When you don’t actually live in a place, you can’t really gauge what’s actually going on.

Here in NZ, Corbyn is being reported as a little-known, far left nutter who is gathering up momentum via rent-a-crowd to take the leadership of the Labour Party.

Corbyn has had some great publicity here due to Blair formally trashing him – his profile has been raised immeasurably by that. In his piece, Blair insults Michael Foot but changes the language to make it also appear that he is paying him respect. He is actually saying “this bloke is worse than Michael Foot!”.

I’m not sure what happened to Blair. He may have some history with Corbyn, who knows.

As Billy Bragg points out, Corbyn is as establishment as it gets. He’s been a North London MP for more than 30 years. It’s weird that he is being portrayed as a left wing chancer from nowhere who is trying to smash thie state. He knows the system, he is part of the system.

But is he genuinely coming across well where it counts – in the UK? Can you see him leaning over the despatch box and tying Cameron up in … Continue reading Is Corbyn going to win?