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Jeremy Corbyn: The Election Maverick.

  • Writer: Connor Mew
    Connor Mew
  • Jun 10, 2017
  • 2 min read

Gasps, cries, yells, sighs, swearing, rolled-eyes and a jaded morning journey to work on a Friday. The snap election brought out the best of the British spectrum of emotions. Never in parliamentary history have we seen such an overwhelming degree of unpredicted and unexpected twists and turns. The night was far from uneventful, despite Dimbleby's familiar and ingrained concerns over delays in counting.

My vote wasn't for Labour, however, I can openly say that Jeremy Corbyn handled this election like a true political champion. Even your most dyed-in-the-wool Tory would be hard-pushed to deny that Corbyn has performed a ministerial messianic miracle in this election. Unlike May, or any other of the competing party leaders for that matter, Corbyn mobilised an entire generation of previously apathetic voters - disillusioned with the status quo - who marched in thousands to the polls with a spirit of socialism and change in their wake.

People are sick of political soundbites, obfuscation and vacuous, hollow tautologies. Contrary to May, Corbyn offered a genuinely refreshing and energising vision of a potential Prime Minister and government administration, one that transcended the didactical diatribes of Theresa May and marked him out as a truly down-to-earth human, a real needle in the haystack within the House of Commons. Above all, Corbyn came across as cool; now, whether or not this is a legitimate catalyst for gaining parliamentary power, there is little doubt that it aligned him with a historically underrepresented demographic of young people who would scarcely have taken interest were it not for the originality and authenticity of Corbyn. Could one ever imagine Theresa May sitting down in a cafe with rapper JME? If she did, the ice-breaker from May would probably have been 'I used to run through fields of wheat as a young gunner and the farmers would get vexed; but man don't care about that.'

In all seriousness , Corbyn grabbed this election firmly by the horns whilst May barely clung on; May was dry, insipid, repetitive, limp, fatigued and just plain dull. Corbyn was energetic, exciting, unorthodox, vibrant, new, riveting and optimistic. The difference in election personality was stark. But the truly damaging and embarrassing fact of this election is that it was intended to result in a larger Tory majority in the Commons; it in fact did the very opposite. For this reason, the stellar campaigning of Corbyn as a maverick politician has to be recognised and applauded, even from the political right.

With a coalition between Conservatives and the DUP on the horizon, it is safe to say the snap election has, well, snapped. Regardless of the apocalyptically nightmarish nature of the situation we now have in Westminster, it has to be said that Jeremy Corbyn, a humble man who had been fruitlessly critiqued by the right-wing media, pulled a historic election result out of the bag. Hats off, and hats eaten.


 
 
 

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