Corbyn welcomes Jim McMahon to Parliament. Mark Kerrison/Demotix. All rights reserved.In mid-August 2015, and in a departure from the norm, one of these columns speculated on Jeremy Corbyn’s first hundred days as leader of the Labour Party, three weeks before he had even won the election (see "Jeremy Corbyn's first 100 days", 19 August 2015). It was a bit of fantasy at the time but now that he has just about completed those first hundred days, just how does it look?
That particular column started by commenting on David Cameron’s first hundred days as leader of a Conservative Party with an unexpected majority, but made the point that his party had very quickly focused on the rare opportunity to set the agenda. Labour, after all, was in disarray and might even elect the notoriously far-left Mr Corbyn (see "What's behind the Corbyn surge?", 26 July 2015).
From a Conservative perspective, Christmas hadn’t just come early but promised to last for a good five years. Even more important than this, though, was the need to move towards a proper neo-liberal light-government society of a kind that had been made so annoyingly difficult when they were held back by the Liberal Democrats. As that column put it:
