Corbyn is not slick. Not even particularly charismatic in the usual way. He might be having to get a bit more savvy when it comes to social media and the media…but he does not smell of the ‘normal political class’. That there even is a ‘normal political class’ that we can identify in this way is a terrible indictment of where we are at! That the Parliamentary Labour Party are worried that he doesn’t fit these images of what a leader should be is a sign of how out of touch with their roots, with the people they are supposed to represent, (although, who is that, now?) and with any actual, real, politics, they are. Jeremy Corbyn does not ‘smell’ to me like someone who would be comfortable sitting at the bar or the dinner table with lobbyists from private corporations, with the invisible rich and powerful who exercise their influence over other politicians. The others, many of them your colleagues in the supposed ‘no confidence in Corbyn’ camp, smell of that. And it stinks.