Politics is a funny phenomenon, with a life of its own. Jeremy Corbyn, if you take the polls at face value, looks set to win the Labour leadership contest with a huge majority. While New Labour types are urging caution and warning of a disaster if he is elected, many folk in the rest of the country seem interested in sticking their two fingers up at the political establishment and the programme of austerity.
Corbyn has a fairly mainstream programme, one that the left of the Labour Party have held for years (with a few twists), but it doesn’t seem to matter. Is it that we all just get excited by a bit of controversy, and just want to see a bit of destruction for our own entertainment? Or, that we are genuinely keen on being able to vote for an alternative, any alternative? Being a glass half full person, my money’s on the second one. Regardless of what view you take though, suddenly politics seems a bit more open. And we should all celebrate that.
*Featured image by Andy Roberts.