The Wire

Jeremy Corbyn, the new Labour leader in the UK promises a volatile party meeting at his first caucus with over 200 of his MP’s against his leadership tilt. Former ALP Foreign Minister & Premier Bob Carr and former UK PM’s Tony Blair and Gordon Brown all labelled Jeremy “unelectable” in a bruising leadership campaign that for the first time, elected the leader by party members and not the parliamentary party. Huge numbers of young people voted for the wild and woolley figure of the left Corbyn, whose straight talking seemed to be a breath of fresh air in a suffocating babble of austerity-speak