Corbyn revels in defeat while Johnson packs his victory speech with lies

Shortly before 2.30am, Jeremy Corbyn arrived, smiling and waving to his supporters at his Islington count.No one appeared to have told him that Labour was suffering its worst result at a general election since 1935 and was predicted to win fewer than 200 seats.

An hour later,once the declaration had been made,the severity of the defeat still hadn't sunk in as the Labour leader began his acceptance speech.It was a disappointing night,he said.
A setback,nothing more.If his manifesto had had a flaw,it was that it had been too good for the country.It had been the country's fault that Labour had not won the election.The people had allowed themselves to be manipulated by the mainstream media into being distracted by Brexit.

However,even though he took no responsibility for Labour's defeat, Corbyn did concede that he wouldn't lead the party into another glorious general election. He would stand down, but in his own time.Only after he had been able to engineer a suitable replacement who would build on his magnificent legacy and lead Labour to an even more crushing humiliation.

Just minutes later,Boris Johnson gave his own acceptance speech, trying and failing not to smirk too obviously.This was his birthright. The man who didn't give a fuck about anything was free to do whatever the fuck he wanted.Astonishingly, even though Boris kept his speech down to just a few minutes,he still managed to squeeze a few lies into it.Just imagine.Your first act on being re-elected prime minister is to lie to the entire country.Start as you mean to go on.Don't say you haven't been warned.

The shark has well and truly been jumped and the truth has become a foreign country. And it's the Tories who have been the worst offenders,adopting every trick in the book.Why tell a small lie when you're so much better off going big? And if you are caught out lying, never apologise.
Just double down on it.Tell a lie often enough,then some people will believe it.And a substantial number had been dumb enough to fall for "Get Brexit done".The most egregious lie of all.

So we were heading for a Tory government and a Brexit that would continue to divide the country.
Hell,it was odds on that not even a majority of leavers would like the Brexit deal Boris ended up with.Not that Boris gave a toss.He was the World King.Entitlement rules OK.And in the meantime,Corbyn would soon be eased out.Written out of Labour's history.A bad four-year dream that had cost the party and the country dear.Only a few faint echoes of his most loyal supporters could be heard.Sooner or later it would dawn on them that they had been pissing in the wind.


From an article by John Crace,the Guardian.