Look back to December when May humiliated Britain by delaying the meaningful Brexit vote at the last moment because she knew she was going to lose it.
Remember the howls of anguish from the Right who criticised Corbyn for not calling a vote of no confidence in May. Not to mention the anti-Corbyn speeches and editorials, the furious Twitter tirades, the accusations of incompetence, the calls for him to resign, and the torrents of online abuse?
At the time the parliamentary arithmetic simply didn't add up because the self-serving Tories would never vote against their own government no matter how unprecedented the incompetence, and because the DUP would definitely not be voting to kill their golden goose.
Then, in the wake of this week’s unprecedented 230 vote defeat of May's Brexit proposals Corbyn finally calls the no confidence vote.
He was still never going to win it because nothing had changed and the parliamentary arithmetic still didn't add up. But even though he was never going to win, it was pretty clear why Corbyn couldn't really avoid putting forward a no confidence motion after the biggest government defeat in modern parliamentary history. Given the inevitability that the motion still wouldn't pass, the only aim was to prove that 300+ selfish Tories and cynical DUP bigots have prioritised their own narrow interests above the interests of the nation as a whole.
Look at the reaction of the Right now: Anti-Corbyn speeches and editorials, furious Twitter tirades, accusations of incompetence, calls for him to resign, and torrents of online abuse.
Their reaction to him doing what they wanted him to do is identical to their reaction to him not doing what they wanted him to!
These people are so consumed with ideological hatred for Corbyn and his democratic socialist agenda (end Tory austerity dogma, reverse Tory wage repression, investment instead of endless cuts, clamp down on tax-dodging, nationalise vital national infrastructure and services...) that they've rendered themselves incapable of intelligent analysis. So sad.