If Ed Miliband was enough to polarize working-class voters outside of the Thames estuary, imagine how they will react to Jeremy Corbyn’s neo-Bennite platform.
Corbyn may be the hero of faculty lounges and organic food shops but he is bound to alienate large swathes of traditional Labour voters when it comes to the Europe question and immigration.
His victory will indeed change the face of British politics but in ways he never foresaw.