I think there's always been a contradiction in Labour TBH - its identity crisis started long before Corbyn. In a sense, Corbyn's the one without an identity crisis where Labour are concerned. Blair didn't know what he stood for either, except that it wasn't recognisably Labour and it largely seemed to involve playing the Tories at their own game before eventually joining them at their own game. During Cameron's reign, Labour has gone along with policies it should have fought to the death, were it the party it's supposed to be.
We live in a media age where Corbyn goes down like a lead balloon. The Labour supporting Guardian reading baby boomers are now more Tory than Labour - he's an unpleasant reminder of what they used to be. His refusal to play anyone's else's game certainly presents a problem in terms of a lack of showmanship, but doesn't - or shouldn't - affect his standing as a politician. I personally don't buy the selfish and vain narrative - his life hasn't been about lapping up attention and strokes the way Tony Blair's has been. Corbyn is bent on furthering the interests of the people he talks to everyday and his considerably more self-serving enemies within the party are white noise as he goes on his mission. If he was a hen, he'd be the sort that ran around the garden while its head was lying on the chopping board. His opponents seem like children scuppering a boat, saying 'We won't stop doing this until you get out...now get out and stop scuppering this boat'.
There is no coherency anywhere in politics at the moment, from anyone. Corbyn is at least methodical, principled, driven and the only one who really knows what Labour is about. Although far from perfect, his opponents are deliberately doing their best to sabotage his reign by setting up a situation in which he is isolated and divided, then blaming him entirely for it.
I'm not sure that we could expect any Labour to hang onto those who've defected to UKIP. The Tory cuts (on the back of a Blair government that saw the working classes shafted) have left some people so desperate that they are desperately vulnerable to the UKIP polemic. Anything measured, even coming from someone as credible and committed as Corbyn, just wouldn't have been loud enough.
I don't think we should throw Corbyn out. It would be better to acknowledge that this is a pendulum swing that the Labour party has had coming for quite some time. Corbyn needs to listen, he needs to talk - they need to work something out together. And some of the older Guardian readers probably need to vote Tory because their interests are more closely aligned with that party now.