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Ladataan... This Land: The Story of a MovementTekijä: Owen Jones
   Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.  comsat38 | Nov 1, 2020 | 
 [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.
The No.1 bestselling author of Chavs and The Establishment returns with an urgent, revelatory account of where the Left - and Britain - goes next On 12th December 2019, the Left died. That at least was the view of much of Britain's media and political establishment, who saw the electoral defeat of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party as the damning repudiation of everything it stood for. Yet, just over four years previously, the election of Corbyn as Labour leader seemed like a sea-change in politics: reanimating not just a party in apparently terminal decline but a country adrift, with a transformative vision based on a more just, more equal society and economy. In this revelatory new book, Owen Jones explores how these ideas took hold, how they promised to change the nature of British politics - and how everything then went profoundly, catastrophically wrong. Why did the Left fail so badly? Where, in this most critical of times, does that failure leave its values and ideas? Where does it leave Britain itself? Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Jones has previously written that the Establishment knows how to debunk and defame any Labour leader who shows weakness, or dithers over vital issues. I am not sure if Jones would agree but it does seem now that Corbyn fed to his enemies the ammunition they needed to wound him with. That said, the book is well written, in a clear and open style, that never allows issues to become entangled in the telling. The future looks very uncertain for UK politics, even leaving out of consideration the pandemic. (