A marrow-growing, manhole cover enthusiast isn’t exactly cult material. His supporters aren’t blind to Labour’s pitfalls, but fed up with remote, dreary politics
• Rachel Shabi is a freelance journalist
The Jeremy Corbyn chant has been declared the unofficial summer anthem of 2017, he’s still pulling crowds around the country and street murals and merchandise bearing his name are everywhere. Corbynmania shows no signs of fading – and for some, this is terrible. From foreign secretary Boris Johnson depicting the Corbyn-cheering thousands at Glastonbury as a brainwashed cult under a spell, to commentators decrying this popularity as a scary cult of personality, the outpouring of enthusiasm for the Labour leader is alternately ridiculed or depicted as dangerous.
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