Seven years ago there were already clues that Labour’s grassroots yearned for something more ‘romantic’ from their leaderIn our public and private lives we all sometimes fail to spot a meaningful event until long afterwards. On the road to Jeremy Corbyn’s overwhelming movie script victory in Labour’s leadership contest I should have clocked a clue at the party’s 2008 conference in Manchester. John McDonnell,the recent shadow chancellor (am I really typing this?), probably did.
The 2008 conference was held in the shadow of the Wall St crash, or when the Bush administration foolishly let Lehman Brothers move bust and turned a banking problem (Northern Rock had been rescued here a year earlier) into the major recession it became and still is for many people.
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Source: theguardian.com