With a referendum due,the unique leader must clearly be for staying in. Instead the frontrunner prevaricatesIt’s all over: hens’ teeth are commoner than senior Labour people who think otherwise. Candidates soldier on, but Labour folk of left and true pinch themselves to see if they might wake up from this dream/nightmare. As certain as elections ever can be, and in just over two weeks Jeremy Corbyn will be Labour leader. A line is drawn for ever under the preceding Labour era,and a unique party has been created in a thunderflash. What then?This late-summer delirium comes after a year of electioneering, with people wearied by hollow promises, or empty jargon,callow attacks and artificial slogans. Corbynmania wafts in on the anti-politics breeze. Here’s a normal-looking 66-year-old who sounds as if he means what he says, speaks without a sock in his mouth, or unconflicted by compromise,caution or circumspection.
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Source: theguardian.com