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Not many, I would wager.
I voted for him in the initial leadership election because (and you can call me naive for this and I won't throw it back at you in future debates because subsequent events have proved that he's out of his depth and is a bit of a clown) but I have always seen myself as an idealistic socialist who has long yearned for a time when we had a clear "left and right" in British politics again.
I punched the air in '95 when Tony Blair swept in and I wept salt tears of joy at the prospect of a Labour government after all those years of Tory misrule.
And we all know how that turned out........
After all that "Tory Lite" bullshit and the war in Iraq I felt betrayed by the party that I campaigned for as a fresh faced kid with a politics degree under his belt, pounding the pavements and pushing leaflets through doors in Breightmet and (the Tory stronghold of) Bromley Cross.
I can't speak for anyone else but Corbyn struck a chord with me and offered the tantalising prospect of returning to the Labour Party that I first joined in 1988.
A party with a solid moral grounding which was planted firmly on the left of British politics.
Blair's Labour never offered that and I understand why - The political climate at the time wouldn't allow it so things had to change if they ever wanted to get elected.
Corbyistas aren't subtle, they're desperate for change within the Labour Party.
The one we've had in recent years isn't fit for purpose because it's far too similar to the the Tories.
But that matters not. The rank and file don't dictate central policy.
But they do listen in vague terms to what the membership is saying.
And there are still enough of us knocking about with polling cards who can remember a time when singing The Red Flag at the end of conference was nothing more than a benign tradition as opposed to the laughable "communist" anachronism it's being portrayed as in the press nowadays.
I voted for him in the initial leadership election because (and you can call me naive for this and I won't throw it back at you in future debates because subsequent events have proved that he's out of his depth and is a bit of a clown) but I have always seen myself as an idealistic socialist who has long yearned for a time when we had a clear "left and right" in British politics again.
I punched the air in '95 when Tony Blair swept in and I wept salt tears of joy at the prospect of a Labour government after all those years of Tory misrule.
And we all know how that turned out........
After all that "Tory Lite" bullshit and the war in Iraq I felt betrayed by the party that I campaigned for as a fresh faced kid with a politics degree under his belt, pounding the pavements and pushing leaflets through doors in Breightmet and (the Tory stronghold of) Bromley Cross.
I can't speak for anyone else but Corbyn struck a chord with me and offered the tantalising prospect of returning to the Labour Party that I first joined in 1988.
A party with a solid moral grounding which was planted firmly on the left of British politics.
Blair's Labour never offered that and I understand why - The political climate at the time wouldn't allow it so things had to change if they ever wanted to get elected.
Corbyistas aren't subtle, they're desperate for change within the Labour Party.
The one we've had in recent years isn't fit for purpose because it's far too similar to the the Tories.
But that matters not. The rank and file don't dictate central policy.
But they do listen in vague terms to what the membership is saying.
And there are still enough of us knocking about with polling cards who can remember a time when singing The Red Flag at the end of conference was nothing more than a benign tradition as opposed to the laughable "communist" anachronism it's being portrayed as in the press nowadays.
, but that doesn't entitle you to use my name in vain.