To everyone’s huge surprise, Jeremy Corbyn has come out as being quite a hard-line Eurosceptic, despite his tireless campaigning last year during the referendum.
He has also further cemented his party’s newfound respect for immigration restriction, attacking the importing of cheap labour from abroad. Whether any of this makes any impact on his legion of supporters, who seem to project their own vision of what he should be onto reality, I don’t know; the Labour coalition already seems so incoherent but then I’ve given up trying to understand how politics work; it’s like there’s been a writer’s strike up in heaven and nothing makes sense anymore. I suspect Corbynmania mainly comes down to the Conservatives losing their USP – being sensible about the economy – as Hugo Rifkind pointed out a few weeks back.
As long as there is a strong suspicion that the Tories are actually wildly out of their depth – and are dragging us into the greatest act of national self-harm since the Xhosas followed a prophetess’s clever
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