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It does not matter that Jeremy Corbyn is not sitting in No 10 right now as the Prime Minister. The mere fact that he has disrupted the political climate the way he has in the wake of a shocking General Election is the larger success for him.

For he was painted as a perennial loser, a throwback to endless chaos, a leader arguably unfit to lead, a hopeless harbinger of past idealisms and fanciful aspirations and he was demonised and spat upon by those who swore to uphold the best interests of the party he leads. It is remarkable Jeremy Corbyn is standing in the wake of the arrows thrown in his path over these painful months of his premiership and has upset the political balance the way he has and in such a short space of time since Theresa May gambled in calling the General Election.

Of course, 'Labour' politicians have now lined up to apologise, to shrug and argue that clearly they underestimated the Corbyn factor whilst other backstabbing commentators are now heaping praise upon his temerity and political skill; one can only ask why these individuals are so fickle, doing more U-turns that a Conservative manifesto.

Corbyn has proven himself to be the man that's done more toregenerate a socialist currentin the UK than the Blairites ever did,trebled the membershipof the Labour Party,enthused young peoplefor the first time in generations, overturned a 20%+ poll lead and while, prima facie, it is not a victory in the literal sense it is the largest swing for twenty years.

The Corbyn factor has now generated a platform of 600,000 members to re-build a genuine social-democratic party with the result that the right-wing/Blairites are going to have to do some hard swallowing. As well as swallowing their pride, they should entirely rethink their positions. The ones who should apologize to Corbyn are alleged bastions of virtue such as Jess Phillips and Angela Eagle and their ilk. They wished Corbyn to fail and had no integrity. The task of Labour, after this, and regardless of who gets to form the government, is to start acting as a party with an agenda of progressive politics whose representatives stand for its positions and actively fight the austerity-isolationism agenda of the Tories.

For Corbyn the problem was the PLP - the Blairite MPs who did not get behind Corbyn except to plunge a knife between his shoulders. Now they have been elected - and there's an influx of new ones too - on the basis of an obviously popular left-wing manifesto. They really must get behind him and that will mean the next election could see Labour win.

The fact Corbyn is standing and that his message penetrated the landscape the way it did in such a short amount of campaigning time is remarkable. Everybody, including myself had presumed a Tory majority. I just couldn't see Labour rebounding by that much. But they did, and it is down to a strong manifesto and Jeremy Corbyn's personal charm (and despite the own goals from many characters in his ranks). He convinced thousands of young people to come out and vote for the very first time. He increased Labour's vote share to 40% from polls before the election at 28%, with a 10% swing to the party.

The Tories have thrown away three years of a majority, some believe it is down to pure greed. Even though they will still form the next government, this cannot be seen as anything other than a humiliation for them and a crushing personal defeat for Theresa May. She called this election specifically to crush Labour, and they have manifestly failed to do that.

Perhaps those outside the youth vote realised it was manifestly unfair that Jeremy Corbyn faced the barrage of criticism the way he did and admired that he did this with stoicism and resoluteness. Also despite the opprobrium heaped on them at times the British people have an innate sense of fairness which drew them to recognize that Corbyn was offering a positive hope for the future.

The expectation seven weeks ago in certain circles was a devastating collapse of the Labour Party, the annihilation of opposition in the U.K. parliament and an unstoppable Tory party driving through the selling off of NHS assets and telling us what kind of Brexit deal we deserved without accountability.

Labour from a dismal start in the polls pulled the Corbyn factor back from the brink and did not deliver a Tory victory, but a Pyrrhic victory in which the Tories are hamstrung, almost certainly unable to push through much of their manifesto and without strong or stable leadership.

What this result shows is that Corbyn, his beliefs and those of a populace willing to hear his message are all that matters. The faux left-wing media, The Guardian editorship, and many of its columnists, were against Corbyn from the start. The charlatans that form the bulk of the PLP ought to be hanging their heads in shame. No doubt after savaging Corby in the press, and plotting against him within the party itself, they will now have to crawl back with their tails between their legs and admit they were wrong. No doubt the likes of Hillary Benn, and the rest of his ilk will find a way of excusing their self-serving opposition to Corbyn in the hope of getting back into the Shadow Cabinet so that they can once again revel in the publicity they all crave for.

If he had sense, Corbyn should have none of it and leave them all to waste away on the back benches. Perhaps its also time he rescinds the expulsion of an invaluable political asset, one George Galloway.

He has built a mass grassroots party and by mobilising the young, the dispossessed and sections like public sector workers, worried pensioners etc he has bolted on a new huge vote that did not fire before.

The mould is broken. Even after being accused of treason by the tabloids, vilified by Labour MPs and being the subject of unending denigration by even the BBC, Corbyn has outperformed any and all commentators with a big increase in Labour representation.

Labour MPs must now stop trying to knife him in the back, and turn to and take up front bench jobs.

He has proved that there is another route to power, another message that British voters are opening their ears to listen to.

*(Jeremy Corbyn campaign in West Kirby. Image credit: Andy Miah/ flickr).