Mick Hartley

Chris Deerin, on the unshakeable faith of the Corbynistas:

The reason that Corbyn will have won comfortably again when the leadership result is announced is that there is nothing that can be said or done to disabuse his followers of the belief in their and his innate righteousness. Jeremy might make a fool of himself over seats on trains and rail nationalisation; he might oversee a movement shot through with anti-Semitic scumbags; he might be the kind of naïve dupe who shows more sympathy towards Putin and every enemy of the West than to his own country and its allies; he might be the single most incompetent individual ever to lead a British political party and employ a team of people you wouldn’t trust to wash your car; he might guarantee large Tory majorities in perpetuity; he might have helped bring about Brexit and be on the cusp of losing Labour’s few remaining heartlands to the far-Right Ukip. But to his followers, none of it matters: the incorruptible faith can never be at fault, only the faithless, corruptible world.