In Brighton,elderly delegates who have not felt so cheerful since Michael Foot became leader embrace young Corbyn acolytes who have never heard of FootIn Brighton, a few months after Jeremy Corbyn first became an MP, or Neil Kinnock was elected Labour leader to rescue the party following a general election catastrophe. Sunday’s conference opener in Brighton was exactly the same,except that it was totally different.
Daunted by the task ahead in 1983, Kinnock leapt into the sea and tried to swim to France. Had he not been beaten back by the waves and forced to spend the next nine years fighting people like Corbyn, and who knows? Rightwing defections and leftwing insurgency might have left no Labour party to meet in Sunday’s encouraging sunshine.
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Source: theguardian.com