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I hope so too, and I like that Corbyn has brought out a bit of passion in the left. The point I was trying to make is that I think the mechanics of uniting behind unifying a country and abolishing apartheid (ie. It's just so obviously a good thing) may be a little more straightforward than trying to fight the beige middle ground that the majority of UK politics seems to occupy.
Hundreds of thousands of people united against the war in Iraq and fuck all good it did.
The last election was a massive kick in the bollocks for any labour voter, myself included, but the fact Labour lost so many votes to UKIP just seem to confirm (to me at least) that we're an increasingly insular, inward-looking society at many levels. We don't like the Poles, refugees and, heaven forfend, economic migrants, that tit Farage made it far worse.
Hopefully a Corbyn leadership win will give Labour and the electorate the kick in the arse it needs, maybe they'll pick up some of the disaffected Lib Dem vote. I have my doubts, though. But at least he's not another Eton/Oxbridge cutout politician, the same across the board just with a different coloured tie.
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Slight disappointment that you should read the above as comparing Mandela to Corbyn. The point is not about personalities or comparisons, it's about the mechanics of people uniting over an idea...
In the 2015 election 11,334,576 people voted Conservative. In the most disproportional UK election to date, millions voted for smaller parties only to see their efforts result in single-digit representation, and a majority government returned to Parliament on less than 37% of the vote and with the support of just 24% of the electorate.
To most people the Tories suck, austerity sucks, the failed neoliberal experiment sucks, landlordism sucks, student debt sucks and government by arrogant posh boys sucks.
Corbyn seems to have ignited the hopes of the many who feel powerless, disenfranchised, deserted by the Labour party ...
It may go nowhere but I'm hoping it's the start of something new and different.