There are establishment red lines - unconditional support for US foreign policy, respect for the freedom of international capital, support for Trident and the nuclear "deterrence". Any threats to these red lines will involve the full force of the media against many such leaders or policies and that includes the Guardian and the "impartial" BBC. The rebellion of the bond vigilantes against the so-called mini-budget shows the instant and crushing power they have if they don't get their way policy-wise. Anyone who steps outside of these "norms" can expect unremitting and relentless attacks right across the media. Jeremy never stood a chance despite being no more radical than say Swedish or Norwegian social democrats. But despite all that he got a majority of the English U65 vote.
2017 Election
Tories 13,636,684
Labour 12,877,918
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/06/22/jeremy-corbyn-claims-mi5-mi6-deliberately-undermined-leadership/
Jeremy Corbyn has alleged that he was “deliberately” undermined by MI5 and MI6 after meetings with the security services during his time as Labour leader.
Mr Corbyn, who led the party between 2015 and 2020, also claimed the military gave him a “warning” over his opposition to airstrikes in Syria in 2015.
The former leader of the opposition had refused to back the UK’s Trident nuclear deterrent during his tenure and did not directly condemn Moscow after the Salisbury poisoning in 2018.
In the September of that year, he was reportedly “summoned” by Andrew Parker, the then director-general of MI5, for a “facts of life” talk in light of controversy surrounding his policy positions.
Two months later, The Telegraph learned he had also met Alex Younger, the then head of MI6, in anticipation of a snap election triggered by the collapse of Brexit talks.
‘Leaked in a way to undermine’
A senior security source said at the time that Mr Corbyn had received an in-depth briefing about the work of MI6 where it was stressed to him that the organisation does not pursue its own agenda.
But in an interview on Wednesday with the Declassified UK website – which describes itself as challenging the “secret state” – Mr Corbyn, 73, accused the security services of “leaking” details of the exchanges.
He said: “I instructed my office that this meeting had to be treated as completely confidential. And it was. It was leaked by them and it was leaked in a way to undermine. That somehow or other I’d been summoned and given a dressing down.
“That was not the nature of the meeting at all. They acknowledged I had a different view from themselves and the Government and the meetings were… pretty frank. Were they aggressive? No. It was an intelligent discussion.
“Obviously it was all recorded. Obviously it was all then leaked out as a way to be deliberately undermining of me.”