The Birth of a New Politics? By Matt Carr
CAN SANDERS FOLLOW CORBYN'S LEAD?
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Watching yesterday’s stunning victory for Jeremy Corbyn unfold, I really had to resist the urge to pinch myself, and a voice continually went through my head saying that this can’t be happening. There was so much about it that was unreal. Firstly, there was the barely-believable fact that the most consistently and passionately left-wing MP of his generation had been elected Leader of the Labour Party, with the support of a grassroots campaign that had emerged seemingly out of nowhere.
When Corbyn was first nominated, he was seen by his opponents both inside and outside the party as a joke candidate who would provide the illusion of democratic debate and renewal. As his campaign began to gather momentum, a panic-stricken Labour establishment threw everything it had at him. A succession of Blairite ‘big beasts’, including the Great Man himself, queued up to describe him as an unelectable retrograde throwback; as a terrorist fellow-traveller; a left-wing Donald Trump supported by ‘Trots'; a utopian dreamer. These attacks only made Corbyn more popular.
When it became clear that he might win, the media joined in the attacks. Every single national newspaper opposed him and attacked him. Columnist after columnist subjected him to snide, vicious and often ridiculous attacks.
Despite all this, Corbynism continued to grow exponentially, and yesterday Corybyn shattered his opponents and left them stupefied and seething, all fake smiles, pursed lips and slow handclaps, as he thanked and praised them and outlined a new agenda that most of them could barely believe that they were hearing....
CONGRATULATIONS, MR. CORBYN!
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