Maybe it wasn’t all Corbyn

As we know, when a major political event occurs it is a good idea to look at it from as many sides as possible. For example, we could consider a possibility that the recent heavy general election defeat suffered by the Labour party might not have been down to Jeremy Corbyn and co. Unlikely but worth considering because political trends do not always advertise themselves with conveniently obvious clues.

Suppose there is something evolving within the internet, something slowly arising within social media and the fantastically complex brew of information and political viewpoints. Suppose that something is related to what we might loosely call political adulthood – voters growing up as the internet tells them the political facts of life. A seriously scary prospect for all political classes.

After decades of being patronised via a heavily manipulated democracy, voters may be slowly asserting their political individuality. This would not be the ludicrous notion of collective individuality as understood by the Labour party, woke activists and the political left generally, but something far less constrained and far more – erm - individual.

In the patronising/condescending corner we have –

The BBC, NHS, National Trust, EU, UN, Greenpeace, WWF, national charities, advertisers, Hollywood, mainstream media, numerous pundits, numerous celebrities, the entire climate change game, everything woke, the Harry n’Meghan project and so on. A more complete list could be vast.

In which case maybe the Labour party debacle was going to happen anyway because it is the party of the collective, not the individual and Labour folk make that all too plain. They can’t help themselves and that too is pretty obvious.

Brexit made things worse because this is also a hint that the wheels may be coming off the collective bandwagon. If individuality is flexing its muscles that does nothing for the EU which wets itself at the very notion of anything individual.

Maybe the Corbyn effect saved Labour from an even worse debacle – imagine Emily Thornberry running the show. If so then this would also be a reason why the Lib Dems performed so badly when votes were there for whoever listens to the evolving political imperative –

Don’t talk down to us – we’ve looked you up on the internet.

All this is merely political musing I know, but the election of Donald Trump lends some support because he most certainly is an individual, as is Boris Johnson. The anti-individual collectivists hate them both.