If Jeremy Corbyn wins, it will be the first time a major party in a major European democracy falls victim to the process that’s going on in the rest of Europe. That is, the process where old, tired, and complacent social democratic parties are undermined and expelled from power by popular resentment on the left. Now, we’ll just have to think of a new name to go with Pasokification. Maybe Corbynification? What happened here is sufficiently different to warrant a new name.

In the rest of Europe, because of the electoral systems there, popular revolts happen through new parties. People become tired of one party, and flood to a new one, abandoning the old. This is what happened to the Greek social democratic party Pasok. When it lost credibility, some people formed Syriza, and when the supporters of Pasok became aware of Syriza’s existence, they flooded to it. Pasok, a party who once commanded majority support in Greece, now struggle to keep its nose above the parliamentary hurdle.

On the continent, it is far easier to displace the established order. In the UK, it’s not so easy. In May 3.8 million people voted for an insurgent party on the right, UKIP, but it sill only managed to keep one seat in the House of Commons. It actually lost one seat despite the number of voters. The Green party of England and Wales captured 1.1 million voters, and only managed to retain its single seat in Brighton. For Ukip that’s an electoral share of 12.7 %, and for the Greens it was an electoral share of 3.8 %. Almost 17 per cent of the voters share two seats in the House of Commons. Compare that to the SNP, who on 1.4 million votes got 56 seats thanks to their regional concentration. New parties in the UK are wasted votes, and go nowhere, which makes political change that much harder.

However, the same forces that brought us SNP, Ukip and the Greens, are now at work within the Labour Party, and by all measures it will completely transform the party. The old leadership is tired and uninspiring. An obscure backbench MP has become the unlikely lightning rod for change. Money, people, and enthusiasm has flooded into the Jeremy Corbyn campaign.

It seems that the contest is already over, bar the shouting. In two years, the politics of the UK will then, to paraphrase Alex Salmond after the defeat in the Scottish referendum, have ‘changed utterly’. What started as an existential clash between independistas and unionists in Scotland, continued over in an utter rout of the Labour party here. But, a loud and credible protest about austerity took place on national media for the first time and people loved it, and that will now end in a crescendo where one of two major parties, the Labour party, become something completely different from what it was just weeks ago.

The Common Weal activists Robin Macalpine coined the term ‘butterfly rebellion’ just before the referendum when people still hoped we’d win the vote. Well we didn’t, and the worm that was the Labour party kept eating away at the rotten apple of the union. But now it appears to have pupated, and on September 12th, nearly a full year after the referendum, a butterfly will emerge from the husk of the old Labour party.And it will be the spawn of the same ideological rebellion that nearly made Scotland independent.