The obvious choice of subject for my blog entry today is the election of Jeremy Corbyn as labour leader, but truth be told I don’t know what to write about it. Of course, on one hand I’m ecstatic: I thoroughly agree with most of Corbyn’s views. At last we have someone unafraid to stand up to the tories and their lies; unafraid to speak up for the downtrodden and disenfranchised; unafraid to call the bullshit of austerity what it is – merely a cover for making unfairness and selfishness permanent. Yet I just worry about how much he’ll be heard: the right will try to shout him down and call him a socialist (as if it is an insult); they will try to belittle him and call his politics outdated. Already the Mail has vehemently attacked him; the tories claim to be relishing the opportunity to ‘discredit socialism once and for all’, too dim to realise that Corbyn has more humanity and compassion in his little toe than in the entire tory party. Amid this onslaught, I’m not sure Corbyn could ever be elected. Could he ever become Prime Minister, or have we all become irredeemably selfish thatcherites, too wedded to neoliberalism even to listen to him?