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Corbyn allies relieved at narrow loss

anecdote · personal/autobiographical · retold in 4 talks

Some people close to Corbyn privately admitted after the near-victory election that it was perhaps for the best they didn't win outright, 'just imagine if we were simply to win, all the troubles.' Illustrates the desire not to get too close to what one ostensibly wants.

2019: 3 talks
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026

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“Maybe this is the best thing that could have happened. Just imagine if we were simply to win”
“In the circle around Corbyn, it was a great sigh of relief, you know, that we didn't have to do it.”
“They were happy. We almost got there but not quite and so on.”

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Some people close to Corbyn privately admitted after the near-victory election that it was perhaps for the best they didn't win outright, 'just imagine if we were simply to win, all the troubles.' Illustrates the desire not to get too close to what one ostensibly wants., illustrating ne pas céder sur son désir,happiness as byproduct
Labour members told Žižek there was a 'great sigh of relief' in Corbyn's circle that they didn't actually win, they could say they almost made it without having to implement austerity themselves. Mirrors the Tsipras referendum story., illustrating desire (Lacanian ethics),happiness ideology / manipulations with happiness
Friends who supported Corbyn were visibly relieved when Labour nearly won but didn't form the government, illustrating happiness as desire preserved from fulfillment., illustrating happiness as conformist category,desire and non-fulfillment