It might be fair to say that a significant number of the UK (English) are little c, conservatives. Not that they are cards in tories, more that they tend to be against radical change, are easily triggered patriots and have been programmed to hate anything attached or aligned to communism.
Corbyn simply presented an easy target for the right wing press and tories who identified multiple pressure points in the national psyche.
Let's just hope that the level of fume keeps building to the point that every man and has dog demands radical change as Lord knows, we need it.