The 1%, and its news media won't ever allow a left wing government to be elected into office.

The moment Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour Party leader- politically, he was a dead man walking.

Blairites, political careerists, a corporate political news media; and Israel's right-wing ruling class wanted him not only gone but discredited.

The corporate news media began the most comprehensive character assassination campaign in modern history for a domestic political leader. Corbyn was portrayed as a revolutionary, a friend to terrorists, a communist and an antisemite who refused to wear a tie at official functions.

The establishment was scared shitless- that a Corbyn government could irrevocably alter Britain and its foreign affairs, by inspiring voters to believe again in socialism.

The Blairite's were terrified a successful Corbyn government would make socialist politics palatable again to millions of working-class and middle-class voters. Had the Labour Party, under a Corbyn leadership come to power; It would have been the beginning of the end for the 1% absolute societal and economic dominance.

Neoliberalism at home and abroad was threatened by what Corbyn represented. He was a man who couldn't be bought off, unlike much of the left who is easily swayed by the entitled presenting them personal power and wealth enhancement.

So, Corbyn was destroyed to preserve the status quo.

Jeremy Corbyn, more times than not, assisted the coup plotters in their destruction of him by not being as ruthless as them. But it doesn't excuse what happened. Corbyn's downfall and the vilification of the politics, he promoted, destroyed any hope that a better and more equal society was possible under a neoliberal system.

Neoliberalism learned from mid-20th-century capitalism that it must resist all efforts to be tamed and uses various stratagems to prevent its wealthiest citizens from paying comprehensive taxes to maintain a civilised society. It will have no bridle and thus the wealthiest in society foment culture wars through influencers and a punditry class malignantly corrupted. The 1% know taxation of wealth leads to democracy, where all citizens matter, not only its top income earners.

At the beginning of Corbyn's leadership, my dad was at the zenith of his popularity with editors and producers from political corporate news media platforms. Most of what was pitched was published by them. He was frequently invited to comment on television news programs.

By the time my dad's last book was published in the autumn of 2017, the bloom had gone off his brand due to his ardent support for Jeremy Corbyn.

Unlike- during the launch of Harry's Last Stand in 2014, Don't Let My Past Be Your Future was largely ignored by the mainstream news media. Much of the political coverage for my dad's last book was from university newspapers, the Morning Star, and trade union newsletters. It was apparent that the neoliberal news media outlets liked to give positive coverage to my Dad during times when there was no hope in hell of his 1945 socialist Labour politics coming to fruition. Corbyn as Labour Party leader, changed that dynamic. They didn't want any part in facilitating a political movement in Britain that had a chance of transforming the nation into a society fundamentally fairer than the one they lorded over.

In 2018 during the last months of my dad's life, the personal attacks against Corbyn were becoming more persistent and vile. There was a cadre of centrists and Blairites that spent a great deal of time attacking my father's Twitter feed because he supported Corbyn.

I have no doubt that had my father lived a few more years, he would have been smeared by false and, libellous claims of antisemitism. It was a rabid McCarthyism that persists to this day against Corbyn, the left wing and now because of Israel’s genocide in Gaza anyone who speaks up for the human rights of Palestinians.

In February 2019, I returned to London for my father's public memorial to commemorate his efforts to not make his past our future. It was unsettling to witness the irrational hate against Corbyn unleashed by the Blairites was now common in people, I knew and believed had more sense.

I had a beer with people I was acquainted with in publishing. They told me they were outraged that Corbyn would be speaking at my father's memorial because "Jeremy was a man of such hate." It was absurd and infuriating because, in so many ways, Jeremy Corbyn epitomised what my dad wanted for Britain. A country where everyone was treated with dignity and led a purposeful, fruitful life.

At a pub after my father's memorial, some journalists with less politeness had a go at Corbyn; I said they were wrong. But my defence of Corbyn was tepid. I thought, why bother; the Kool-Aid was drunk. Five years later, things are worse because there is an endless supply of Kool-Aid for those who want to drink it. It has always been about destroying something more than Corbyn. It was always about ensuring the wealth of this planet is held in the hands of plutocrats, billionaires and the lackeys who strangle people's aspirations for a better way of doing government.

None of the people who helped bring Corbyn down will ever have a moment of regret- for what they did to Britain. They don't need self-reflection because they are primarily driven by personal ambitions.

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