These are exciting exhilarating times. The extraordinary becomes commonplace. Miracles are routine. The Labour collapse in Scotland was on a scale unprecedented in centuries of British history. The shifts of loyalties were mountainous. Labour majorities of over 20,000 were transmuted into majorities of more than 10,000 for the SNP.
The Leadership Election stunned by humbling the mighty and exalting the meek. Time to reboot my crystal ball. Both candidates for Leader and Deputy that I nominated in the Labour Leadership Election came last!
Jeremy’s elevation has jump-started the shell-shocked and comatose party into fresh life. The Corbyn victory has left the Tories more demented than ever in their maniacal mind-numbing soundbite that irritates like toothache and may surpass the vacuous imbecility of the 'long-term economic strategy' and 'hard-working families.' Will they soon warn that Corbyn's victory will usher in a plague of boils, world famine and the annihilation of the human race?
The scale of the victory has smothered all the objections and excuses that were being incubated beforehand. A majority in all three sectors kills all suggestions of influence by infiltrators or faulty administration. New Politics has arrived. No longer can any voter say that all parties are the same. Labour with Corbyn in place is distinctive, idealistic, gritty and armed with messages of forceful clarity and freshly minted ideals.
Shadow cabinet members who threatened to resign if Corbyn was elected thought it would discourage votes for him. Now they are trapped, hoist by their own petards and appear mean-spirited
Corbyn campaigned brilliantly with charm and the common touch. The other three candidates disappointed as colourless and lacking novelty. Only in the last days did they find their mojos
Corbyn must be given the support his majority deserves. If it does not work out, Labour will not go into another election with a leader who is less popular than the party as we did in 2015, 2010 and 1983. The party fell in love with a principled, authentic partisan of Classic Labour. They judged him to be free of the trappings of the now degraded politics of the past 20 years. The country might also be convinced with new popularity for unconvential politicians who break all the rules.
The way ahead for the Parliamentary Labour Party LP is ONE Leader (No quibbling or back biting), ONE Party (No splits), ONE Enemy, (This awful Government).
Good luck, Comrade!
Ein Corbyn, ein partei...
Posted by: WHS | October 20, 2015 at 08:00 PM
This is, perhaps, the single biggest political event of my adult life. This gives us a chance at a decent country and maybe the ripples could grow, even crossing the ocean. Great blog post!
Posted by: stuart mcc | September 13, 2015 at 11:10 PM
Well they didn't see that coming haha. The time will come for a well educated well informed populace and a generation that has new advantages. That they want to keep playing the control through fear and emotional manipulation card shows how the upper class has never been weaker it seems to me.
If Corbyn gets the right people around him he could make the complacent political establishment look very silly.
At the very least we now have an opposition which is a massive improvement.
I don't think the Labour party has anything to fear from the Tory dominated establishment. How long have we had some semblance of democracy unencumbered by massive world wars? Its inevitable some steps in the right direction will occur.
Posted by: Ad | September 13, 2015 at 10:25 PM
Thanks Huw. The Tory response was genuinely infantile. Another mantra repeated by all of them.
Best
Paul
Posted by: Paul Flynn | September 13, 2015 at 08:47 PM
Many thanks Alyson. He deserves our full support to make it work. Fingers crossed.
Best,
Paul
Posted by: Paul Flynn | September 13, 2015 at 08:45 PM
Welcome the 'common touch'. the grit of the fight for equality and the courage to fight for peace . I do believe that he learned so many lessons from you x
Posted by: alyson cottrell | September 13, 2015 at 07:15 PM
Absolutely ecstatic with this result. I look forward to the years ahead now with Corbyn. Gentleman who says it as it is, but with a fair and rational approach. Welcome to a new era. The tories can go off in dismay now.
Posted by: Opinionatedman1 | September 13, 2015 at 05:44 PM
Your party now has the catalyst that could transform our government.
Just hope it doesn't get out of control
Posted by: Jerym eedy | September 13, 2015 at 01:37 PM
From his performance so far he seems like the perfect weapon against juvenile incompetent tory government.
They seem to think so too, therefore more keen to attack a purely imaginary version of him than what he actually is.
Posted by: HuwOS | September 13, 2015 at 01:33 PM