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Sto caricando le informazioni... Left out : the inside story of Labour under Corbyn (edizione 2020)di Gabriel Pogrund, Patrick Maguire (Author.)
Informazioni sull'operaLeft Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn di Gabriel Pogrund
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 [T]his year has produced a bumper crop of books analysing where it all went horribly wrong for Labour last December. Owen Jones's This Land (Allen Lane) is clearly an account of Jeremy Corbyn’s downfall from inside the tent – he is open about being offered (and declining) a job working for the then new leader – while Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire's Left Out (Bodley Head) is a more conventional reporting exercise. But caricaturing one as bowdlerised and the other as hatchet job would be deeply unfair to two absorbing, nuanced accounts of the making of electoral disaster. Politics junkies will pounce on the differences – Jones's tale of tensions inside the Labour campaign to remain in Europe, for example, is noticeably kinder to Corbyn than many – but will also find similarities, with the shadow chancellor John McDonnell emerging from both books as an unsung hero increasingly frustrated when his advice isn't heeded. And in both, a hole emerges where the leader should be.
'Like an Armando Iannucci rewrite of Andrew Rawnsley ... unquestionably the political book of the year' Tim Shipman, author of All Out War Left Out is the first full account of Labour's recent transformation and historic defeat. From the peak of Jeremy Corbyn's popularity and the shock hung parliament of 2017 to Labour's humbling in 2019 and the election of Keir Starmer, Left Out draws on unrivalled access throughout the party and to both leaders' inner circles to provide a blistering narrative expose of the Labour Party during one of the most tumultuous and significant episodes in its history. It reveals a party riven by factionalism and at war over ideology, then incapacitated by crisis and indecision. From the plotting of the break-away Independent Group to the inaction and despair over accusations of anti-Semitism, from complaints of sexual harassment and bullying to foiled coups and furious disagreements over Brexit, the reader is in the room as tempers fray and tensions boil over, as sworn enemies forge unlikely alliances and lifelong friendships are tested to breaking-point. At the heart of the book is Corbyn himself, a man whose like had never been seen at the top of British politics - and is unlikely to ever be seen again. Heroised for his principles by some, derided as an idealist by others, the loyalty and hatred he inspired changed not only the party but the nation. Intimately drawn and brilliantly told, Left Out is the revelatory inside account of how Labour became the party it is today and of the greatest experiment seen in British politics for a generation. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I did manage to finish it. It's somewhat more interesting for having the inside story, from insiders, on how things happened.
For example after the a former KGB spy turned MI6 informant and his daughter were found poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury in 2018, Theresa May the Prime Minister announced the expulsion of twenty-three Russian diplomats from Britain in retaliation. Jeremy Corbyn criticised the government for cuts to the diplomatic service, and asked if samples had been sent to Russia for testing. Seamus Milne, his communications chief, briefed the press further and compared it to the false Weapons of Mass Destruction story in the lead-up to the Iraq War. The reaction in John McDonnell's office (the Shadow Chancellor) :
"James Mills, the Shadow Chancellor's spin Doctor, was so furious that he rose from his chair and kicked a bin across the room. Colleagues eyed him uneasily. 'That's fucking going to cost us the election!' Mills shouted. 'That's fucking stupid. Who the fuck does stuff like that.?'
It's also interesting to hear about what was going on with the anti-Semitism scandals. His aides would apparently try to get Corbyn to compromise more with the Jewish Board of Deputies, but as one of his aides is quoted as saying,
"Often, we would get a sense... he was engaging with the issue better and then he'd go back and talk to people, mainly old Jewish Trotskyists in his constituency or elsewhere, who'd tell him," There's no problem. This is all capitulation to Zionism. "(p. 109)
The book's also interesting on Brexit. One Euroskeptic Labour Shadow Cabinet member is quoted as saying,
"We want the same rights in the labour market as we've got already? What the fuck does that mean? People voted against Europe because they think work is shit. LOTO [the Leader of the Opposition's Office] didn't have the capacity to understand what was happening in held-back areas. "(p. 69)
There's a nice vignette featuring the old school trade union guy Len McCluskey, at the otherwise damp squib that was the Labour Live event (renamed "JezFest" by the press):
"Acts dealt the bum hand of playing early, like the original Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock and Levi Roots, the inventor of Reggae Reggae Sauce, played to crowds that were only two deep. For long stretches of the afternoon it was Unite's ice-cream van, whose chimes played 'The Red Flag' and whose Mr Whippy machine was manned by McCluskey himself, which drew the biggest crowd." (p. 93) (