“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

This Gandhi saying is mentioned by Gary Younge in his Guardian article today:

Corbyn victory energises the alienated and alienates the establishment

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/13/jeremy-corbyn-victory-energises-the-alienated-labour

His trajectory these last few months has conformed to that dictum for radical reformers generally attributed to Gandhi: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

An excellent article.

Zoe Williams is equally good on the vacuousness of contemporary political interviews:

Jeremy Corbyn is redefining opposition – come what may

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/13/corbyn-opposition-labour-leader

She concludes:

If Corbyn can crack open the certainties of politics, so that the alienating verities of centrism, fake moderation and evasiveness have to cede to something more like a contest between genuinely different ideas, opposition may become a meaningful pursuit even while power is unknowably distant.