A cult of Corbynistas?
Corbyn has triumphed, endearingly so, over Establishment odds. MPs with the closest links to the Blairite status quo have had their chance and failed. Though the movement against Corbyn spanned from stalwarts such as Tristram Hunt to more sideways characters such as Ed Miliband, it was fundamentally an attempt to pull Labour somewhere a tad closer to the range of ideas that lost the leadership only last year . A campaign for Owen Smith, which held all the cards in the context of factual observation, but almost none in terms of emotional clout, lost against passion, and a desire for that consistently appealing brand of ‘change’, ‘honest politics’, and so on. Corbyn could have walked on stage at the last debate, argued for nothing but the nationalisation of the Great British Bake Off for almost an hour, and he would have still won doubtless. He would have won because his niche, nascent cult of personality already exists in Labour. It’s the kind that might indiscriminately boo Owen Smit