PedallingNowhereSlowly
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What Corbyn and his acolytes can't grasp is that you need seats to win an election, not votes (and certainly not the hordes of new Labour party members that they kept crowing about). A handful of votes in Tory marginals, not more votes in Labour safe seats, and you won't steal votes from Tories by moving to the left.
This is utter BS.
Corbyn was LOTO. Not secretary. Not in charge of party funding.
The strategy that Corbyn and his team wanted to enact was not enacted. Instead, campaign funding was diverted away from the marginal seats which were targetted to the seats of Blairite incumbents. A secret organisation within the Labour Party was set-up to coordinate this. Facebook micro-targetting was used to ensure Corbyn and his team saw FB advertisements that supported their campaign strategy.
The factionalism within Labour and the right wing press is what did Corbyn in. Not any failure to grasp how democracy in this country actually works.
EDIT: Grammar