Corbyn (and left, generally) wasn't really ready to lead party. He assumed the next election would be in 2020: by then, left
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Replying to @yeselson @ryanlcooper
would put together strategy/program/organization and, also, by '18, **replace Corbyn themselves.** Corbyn got ahead of program.
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But Brexit just made the anti-Corbyn wing panicky--both sides, in fact--and nobody knows wtf to do in short term.
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right, I mean that's my major beef with the anti-Corbyn campaign, they don't seem to have any clear reason why or goal
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other than they don't like him or his politics
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No question about it--Brexit was a pretext to get rid of him. But Jones is the very smart left here, and he realizes that
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but he also realizes that Corbyn wasn't really up to the job and wasn't doing that well. It's complicated. So it's a coup (bad)
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of a guy way over his head who wasn't doing that well and whom smart leftists people assumed would be a short termer.
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Weird thing is, nobody really spells out what Corbyn has done wrong; it's all vagaries about "leadership"
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It's bogus--they don't like him, they don't like his politics. But, as Jones points out, he's not all that popular.
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If he was truly unpopular among members, there wouldn't be this reticence about calling a leadership election...
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