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Corbyn said only a few years ago: "No nuclear power, decommission the stations we've got". Not surprising he didn't go down too well in an area so tied up with the nuclear industry

Left wing Labour columnist Kevin Maguire in left wing Labour newspaper:

The two words which best describe why devastated Labour humiliatingly lost a Northern stronghold are “Jeremy” and “Corbyn”.

His name cropped up again and again on doorsteps in now blue not red Copeland, the Labour leader a major vote loser for his party in Cumbria.

A crushing Parliamentary by-election defeat cannot fairly be pinned on one person but Corbyn was the albatross around Labour's neck.

Even disciples of the battered leader, a decent man with honest politics, were shaken to discover on doorsteps the depth of hostility fuelled by faltering performances, Labour infighting, unrelenting media criticism.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...iating-9908171

But I guess its Blair who is squarely to blame