Glastonbury, which opens on Wednesday, will air Oh Jeremy Corbyn: the Big Lie, a documentary — a conspiracy theory — that puts the failure of Corbynism at the door of knaves. (Corbyn was a surprise hit at Glastonbury in 2017, and no one was more surprised than he). That voters didn’t like him is too simplistic for his acolytes, who do not understand why so many working-class voters were repelled by him. Rather than search for the cause, they plead conspiracy.
After the Great War, Germany invented a Stab in the Back myth to explain its failure to itself. The Corbynites have one too: this is the Big Lie.
