Quote (zarkadon @ 9 Jun 2017 18:42)
Corbyn won an amazing personal victory last night. He has been blasted by the press and even by members of his own party but he increased his party's share of the vote by ~11%. That's a big shift. He showed all who doubted him that he has what it takes to lead the labour party more than any other labour leader has had since Blair and he got about the same popular vote as Blair. He fought an amazing campaign and I'm proud to be one of the people who stood by him when everyone else was giving in to the media onslaught.
He didn't need to win the election (though of course that would have been nice). That was extremely unlikely from the start. But what he did achieve was phenomenal and far beyond what anyone, even staunch Corbynites, expected 6 weeks ago.