The Edinburgh Radical Review

Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn.  It is in the ranks of those most bitterly resisting change, not leading the progressive forward charge, that Jeremy Corbyn has ever been foremost. He is a Labour leader of the past, not the future.  The Labour leader revels in raging against the establishment, exults in playing the revolutionary, but in truth there is more of the reactionary than the radical in Jeremy Corbyn. A Bennite without Tony Benn’s effortless charm, a disciple of Michael Foot without Foot’s wit or intelligence, Corbyn lacks even the decency to confine himself to the 1980s. Instead, for the benefit of those who missed the show first-time round, he’s determined to stage a re-enactment. But regardless of whether this election ends up resembling more 1983 or 1987, Mr Corbyn has certainly proven himself to be no harbinger of the future. He is instead little more than the shadow of a discredited past. With dogmatism seldom being the bed-fellow of origi