Imagining Jeremy Corbyn's 2020 Success

It was with a spring in his step that Jeremy Corbyn, an unusually sprightly 70-year-old strolled down to the polling station on 7 May 2020. After all this was a day most had said would never come. The Labour leader had confounded the critics who said he’d never win the leadership, then those who said he’d be ousted after a succession of disasters.

In fact the public had rather taken to ‘Uncle Jez’ as the Daily Mail referred to him (not that Jeremy took the Mail, but his housekeeper had told him this). There had been a brief wobble when Zac Goldsmith won the London mayoralty after the Evening Standard published a dossier on Jeremy’s meetings with extremists in an attempt to taint Labour’s candidate Sadiq Khan, but that was forgotten after Jeremy delivered a rousing hour and a half speech attacking the media. Afterwards hundreds of people in Islington had patted him on the back and said they’d never buy a paper again - although he noted his newsagent still stocked the Mail and Sun.

101 Days To Go...

I’m starting this blog because like many I will be following the run-up to the general election with the eye of the political anorak, and know others will as well. As such I thought I'd rather like to have an outlet for my thoughts on each day of the long campaign in what could be one of the most bizarre and close general elections in history.

It may be a pithy observation on the day’s events, a picture or video- or sometimes a comprehensive explanation of my view on the day’s electoral sparring and what it means for the election.

I am a left of centre Labour supporter, which of course will colour my view slightly, however I hope that doesn’t mean that I suspend my critical faculties and will be looking at the facts beneath the bluster and won’t hold back on aiming to capture what might be happening – even if that is contrary to the way I’ll ultimately vote on May 7^th.

It’s my view that many of the memes and slogans you hear from all parties are inevitably often caricatures and gross exaggerations (including those parties which cast themselves as outsiders and innocents), so I shall generally write from a sceptical point of view and try to be explicative, humourous and interesting where possible.

Because if all we have to read watch and listen to for the next 101 days is claim and counter-claim, dodgy dossier followed by rebuttal and muddy argument – it’s going to feel like an absolute eternity.