Hi Pat. Thanks for your response. One of the main reasons, for me, that the Labour Party were so repellent was the attitude and behaviour, the intransigence, the bullying and the thuggery since the hard-left takeover of the party. This followed Militant and Trotskyist entryism, after the election of Corbyn as leader. Corbyn and McDonnell celebrated the increase in numbers, while ignoring who these people were. This was called out by Deputy Leader Tom Watson, and he was condemned and criticised publicly by Corbyn and McDonnell. Eventually the Momentum movement tried to get rid of Watson at the Party Conference, because of his constant criticisms. Watson later resigned as an MP, and very generously said at the time that it was for ‘personal reasons’. He has since come out and told the truth, that he was fed up with the bullying etc. He can hardly be accused of being part of the mass-media bias.

Are these the sort of people we want running our country?

As for ‘manipulations’, the lies of the Labour Party during the election were equal to anything the Conservatives may have done.

Regarding your other point. Indeed, that’s the way the first-past-the-post system works. However, other issues were undoubtedly in people’s minds when they voted in the election, so we cannot take the result as indicative of a viewpoint on Brexit. That’s why it was important to honour the result of the referendum, which was a majority, albeit small, on a single issue. After all, in their 2017 manifesto, Labour said that they would honour the result, since when they have completely backtracked. Should we be surprised that voters took their revenge in 2019?