The Labour party’s members (excluding registered supporters and affiliates) make up approximately 0.5% of the electorate, if you add in registered supporters and affiliates this still accounts for less than 1% of the population, so having a lot of support within the Labour Party, does NOT mean having a lot of support within the country. Ask yourself this, if there were millions of people in the country who loved Corbyn, hell let’s just say one million people, and they had the chance for £3 to make sure he became the Labour Party’s leader so they could vote for him at the next general election, then why aren’t there now millions of people who’ve joined the party as supporters for £3, the reality is there are 600,000 members, supporters and union affiliates, and half of them on current polls are still Anyone But Corbyn.

Now translating that out across the country, as was written on the ‘Medium’ political blog, Corbyn is getting large crowds, he is incidentally being funded by the Trade Unions with six figure donations that the other candidates are not, and he is packing out halls with 1000 people, but this is during a leadership campaign, during the summer when the weather is good and the nights are light. This however does not mean that his message is agreed with across the country and “managing to get the same attendance for a campaign rally as a low ranking non-league football team can muster on a rainy Monday night really isn’t a sign you’re about to cruise to electoral victory.”