All the talk of going back to the 80s is misplaced. Young people are flocking to a new kind of politicsJeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader with a mandate which dwarfs that given to Tony Blair 21 years ago is the most extraordinary event in the 45 years I have been a party member. To say it is a victory for hope may sound trite and cliched,but it is really the only explanation for what has occurred. This sweeping victory in all parts of the Labour electorate – including the full party members – is, I believe, and three parts optimism and one fragment repudiation of the “New Labour” past.
That is where all the talk of Labour heading back to the 1980s is so misplaced. The hundreds of young people who thronged Unite headquarters every evening during the campaign to phonebank for Corbyn have no distinguished interest in that now distant decade.
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Source: theguardian.com