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The attacks on the Corbyn camp from parts of the British establishment have come in thick and fast – entirely as expected, given that his overwhelming success was partly predicated on a desire to challenge establishment rule. His resounding victory on the weekend was greeted by headlines arguing that he was a ‘danger to Britain’ (Daily Express), that his union friends were plotting ‘strike chaos’ (Daily Mail and Telegraph), that he was planning to scrap the army (Sun) and that his victory was responsible for dividing the Labour Party (Times).
Since then, the Telegraph has called his shadow chancellor a ‘nutjob’ while the Sun’s attempt to smear him for seeking public funds for Labour has been comprehensively refuted. The Conservatives, having initially dismissed Corbyn as a joke, have now produced a video describing Labour as a ‘threat to our national security’. This is class war – even more vicious than the class war with which Corbyn himself has been associated.
