Is jeremy the flame or the fire? Is he electable or will (should he become the leader) crash and burn at the next election and from the ashes will a new leader emerge that will be palatable to the electorate – the Foot Kinnock Blair scenario?

Who cares. One in the eye for the **** who are ‘New Labour’. The left has been marginalised and silenced for too long. Corbyn offers a voice and hope.

Whether he can get elected is largely irrelevant to me. Dave and George are **** whose policies disgust me. But at least they are tories and that is their true colours. New Labour is labour in name only. Masquerading as left wing whilst invading countries, privatising industry, and just generally moving as far from the socialist hard left that I believe in as it’s possible to get without joining the tories.

It’s better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Its a risk to see whether a true alternative to right wing policies will be desirable, as it was in Scotland, or whether it will crash and burn

Only the electorate can answer this for us but he will need to persuade non voters to turn up to win

I sincerely hope that Corbyn is at least the very start of a reappraisal of the left. Thirty six years of Thatcherism simply haven’t worked, unless you’re one of the top few percent who is now exponentially better off.

I’m angry with New Labour, sufficiently angry to abstain in 2001 and 2005 and to vote Lib Dem in 2010. But Corbyn could be the man the party needs to get people like me supporting them again.