Cross-posted with Dave there (I'm a slow typist and I review like buggery).

You are right about perceptions, Robo. But you have to consider who it is that manipulates the agenda and who twists and spins the facts in order to manipulate those perceptions. The overriding victory of this campaign belongs to the right, who got almost all the media on board for the purpose of demonising Corbyn. As a result, a decent and fair future agenda was lost and Corbyn and his allies will have to go. I'm a big supporter, and it grieves me to say that, but the mass media have comprehensively won the fight to bamboozle a politically-illiterate electorate (you should have seen the incessant BBC cheap-telly vox pops we've endured for six weeks...)