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If, as appears likely, Britain’s opposition Labour Party announces at lunchtime on Saturday that its new leader is veteran left-wing MP Jeremy Corbyn, it will be on the back of the decision to open the electoral process up to so-called “three quid voters” in a bid to broaden the membership base and “widen the debate.”

They certainly did that.

The debate – schism, even – within the party now, however, has been portrayed as being between those who believe in ideological consistency and those who favor a pragmatic approach to political power.

But is the leader-in-waiting really as opposed to compromise as some would like to think?

(The Guardian/Tomorrow’s Papers Today)

And of course, there’s this, from Private Eye:

Fraser Nelson writes in The Telegraph about what a Corbyn leadership means for the Conservatives.

Corbyn is offering fantasy policies for a fantasy world – but it’s not enough for Cameron to hold them up to ridicule. He needs to occupy the political space that is about to be vacated. He must ask: what would a sensible, effective Labour Party leader be saying? And then say it himself. In a way, he should become the opposition to his own government – which is less bizarre than it sounds.

Meanwhile, on Friday Labour announced that its candidate in the upcoming contest for Mayor of London will be another left-winger, Sadiq Khan.

So, does this weekend mark the end of Blairism? Maybe.

Certainly, the past three months, as the fractious leadership campaign has intensified, has represented the beginning of the end.

In an interview with the Observer, Dame Tessa Jowell, a cabinet minister in Blair’s governments and a political soulmate, who is now a frontrunner in the race to be Labour candidate for mayor of London, also criticises the ex-prime minister for attacking Corbyn and urges him and others to engage with Labour’s hundreds of thousands of new members for the long-term good of the party.

“I don’t think there is any point in people who are no longer engaged in frontline politics giving their view from afar. I really don’t. I think it would be great if they all get into the new activism,” Jowell says.

“We have to be patient and have the humility to accept that there is a tidal wave with all sorts of currents and that the general election is five years away, and I want to do everything I can to show Labour how it wins with a different kind of politics, which is engaging people.”