It would have just been something else. Antisemitism is just the one that stuck, but if that hadn’t worked they would have kept trying to put people off one way or another.
As much as Corbin had decent ideas, his handling of the press was abysmal
To me, Corbyn’s problem was being too nice. When the party needed an old fashioned Stalinist purge of Blairites he made the arch Blairite his Brexit secretary.
When Blair purged socialists from the party he rejected calls for Corbyn to be expelled, because he didn’t consider him a threat, you should always learn from your opponents’ mistakes.
It would have just been something else. Antisemitism is just the one that stuck, but if that hadn’t worked they would have kept trying to put people off one way or another.
As much as Corbin had decent ideas, his handling of the press was abysmal
To me, Corbyn’s problem was being too nice. When the party needed an old fashioned Stalinist purge of Blairites he made the arch Blairite his Brexit secretary.
When Blair purged socialists from the party he rejected calls for Corbyn to be expelled, because he didn’t consider him a threat, you should always learn from your opponents’ mistakes.