LABOUR LOSING ELECTIONS: Six in a Row

THE STATISTICAL SPIRIT: Can they count to six?

FREELANCE journalist, Elenor Penny wrote in the Independent on the 14th, December:  'This new politics, embodied by Jeremy Corbyn, has lost it first electoral showdown.  But the circumstances of its defeat should embolden us... Losing this battle was always an option.  Losing the war is unthinkable.'

Yet, surely this 'electoral showdown' is now no less than the sixth attempt that, according to Private Eye, that Corbyn has lost out?  If we count last May's European elections, in which the Labour Party came third, and the four sets of local elections under his leadership, it was the sixth contest in which he had floundered and come to nowt.

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