subvert47
I don't fight, I run away
Sure, Labour were doing relatively OK in the polls while the Tories were also deeply unpopular, with an incumbent PM who was almost universally hated both by her own party and by most Tory voters. Then Johnson became party leader - OK, that was in the summer of 2019, but it was still well before the election - and given his support among the hardcore Brexit base in the Tory shires, Labour's fate was sealed at that point. Corbyn could have stepped down and let someone else lead the party into the next election, and even if that would still probably have resulted in a defeat, it would almost certainly have been a less crushing one - bear in mind that Corbyn's personal approval at one point reached -60%, the lowest of any UK party leader ever - and would surely have helped some part of the Corbynist project be salvaged.
And come on, Corbyn was useless on both Brexit and anti-Semitism.
Yes, Corbyn stepping down would have been a cunning plan.
On Brexit: The Tory shires were a given anyway. It was the constituencies up here in the Red Wall that Brexit took away. I know Labour supporters who, even if they couldn't bring themselves to vote for Boris,, actually voted for Farage instead because of Brexit.
Corbyn was made useless on Brexit. He was right first time when he supported Article 50. But the bulk of the party got drawn into the People's Vote thing. So we got the neither Brexit nor Remain non-strategy. Which actually made sense, except that no one at all was interested in it.
The anti-semitism thing was 95% bollocks. The trouble was the 5%. But notice that neither the leadership, nor the PLP right, nor the media gives a shit about the 5% when it comes to racism and transphobia in the party. It was always just a stick to beat Corbyn with.