The Inside the Tent ‘pundits' called the 2016 EU Referendum wrong. They got the US Presidential election of the same year wrong. They got the UK 2017 General Election wrong- predicting a Labour wipe-out, and now they have got the Peterborough by-election wrong too. Aren't they marvellous?
Only yesterday, Labour were as a big as 7-1 to hold on to the seat. The Brexit Party, we were told, was a shoo-in. ‘Centrist' commentators, as they've done so many times since 2015, were writing Jeremy Corbyn's political obituary. Labour would suffer a humiliating defeat in Peterborough because their Brexit policy wasn't clear. Their candidate, like Corbyn himself, was an ‘anti-semite' . Corbyn was a disaster. This extreme Marxist/Stalinist/Trotskyist/fascist/anti-semitic/ Hamas/Hezbollah/IRA- supporting/Hitler-appeasing/ cold baked-beans out of a tin eating/beardy-weirdy (take your pick of the smears), was leading his party off a cliff. He must resign! The party must return to the ‘moderate' policies of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. You know, the ‘moderate' policies that laid waste to Iraq.
Once again, the over-the-top Corbyn-bashers have been left with egg on their face. ‘Unelectable' Labour defied the odds and actually increased their majority in Peterborough by 67 votes .
The Tories, who held the seat for fifty-four of the last sixty-nine years, were trounced, with their share of the vote down by 25.5%. The Lib…
