You hear the Jeremy Corbyn rally before you see it. In Islington, the Labour leader’s home constituency, the sound of the megaphone drifted over the quiet back streets. Indeed, if you have spent the last few weeks reading about the Trotskyist entryists taking over the party, it might seem like the perfect metaphor. Infiltration, of an audible kind.
The reality was far more benign. Highbury Fields is an elegant, tree-lined park in a desirable, Georgian square. The Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) rally took up roughly a third of the grass. While some of the crowd clustered around Corbyn’s signature fire truck, some families had settled down to watch the warm-up speakers from afar, and toddlers danced in the summer sun. There were even camping chairs and a picnic.
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