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Res Publica: Well, I'll eat my hat... Jeremy Corbyn defied the pundits, the pollsters, the commentariat, the bookies and the soothsayers. But what on earth happens next?

Regulars | By Simon Carr


There is no recipe that makes hat palatable. I’m eating mine raw, and hoping there isn’t a rabbit hiding in it. What an imbroglio. Everything that was inevitable is suddenly impossible. That which was ridiculous is a new reality. The most Left-wing leadership of the most dysfunctional party of anyone’s lifetime spent an entire election campaign topping the newslist with its terrorist affiliations, its multi-billion pound magic money tree, its inability to remember names, ages or what policy it was offering. Where it wasn’t economically incompetent or ignorant or idiotic, it was absurd. That cup was drained to its dregs. Then two terrible attacks turned the electorate’s attention to security – always the Tories’ strongest suit. Awful crimes were perpetrated against our people and our national values. Acts of treason committed by terrorists. It was inconceivable that a quasi-Marxist threesome would survive the daily roasting in the press, let alone...


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