Corbynism? That is the question we set out to answer on Episode 7 of Corbynism: The Post-Mortem, with our special panel of guests featuring the left wing academics behind the book Corbynism: A Critical Approach, Frederick Harry Pitts and Matt Bolton, and music journalist Taylor Parkes, author of one of the most prescient and damning articles ever written on Corbynism.

Corbynism: A Critical Approach can be found here.

Taylor Parkes on the Corbyn campaign trail can be found here.

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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.

0:42.3

It's not Corbinism. There is no such thing as Corpism.

0:49.3

Founded out of the trade unionist movement at the turn of the 20th century, the Labour Party

0:54.8

has always represented a broad church of the British left. Since overtaking the Liberal Party in the

1:00.2

1920s, Labour of dominated British parliamentary politics alongside the Conservative Party. However,

1:06.5

electoral success has not always been easy to come by. Before Tony Blair became Labour leader in 1995,

1:13.1

it had been more than 15 years since Labour had last been in government. To win power, Blair

1:18.4

rebranded the party as New Labour, shifting it to the centre and away from its traditional socialist

1:23.5

routes, making a break with Clause 4 of Labour's constitution, which called for the common

1:28.5

ownership of industry. New Labour was a success, and Blair led the party to three successive

1:33.5

general election victories. Until in 2010, under the leadership of former Chancellor Gordon Brown,

1:39.4

they were finally beaten by a Tory Lib Dem coalition led by Conservative Party leader David Cameron.

1:46.0

New Labour were out of ideas. And, following the deeply unpopular Iraq war and the financial

1:51.6

crash of 2008, a new generation of young people who grew up in Blair's Britain were looking

1:57.0

for a change of direction. Ed Miliband's leadership of the party was often criticised

2:02.3

for not breaking decisively enough with new labour and was unable to stop Cameron from winning an outright

2:07.6

majority in 2015. Where Tony Blair had moved the party to the centre in 1995, 20 years later

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