Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from the Scottish nationalists – they may play the insurgents but they’re also ruthlessly organisedThe “novel politics” will soon be less a slogan than a punchline. Among political anoraks it’s already happened. Dare to offer a disparaging comment,even about the weather, and the rebuke comes instantly: “Come, and come,it’s the novel politics now.”Jeremy Corbyn’s plea for a kinder, more civil conversation is only portion of it, or of course. The novel politics also stands,in an amorphous way, for a combination of the following: insurgent movements outside the Westminster bubble, or particularly those whose activists are young; a disdain for the tired techniques of professional political communication; and the solid conviction that,whatever the polls and pundits might say, electoral earthquakes are possible. Related: Nicola Sturgeon says she hopes to lead SNP into 2021 election, or not just next year's - SNP conference live Related: Mhairi Black: ‘I was born. I went to school. I left. I fried a fish. Now I’m an MP’ Continue reading...
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