Jeremy Corbyn – imposing his control on the UK Labour Party

Never has Plato’s thought, that the problem with democracy is that it elevates opinion above knowledge, seemed more true. What with Trump being elected by precisely those voters his policies will damage most. Macron shoehorned into the Elysee Palace with no experience, but spurred to victory because he wasn’t like his rivals (except he is). And an avuncular Jeremy Corbyn being lauded to the heavens at Glastonbury after a surprise surge in popularity at the recent UK election, his young, mainly pro-EU, admirers having failed to notice that he has always seen the EU as a capitalist conspiracy. So he’s very much for a hard Brexit, which conveniently didn’t get a mention during campaigning. A recent poll found that ‘Six out of 10 Britons want to keep their European Union citizenship after Brexit – including the rights to live, work, study and travel in the EU – and many would be prepared to pay large sums to do so. ‘Support for retaining the rights is particularly strong among 18- to 24-year-olds, 85% of whom want to retain their EU citizenship in addition to their British citizenship. Around 80% of people living in London also want to maintain the same rights.’

There are now mutterings about a breakaway party being formed if Corbyn and comrades push ahead with the deselection of MPs they regard as outside the pale, with a view to forming a tightly disciplined hard-left Labour Party.

His leadership chart certainly indicates a triumph in about 14 months as the Solar Arc Sun moves to conjunct Jupiter; though with some sinking moments later this year and at least one major setback.

The Labour Party 27 Feb 1900 chart, looks panicked and sinking with a Solar Arc Mars conjunct Neptune in 2018; with discouragement and uncertainty this year as well with tr Saturn square Mercury and opposition Neptune; and tr Neptune square Pluto.

The LP 12 Feb 1906 looks on high alert this year with its central T square of Uranus in Capricorn opposition Neptune square Mars in Aries having moved by Solar Arc to pick up tr Uranus hard aspects this year into early 2018. Then through 2018 tr Saturn in Capricorn is in hard aspect to that natal T Square for more squabbles and ruptures. With the Uranus Return in 2019, perhaps returning the LP to its working-class revolutionary roots.

His relationship chart with both LP charts is fairly fraught at heart and under significant pressures over the next two to three years. His own personal chart hints at discouraging challenges mid this month to early September and again in November. With some high hopes biting the dust. But again some lucky breaks in 2018.

Momentum, the grassroots Corbyn-support movement, was formed 8 October 2015. Like its forerunner Militant, it has revolutionary Uranus Pluto strongly in its chart (square and opposition a Libra Sun); and is undergoing radical shifts over the next three years. There’ll be disappointment this year and next with tr Neptune opposition Jupiter and then Solar Arc Jupiter, which tends to bring false happiness and then a let-down. With more of the same in exaggerated form in 2020 to 2022.