Now Corbyn! What’s up with Europe’s left!

Jeremy Corbin likely British Labour Party leader

Jeremy Corbyn: Likely Labour Party leader and possible British Prime Minister

Young writer and political activist Owen Jones

by Kumar David-September 5, 2015, 7:48 pm 

Britain is stunned that a bearded septuagenarian is front runner for Labour Party leadership all because the man had principles and stuck with them through a 32 year parliamentary career. How shocking! Isn’t party leadership reserved for hypocrites like teflon Blair, vulpine Gordon and hither-and-thither Miliband? Labour youth and rank and file are trekking back; membership has risen by 80,000 since the last election and 150,000 additional supporters have registered. About 550,000 are now eligible to vote in the leadership contest. The party machine is on a witch-hunt to weed out pro-Corbyn applicants; the attack by the rightwing press and the rightwing of the Labour Party is so heated that predictions are difficult. Nevertheless, when the 12 September deadline is crossed the stunning feat of a principled leader at the helm of the Labour party may have come to pass.

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