Jeremy Corbyn Takes lead in polls over the Conservatives

Corbyn isn't becoming PM. The Tories will form a government with outside support from DUP (an Irish Unionist Party). Labour did quite well this election but the SNP collapsing in Scotland really ruined their chances of forming a government.
#20 geeimsobored, 29 minutes ago

Looks like it, but : from Jacobin Magazine the new leading magazine of the American left. Corbyn is a repeat of and even an expansion of the Bernie Movement against the failure of the right and the "tepid moderation" of the Clinton/Obama Dems. Note the US paralells, the decades long oss of seats, the hostility of the "billionaire press", the stupid wars, especially Iraq, the chasing of comfortable professionals and finance by the Dems etc.
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I don't care if he didn't actually win — he won. Jeremy Corbyn has given us a blueprint to follow for years to come
the last few weeks have vindicated the approach of the Labour left and its international cothinkers under Corbyn.

This is the first election Labour has won seats in since 1997, and the party got its largest share of the vote since 2005 — all while closing a twenty-four point deficit. Since Corbyn assumed leadership in late 2015, he has survived attack after attack from his own party, culminating in a failed coup attempt against him. As Labour leader he was unable to rely on his parliamentary colleagues or his party staff. The small team around him was bombarded with hostile internal leaks and misinformation, and an unprecedented media smear campaign.

Every elite interest in the United Kingdom tried to knock down Jeremy Corbyn, but still he stands. He casts a longer shadow over his party’s centrists tonight than at any time since he was elected Labour leader.
Corbyn salvaged this election by bucking Labour’s conservative slide over the past several decades and sticking to his left-wing guns. His success provides a blueprint for what democratic socialists need to do in the years to come.

Labour’s surge confirms what the Left has long argued: people like a straightforward, honest defense of public goods. Labour’s manifesto was sweeping

Labour was discredited by the Blair-Brown administrations — from their catastrophic military adventures in Iraq to their privatization agenda at home and their overseeing of the financial crisis. The Blairites got their wish: Labour was looking more and more like a social liberal party than a social-democratic one, embracing the financial sector and prepared to “modernize” the welfare state by gutting it. But there was no serious challenge from its left, and there were professional-class voters to chase.