A cautionary tale for US Democrats if only because of negative media framing of Jeremy Corbyn. Labour’s worst defeat since the 1930s.
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Disinformation, racism, Islamophobia, and fascist rhetoric — aided and amplified by the world’s largest social media platform, Facebook — just swung another election. Pay attention to this one, America. #UKElection
— Caroline Orr Bueno (@RVAwonk) December 12, 2019
Exit poll
386 Tory
191 Labour
Tory majority of 81
Tories seize pro-Labour strongholds https://t.co/ClgICI2bE2 #UKElection pic.twitter.com/NQHIM9rEI9
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) December 13, 2019
'This duplicitous, gutless, reckless prime minister has been elected on one issue alone.'
Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry vows to continue Labour's fight to save the country from Johnson's Brexit https://t.co/cLnCAxZ38f pic.twitter.com/ULXMZShyXm
— ITV News (@itvnews) December 13, 2019
No-one should dare try to pin this catastrophe on Corbyn alone. Those really to blame are the woke liberals and Toytown revolutionaries who dominate today's Labour party and forced Corbyn to support a second referendum. In doing so, they have brought about electoral oblivion.
— Paul Embery (@PaulEmbery) December 12, 2019