This Is What Jeremy Corbyn’s New Labour Coalition Looks Like

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http://www.thenation.com/article/this-is-what-jeremy-corbyns-new-labour-coalition-looks-like/

Even if it fails, the insurgency may have permanently altered Labour’s political dynamics. Even if a new generation of Cold War bruisers from the trade-union right could be assembled to suppress the left, even if a generation of bright neoliberals could be found to replace the dull ones, the UK establishment would still tell itself: This is a party of which we once lost control.

If it does survive it will be because of the youngsters in hi-vis vests. At every Corbyn rally they are there—students, ex-students, young union organizers, veterans of the eco-movement and Occupy. They are quickly populating the TV studios as broadcasters hunt for Labour pundits who actually support Corbyn.

This is a generation for whom political studies means reading Foucault, not the biographies of prime ministers or handbooks of parliamentary procedure. Few have any desire to become the new MPs, spin-doctors and strategists Corbyn needs. And the man himself is happier on a demo than in the House of Commons.

So Corbynism, while it lasts, will be a form of anti-politics. Though it has brought traditional social democrats close to despair there is a method in it.

The only thing that could reunite the lost tribes of Labour—the white workers, the salariat, the Scots and the Greens—is the radical rejection of everything that the party, and the political system, has become. The question is, can he achieve that while maintaining the loyalty of Labour’s centrist voters, quelling the Blairite revolt, and avoiding presentational catastrophe?

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1. Which explains THIS: British Army 'could stage mutiny under Corbyn', says senior serving general

Generals would not 'allow a prime minister to jeopardise the security of the UK'

A senior serving general has reportedly warned that a Jeremy Corbyn government could face "a mutiny" from the Army if it tried to downgrade them.

The unnamed general said members of the armed forces would begin directly and publicly challenging the labour leader if he tried to scrap Trident, pull out of Nato or announce “any plans to emasculate and shrink the size of the armed forces.”

He told the Sunday Times: “The Army just wouldn’t stand for it. The general staff would not allow a prime minister to jeopardise the security of this country
and I think people would use whatever means possible, fair or foul to prevent that. You can’t put a maverick in charge of a country’s security.

“There would be mass resignations at all levels and you would face the very real prospect of an event which would effectively be a mutiny.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/british-army-could-stage-mutiny-under-corbyn-says-senior-serving-general-10509742.html

To what degree this thinking is really going on, I find it interesting, and a bit revealing.