The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power - Alex Nunns
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In June 2017, an earthquake shook the very foundations of British politics. With Labour widely predicted to suffer a crushing defeat in the general election, Jeremy Corbyn instead achieved a stunning upset - a hung parliament, the humiliation of Theresa May’s government, and more than 40 percent of the vote.
A lifelong and uncompromising socialist, Corbyn had, against all expectations, been dramatically elected leader of the party in September 2015. In the space of less than two years, he had progressed from 200-to-one outsider for the Labour Party leadership to become an apparent Prime Minister-in-waiting.
How these events came about is the subject of Alex Nunns’ highly listenable and richly researched account. Drawing on firsthand interviews with those involved in the leadership and general-election campaigns, including Labour’s most senior figures, Nunns traces the origins of Corbyn’s ascent. Giving full justice to the dramatic swings and nail-biting tensions of an extraordinary moment in UK politics, Nunns’ telling of a story that has received widespread attention but little understanding is as illuminating as it is entertaining.
Selected by The Guardian as one of the best politics books of 2016, this updated edition includes a new introduction and an extensive afterword that brings an extraordinary story right up to date.
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This post has 14 comments with rating of 5/5
July 2nd, 2018
def gonna be some profit over people tears flowing in the comments. thanks for the upload
July 2nd, 2018
Thanks for another interesting title, enigma. Corbyn seems like a decent guy, who has been consistent on his principles over the years. But he is practicing student politics at a national level - the actions of Momentum to silence critical voices within the party is also extremely disturbing. Labour’s problem with anti-semitism has not been addressed to anyone’s satisfaction. Some courageous party members have voiced concerns, but they have to face the wrath of Momentum.
Theresa May is in office but not in power. Her cabinet constitutes the least impressive group of politicians I’ve ever seen, out of their depth in every conceivable regard. However, it’s unlikely that the electorate will hazard a Corbyn-led government, especially in the current disastrous context. At one of the most critical junctures in their history, the British Parliament, in every crucial respect, comprises a gaggle of hand-picked imbeciles.
It’ll be very difficult to unseat Corbyn and no one wants the failure of Brexit on their shoulders.
I can appreciate how younger people love Corbyn, it’s like the Bernie Sanders effect. They want radical, visible change immediately.
(@stainsthedog - sorry to be Mr Predictable).
July 2nd, 2018
@caesar963
“At one of the most critical junctures in their history, the British Parliament, in every crucial respect, comprises a gaggle of hand-picked imbeciles.”
America feels your pain as we have the same problem in our White House and Congress.
July 2nd, 2018
caesar963 - nice fair summary. Both parties seemed stuck in stalemate with their own civil wars and the majority of the public are not happy.
July 2nd, 2018
@hardworker55337 - It seems to be everywhere, but we’re looking at the British debacle from Ireland (our lot are just as rubbish, btw). We’re close to Britain economically and socially, as well as geographically, and the situation impacts us a great deal (especially because of the Northern Irish border and the threat of terrorism). It’s so vital to get this thing right, but there’s no confidence that will happen. You need the best and brightest but bumbling Boris will have to suffice. It’s like watching the proverbial slow-motion car crash, powerless to intervene.
The West seems to be trapped in some kind of weird disaster movie death-spiral, at the moment.
If these politicians are the answer, then there’s something wrong with the question.
July 2nd, 2018
@loonyboyx - The opposition need to offer a clear alternative, to look like they’re ready and able for power, and that’s not even close to happening. Theresa May just looks like she wants it all to be over, like a Tory rabbit caught in the headlights.
July 3rd, 2018
@caesar, I should be thanking the uploader for this book, instead I’m facing off with someone who believes they have an idea of politics in the UK, the only issue is you should exactly like the Blairite/Bitterite fringe that the majority of the Party membership has been facing down for more than 2 years - you let the cat out of the bag with your crass comments about Momentum. As some one over 50 who’s voted Labour his entire lifetime I welcome Corbyn and the democratisation of the Labour Party, something you seem incapable of understanding. Further, I’m one of the victims of the McNicol Purges, ejected for a Tweet favourable to the Green Party in 2015. As I’m neither a Marxist, extreme Leftist or any thing but an old school Trades Unionist and Socialist your comments really do take the biscuit. I’ll leave it there before I become most annoyed with you old bean.
July 3rd, 2018
Did anyone else read that as “The Can Dad Ate”? (Dad ate a can? Was it just the can or the contents inside too? Wonder if it was beans….so many questions…)
July 3rd, 2018
26chrisr - anyone who uses “Blairite” as an insult is part of the problem and needs to get over themselves. They are allowing the Tories to stay in power.
July 3rd, 2018
26chrisr
For a while I’ve harboured the suspicion that caesar963 is actually the self absorbed Stephen Fry. Not sure if that helps you excuse him him or not … they share a certainty of their breadth ofknowledge.
July 3rd, 2018
@quivered - That’s the kind of cool-headed analysis we need right now.
@26chrisr - I respect that you’re “Old Labour” (not being ageist there) and UK politics has become quite difficult to understand over the last few years, for all of us. For instance: why wasn’t the Northern Irish border debated before the Brexit vote? Why wait till afterwards? Why wasn’t Corbyn clear during the campaign for the most important vote in modern British history? Why is Momentum working to de-select (or as you say “purge”) or intimidate anyone who doesn’t have right-think (or left-think) instead of just debating them? Isn’t that evidence that their arguments are appallingly weak? How do they win a majority of the people in that cicumstance? They’re like Militant tendency during the 1980s, but now they’re controlling the direction of the party. Democratic they are not. Anti-Semitism is not a trivial issue.
You must have missed my criticism of all the other political titans, so much for trying to be balanced.
Any other Labour leader would have won that last election - not claim victory from the opposition benches. It was something of an open goal, even with all of Corbyn’s negatives, the Tories dissolved into chaos during the campaign.
Never give your enemy an advantage - no matter how terrible the Conservatives are they can always point to Corbyn, Momentum, Anti-Semitism, bullying and intimidation. All gifts to the incompetent Tories.
The choice seems to be: morally bankrupt or actually bankrupt.
July 3rd, 2018
@Sancho2 - How the hell did you find out?
I’m not certain about anything (other than the pharmaceutically-enhanced Russian team winning the World Cup final by one hundred goals).
July 6th, 2018
This is the end result of the policies of Corbyns’s hero, Lenin:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5924819/
But I have to admit that in spite of a pro-Corbyn bias that the author makes little or no attempt to conceal, this is an excellent book for UK political junkies - the best since Tim Shipman’s, “All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class”.
Nunns has done the research and the narrative is gripping and fast-paced - hugely enjoyable.
Many thanks for posting this, daenigma100! :)
July 7th, 2018
While billionaire bankers who took nation’s money and shifted it to tax-havens snicker in corners. This is the fallout from the Financial Crisis of 2008. Not a single fraudster banker was apprehended and the whole nation was subjected to a never-ending Tory austerity. British society is totally dismantled in last 30 years of neoliberalism. Thatcher planted the seed, watered it, made it strong and all subsequent governments nourished it till the bankers robbed the nation and disappeared. Result: an almost death of our democracy, destruction of our communities, inequality, crime and hatred of your own neighbour. Jeremy Corbyn may not be perfect but he has defied the odds and will take our nation out of the mess created by neoliberalism and Blatcherism.
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