He certainly makes some reasonable points about the style of corbyn and his leadership events. This was also roughly what I saw in Middlesbrough in terms of who was attending: "I think I spotted a social trend. There were plenty of young people, in their early twenties, many in couples. And there were plenty of people of my age-group – late 50s upwards. But I rather think those in between were more thinly represented."
I suspect Labour have a better chance of winning if he wins and they challenge the Tories from the centre/social democratic left, speaking in reasonably straightforward terms, thinning the spin out. Certainly more chance than contesting the thing as blairite neoliberal aspirationishts. However I also suspect, even though he doesn't think about it in terms of class forces, he might also be right about a corbo version of Labour not quite getting there in terms of mass appeal. We'll see, it will certainly be interesting to see what happens if you get a party leader communicating in a straightforward way, rooted in principle. I'm not a 3 quidder and actually find it a bit depressing to see thousands of people turning up to these events but nowhere to be seen when it comes to direct class struggle. Same time it will be interesting and I hope he wins.