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Originally Posted by Derek
It happened when Corbyn decimated May's majority at the snap election.
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My honest view of that election is that May committed political suicide in the run up to it, effectively handing Labour an open goal that almost any leader
but Corbyn would've tucked away comfortably. The country was absolutely sick and tired of the Tories at that point but too many people saw Corbyn and his cabinet (most obviously the prospect of Diane Abbott as Home Secretary and John McDonnell as Chancellor) as simply unelectable.
I know polls aren't everything but you could say the same thing's happening now. The Tories are in meltdown, with a lame duck leader and no credible replacement in the wings, and yet yougov still puts them ahead of Labour in the polls. Corbyn may have galvanised the youth vote but Labour should be miles ahead nationwide in the current situation.
Latest aggregate figures from YouGov 19th March:
CON 35%, LAB 31%, LDEM 12%, UKIP 6%.
Corbyn has turned Labour into a party for activists in the same way that I see the Democrats becoming a party for activists so long as people like AOC, Ilhan Omar and Bernie Sanders are increasingly able to set the party agenda. The only difference is that they're facing another non-mainstream/anti-Establishment leader in Trump.