"I think you'll find Corbyn (his name is Jeremy Corbyn, by the way) was partially elected by hardcore Conservative Tories."
"faded 1980s Stalinist and Trotskyite thought "Whacko", and joined."
This detailed study shows, as I thought, that you are completely wrong in your guesswork as to the political outlook of those who joined the Labour party because they thought (incorrectly of course) that Corbyn was a socialist leader.
"Oh Jeremy Corbyn! Why did Labour Party membership soar after the 2015 general election?"
"This article investigates the remarkable surge in individual membership of the Labour Party after the general election of May 2015, particularly after Jeremy Corbyn was officially nominated as a candidate for the leadership in June of that year."
"People who joined the Labour Party for the first time after the 2015 election were more likely to be influenced by anti-capitalist values than were returning and existing members."
"Many people who rejoined the Labour Party after the 2015 election were returning members who had left the Party during the Blair/Brown era because they were disillusioned by the ‘centre ground’ politics typified by New Labour. They rejoined Labour because they were attracted by radical left-wing policies proposed by Jeremy Corbyn as an answer to the challenges of modern society."
"In line with earlier results, we can also see that those who supported Jeremy Corbyn tended to have lower incomes. Thus, it seems that it is the ‘objective’ conditions creating a sense of rela-tive deprivation that are more important in influencing positive feelings towards Jeremy Corbyn than any subjective fear of poverty. Finally, as we have already seen for first-time joiners in the previous model, Corbyn supporters are more likely to be female than male." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1369148118815408
