Boris Johnson

[Shabby Russian]

This government was NEVER fit for office and has NEVER had any integrity and has ALWAYS been a stranger to the truth.

Still Brexit ay?!?! I hope it was worth it!

Maybe don’t let a complete no hoper lead the opposition into two elections next time, eh?

I'm no fan of Jeremy Corbyn but to call someone who got 40% of the popular vote (against 42.4% for the Tories) in 2017 a no-hoper is stretching it a bit. Labour won 30% of the seats in parliament against 37% for the Tories.

The 2019 election was won on the lies of the easiest Brexit deal ever, the country was tired of the stalemate in parliament over Brexit and just wanted it done, hence the landslide. Magic beans promised to everyone - cows traded.

As someone who was out on the doors in both 2017 and 2019 it was ridiculously obvious that Corbyn would never be prime minister - he was absolutely detested in the places you need votes to win a majority. 

In 2017 he was 64 seats off a majority, regardless of vote percentages underpinned by massive upticks in safe seats, student towns and Tory majorities being squeezed by conservative voters being pissed off by May that isn’t anywhere near close, despite being up against the worst conservative prime ministerial election campaign ever seen. 2019 we all know about, absolutely obliterated.

He was a no hoper, he ended every election campaign worse than he started off. Despite all this, Labour kept sending him out and he was even allowed to bumble on for months after

Not sure your reading of the 2017 GE is the same as mine TTM, but at least you accept it happened, many commentators have felt it best all round to erase it from history. 

You are wrong, Labour were in a far stronger position immediately after the election than they were before it. That under Corbyn's leadership they went on to squander that improved position is also true.

Most commentators who try to explain away Labour's performance in that election always point to how poor May was as a PM and her poor campaign in that GE.

On that she is comfortably a more competent PM than either her immediate predecessor or successor. 

And there is no doubt that the Tory campaign was poor, it didn't stop the party getting 13 million votes, more than Cameron got in winning the 2015 GE, and only 200k less than they got in 2019.

The reason why the Tories failed to get a majority in 2017, was not a failure on their part to get their vote out, but because Labour performed far better than anybody expected. And only Labour's failure to regain dominance in Scotland stopped Labour from winning.