PY selenium unittest- clicking element does not login

Want to be able to test login in a functional test with selenium.

views.py:

def login_view(request, *args, **kwargs):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        if not request.POST.get('remember_me', None):
            request.session.set_expiry(0)
    return auth_views.login(request, *args, **kwargs)

functional_tests.py:

class SomeTestCase(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.browser = webdriver.Firefox()

   def test1(self):     
        self.browser.get("http://ift.tt/1NVhBji")
        username = self.browser.find_element_by_id("id_username")
        password = self.browser.find_element_by_id("id_password")
        username.send_keys(USER['username'])
        password.send_keys(USER['password'])
        self.browser.find_element_by_name("login").click()

        # should now be on the right page
        self.browser.get('http://ift.tt/1rjq8If')
        logout_link_text = self.browser.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT,"Logout")
        self.assertisNotNone(logout_link_text)

Fails. Manually it logs in and redirects to the loggedin_only page properly. Have also tried an implicit wait.

Is there a good way of testing the redirect?