For what it's worth: The musings of Ms G.

"Could it be? Yes it could, something's coming, something good....if I can wait!"   (Leonard Bernstein: from West Side Story) Something is happening. Something big and important and exciting. Something that has been enthusing ordinary people of all ages, colours, creeds and persuasions all over the country. It feels new, it feels strange but also somehow very familiar. It's rough around the edges and incomplete. It's inspiring, it's reassuring, and perhaps what is best of all, it scares the living bejasus out of the previously complacent Establishment. I am old enough and cynical enough not to get taken in by fads, cults, fashion, etc.... I have always been highly doubtful of the motives and motivations of the majority of politicians - the spin, the fancy suits and the soundbites have never held any sway with me. That said, I am wise enough to recognise 'the real thing' when I see it. And contrary to what his detractors want everyone to believe

My blogging has fallen by the wayside in recent weeks, mainly because every time I start writing something, another bizarre, more compelling and noteworthy episode unfolds in the crazy world of the Labour Leadership Election. I started trying to put together a single source of rebuttals to those criticisms we are always hearing about Corbyn, ie that he:  is unelectable; unpatriotic, anti-semitic, 'hard left', doesn't connect with voters etc. It very quickly became clear however that we have moved beyond these unfounded arguments that only the hardiest trolls are still intent on broadcasting. I then started on an enthusiastic piece about the influx of new members to the Party, the Corbyn supporters who bring a range of voices that we haven't heard in British politics for a very long time. Also the MPs who represent these voters, for example the wonderful Angela Rayner, shadow Education Minister who speaks candidly and openly about her working class background, one