Messiah of Islington: A flash in the pan or a long-term player?

The landslide victory of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election looks set to transform the political discourse in our large neighbour island. There is an otherworldly quality to the north London MP, who first served as a councillor way back in 1974, before being elected as MP for Islington North in 1982.

The Corbynites have come from nowhere, with the backing of the large trade unions, Unison and Unite, to squash the Blairite social democrats and the disciples of Gordon Brown.

For the first time since the 1930s, when George Lansbury was leader, Labour will be led by an out-and-out pacifist, but it is Corbynomics, the radical suite of economic policies which have attracted most attention from the commentariat.