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A story of attrition and defeat
NICK WRIGHT reflects on Owen Jones’s account of the Corbyn years, This Land, The Story of a Movement

LAST week’s parliamentary debacle was a depressing affair. The Labour opposition failed to oppose a Bill that would permit agents of the imperial state to commit crimes without fear of the consequences that would be visited on Her Majesty’s less privileged subjects.

It illustrated just how far we are from the hopes and expectations that were engendered when, as recently as early last year, Jeremy Corbyn’s party was regularly clocking 40 per cent approval ratings. 

Then the prospect of a left-led Labour government seemed more real to our ruling class than it did even to the most optimistic on our side of the class war. And they acted accordingly.

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