Jeremy Corbyn has electrified the Labour leadership campaign. Demotix/Haydn Wheeler. All rights reserved.I spent my best years on an island. I remember the lovely breeze, the drizzle, the occasional scorching day. The 2009 big snow. The underground strikes I agreed with despite being a right pain. I recall waiting for buses that would never come in the middle of a great countryside. This was Britain for me.
It’s a shame I can’t claim now to be one of the eight million foreign-born souls who live there. I wish I could, if anything to be able at least to follow the Labour leadership contest more closely. I’ll tell you why.
As seen from Europe the race sounds cracking. It started off with young candidates (Tristram Hunt and Chuka Umunna). Traditional parties on the Continent have a ghastly tendency to go for older men instead.
