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I voted for Corbyn last year, as did a lot of people I know. Included are my parents, who are neither metropolitan not elite, but northern small-town dwellers who were able to vote due through union membership. They had been distanced from Labour by the Iraq War and the steady Blair/Brown move towards the neoliberal consensus.
Fair enough, Corbyn isn't a great leader, or even the leader most on the Labour left would ideally have.
But there isn't another option, Angela Eagle and Owen Smith are just a step back to what no-one really wants Labour to be, and they're like broken fucking records just repeating the same mantras about Corbyn being unelectable, or having failed the Remain campaign, neither of which stand up to scrutiny.
Whatever happens, launching a coup was a fucking stupid, selfish and damaging idea which has fucked all of Labour at the worst possible time - another reason not to vote for someone who helped launch or supported it.