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Corbyn’s rise: Shock and horror for the bully boys, joy for everyone else
The Parliamentary Labour Party has been out of touch for years, but now the people have a voice again, writes MARTIN MAYER

JEREMY CORBYN’S extraordinary surge in the Labour leadership race has caused shock and panic in the media and has generated denunciation and condemnation from the Labour hierarchy and across the wider “political class.”

New Labour is already crying foul and challenging the electoral process itself — the very one member, one vote ballot that the right wing has been demanding for years.

It seems as if the entire political class — the media, the Establishment, big business, the leaders in our country — is of the opinion that a Corbyn victory would be a disaster for the Labour Party and that Labour would be “unelectable” in 2020, or maybe destroyed altogether.

  • Martin Mayer is a Unite Labour NEC member and chair of United Left.
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