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British politics is changed forever

We are poised to have a real opposition at last

TOMORROW we find out the result of the most exciting Labour Party leadership contest for generations.

This newspaper, its readers and supporters and many, many more across the country are waiting on the news we’ve been longing for, campaigning for and fighting for for months — a victory for Jeremy Corbyn, which would put the Labour Party back on track.

Even if some cruel twist deprives Corbyn of the triumph he has so richly earned — not just by running this phenomenal campaign but over decades of relentless struggle for peace and justice — he has changed Labour and changed the national debate.

This is the gnawing fear at the back of the minds of the Blairite goons who want Labour to be nothing more than a Tory Party Mark II — equally addicted to privatisation, just as prone to lawless violence overseas and every bit as ready to fawn on the faceless corporations which increasingly dominate Britain and the world.

The Corbyn phenomenon has left its detractors gobsmacked. Tony Blair famously admitted that he could not understand what was going on in the party he used to lead.

Yesterday it was David Cameron’s turn to talk of “bewilderment” at the process.

Labour had “vacated the intellectual playing field,” he sneered.

No, Mr Cameron. What you are seeing — and it’s understandable that you’re not used to it — is opposition.

Real, full-throated, passionately felt and — yes — intellectually formidable opposition of the head and of the heart.

A movement that rejects you, your party and your austerity.

That understands that super-rich bankers caused the financial crash, and have got away with it, continuing to award themselves an ever larger share of the nation’s wealth under your pitiful excuse for a premiership.

That values the public services built up by Britain’s peoples over generations and the public servants who work long hours on inadequate wages to deliver them.

That sees the way your party has blamed the poor for the crimes of the rich and has used the bankers’ crash as an excuse for an axe-mad assault on the low-paid, the unemployed, the disabled and the sick.

That knows that the bombings, invasions and drone killings that have fuelled the fires of the Middle East since the turn of the millennium have not just killed millions and ruined countries — they have recruited an army of fanatical terrorists, provoked the current refugee crisis and made this country far less safe.

So your posturing about Corbyn being unfit for office because he dares to voice doubt about the extrajudicial assassinations you’ve decided to join Washington and Tel Aviv in commissioning is not going to work.

The real opposition in this country has a voice again, and it will not be silenced.

The Conservatives will no longer have the luxury of a Labour Party frightened of its own shadow, desperately trying to mimic its cruelty to the vulnerable in order to sound “tough,” cheering on reckless acts of bloodletting abroad and hopping to catch up with a “centre ground” dragged inexorably to the right by ministers and the billionaire press.

Instead of the usual phoney war on Tory turf, a challenge has been mounted to a bankrupt political scene that offers us nothing but permanent insecurity, poverty wages, soaring living costs and mounting debt, both personal and public — for our country has amassed more debt in five years of Tory rule than it did in the whole 13 years of Labour before that.

The best of luck to Jeremy Corbyn tomorrow. Our chances of a better, fairer, stronger Britain are greater with a Corbyn-led Labour Party than without one.

But we know that win or not, Corbyn will continue fighting for that Britain — as will the movement he has inspired.

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