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Corbyn might appeal to the Labour membership but not to the electorate. In a way the problem facing Labour is a bit like that facing the Republicans in the US - candidates have to appeal to the Labour grassroots to secure the leader position but they then have to phrase themselves in a very different way to win over the country as a whole, or at least to win over those parts of the country that are needed to win an election. I don't think Miliband was too left-wing but I do think he was caught between those two impulses and he never reconciled them. I was reading an article yesterday saying how Blair's success was that he was a Labour leader who didn't look like a Labour leader. The country hasn't elected a 'proper' Labour leader since Wilson in a drastically different time. The only one who really seems to appreciate that is Kendall but I can't see her winning unfortunately. Cooper and Burnham must be the two most uninspiring front runners of a leadership contest in a long long time.