The first time I took any notice of Corbyn was when I saw him deliver one of his Christmas Messages.  There he was, if I remember rightly, trying to do a "fire-side chat".   Sitting in an antique leather Chesterfield and dressed in a velvet jacket and tie.  I could picture the glass of Claret and smell the cigar smoke, just out of shot.  He looked the picture of an Edwardian "Gentleman".  He blathered on about all the usual Socialist stuff --  equality, re-distribution of wealth, inclusive society etc etc.

Closer to home and during this election campaign, I happened to drive past my local Labour candidate's house, festooned with "Vote Labour" banners, I actually did LOL.  This impressive residence is a recent new-build, £1m+ detached mansion in one of the more exclusive areas of the town.

To me this is why the grass roots, natural Labour voters don't trust Corbyn or the Labour party.  They know that the MPs have more in common with their Tory counter-parts than with them.  They vote them in, but only to worry the more extreme wing of the tories, or until their policies become too radical.  

Corbyn suffered the perfect storm and lost because of the combination of the on-going distrust of Labour and the popular determination to leave the EU, which in itself came about because of the more general distrust of the political class.