Jeremy Corbyn’s carefully Momentum-constructed image as a higher order of honest, egalitarian and pacific political leader is well and truly busted. Those who cling to him as The Last Hope will never accept that reality. But to those with an open mind, he is a fringe politician with a long history of nurturing extreme causes, minority interests and violent protest. Just because the media are out to get him doesn’t mean he’s innocent.
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Now that everyone is at the game of redefining words and normalising the abnormal, it’s good to see that – after a lifetime of cleaving only to tiny minority fringe groups – Jeremy Corbyn has at long last joined the mainstream truth-benders. Throughout the three years since he ran rings round the Milibrown Tonies (not to be confused with the Blaircam Tories) Jezzer has both redefined and normalised his entire career. As if his life was about to end, Mr Corbyn has seen his whole life flash before him…..and “changed” just about everything in it.
Let’s get something upfront at the outset: there is no doubt in my mind that the Establishment press has been out to demonise Jeremy of Nazareth from Day One. The Murdoch Group in particular has smeared him at every opportunity, ditto the Express and Mail…with the Telegraph piling in whenever it was ordered so to do. There is an issue of freedom of speech (and the right to hold unpopular views) which is at the core of every healthy democracy. But my problem with Jesus of Islington is threefold.
First, he is now part of a popularity contest, and he is hard at it. He has directed and approved the attempt by Momentum (an organisation not even affiliated to the Labour Party) to present him as the Messiah who comes with factory-fitted loaves, fishes, wine transmutation and tickets to Paradise. In following this present path of populism, he is now forced to keep wriggling out of his past. This is not the action of an honest and principled man. To first of all insist on his democratic rights, and then pretend he never used them to fraternise with undesirables, is a double hypocrisy.
Second, I keep seeing the standard foulmouthed, spittle-hurling from Corbyn’s followers on Twitter about “a witch hunt”. This is fair enough, because that is indeed what the majority of British and global media is engaged in. The problem is, it seems highly likely that, based on his track record, Our Jeremy is, um, a witch. Corresponding with Oliver Letwin on the subject of Andy Coulson a few years back, I felt obliged to point out that the flaw in his defence was guilt. (More of the new JC’s guilt follows)
Third, it is hard to reconcile the way Jeremy Corbyn began his Labour leadership with the man we see before us today. He said he wanted more dignity in politics, for PMQs to be more in tune with ordinary people’s concerns, and to increase the level of public trust in the truthfulness of Parliamentary debate. But what he has shown, sadly, is a willingness to emit bromides about Royal weddings, ignore people’s concerns about immigration, and be scurrilously opportunistic in his attempt to ride bandwagons like Grenfell Tower, Windrush, Votes at 16, and the Brexit negotiation shambles.
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Let us us start where we end, in fact: at Brexit, and the sorry history of our sovereign relationship with the European Union. I have yet to write to, talk with or simply ask a single MP (existing or former) in the House of Commons who believes that Mr Corbyn feels anything other than undiluted enmity towards the EU. From Kate Hoey downwards (and it really is downwards after Kate Hoey) they have all said the same thing: “When it came to fringe groups and public gatherings opposed to the EU, Jeremy was an ever-present and voluble critic of everything Brussels stands for”.
Now he simply evades discussion of the topic. He claims he voted to Remain, which is a pretty disgraceful abandonment of core principles; and if he lied about that, then the same judgement applies. But his attitude to the EU will catch up with him if Britain stays in, because several of his policies wouldn’t fly with Brussels. Further, if he continued with Brexit when in power, Labour too would be in crisis. Meanwhile, he’s very happy for the Tories to take all the flak and face an irreparable split on the issue. Because he’s a politician.
Throughout his public life, JC has claimed his democratic right to speak out. He has always supported a more direct form of democracy, and the last system likely to deliver that is the existing FPTP constituency system. Yet now he supports FPTP. Why? Because a move to PR would vastly increase the number of seats held by (and the appeal of) a new Centre Party and UKIP. So Jeremy defends the indefensible….in return for power. Because he’s a politician.
That he befriended (and approved of) violent enemies of the British way of life cannot be denied by calling the UK media set biased: it is biased against him, but matters of public record with strong photographic evidence are facts, not smears. He was a supporter of the IRA, and never once condemned their use of violence. He refuses to condemn the Hard Left Venezuelan leader’s huge curtailment of Opposition freedom. He refused to condemn Momentum when it reversed its pacifist stance. He never criticises Recep Erdogan, because the Turkish leader is virulently anti-Israel and a pretty obvious Islamist. And now, of course, we have the ever-changing tale of his attendance at a remembrance for the Jihadists who murdered Jewish athletes at the German Olympics: “I didn’t know it was a remembrance…..I didn’t lay a wreath, oh hang on, there I am moving the wreath, er…but I didn’t inhale”. He denies the obvious nature of his past, because it’s unpopular with everyone beyond his clique. Because he’s a politician.
I would think it extremely unlikely that Jeremy Corbyn is a “real” anti-Semite. But he doesn’t recognise the State of Israel, he supports the appeasement of Iran, and he does have many in his circle who are Petrified Left haters of all things Jewish. For the British Left to deny that tradition really is the ultimate in redefined normality: they have always hated financiers, and such people are overwhelmingly Jewish compared to the tiny percentage of the UK population they represent. Alan Sugar understands this perfectly well, which is why as a lifelong Labour voter he is so anti-Corbyn.
As usual, the Jewish lobby is being hysterical about it, but then the Islamic lobby is also demanding that Boris Johnson be thrown out of the Conservative Party and undergo some form of ideological lobotomy….simply because he wrote an article against banning the Burka, while admitting he thought it a ridiculous garment. Corbyn is with the Mob on that one, because BoJo would be a more difficult leader to beat than Theresa May – and Jeremy now has the scent of power in his nostrils. Because he is a politician.
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The Labour leader is where he is today because Ed Miliband thought it would be a good idea to ‘democratise’ the Leadership voting franchise to include all Labour Party members. But for many decades now – all the way back to the People’s Republic of Lambeth – Labour members have been dominated by activist infiltrators from the extreme Left. Joe Stalin said, “History is made by those who turn up”, and activist wonks never fail to turn up when there’s a chance to vote. Sadly, wonks bear no resemblance whatsoever to the mass of Labour voters. For the great majority of them, Owen Jones is a silly little pillock of no importance who knows Fanny Adams about how they think and what they feel.
Jeremy is also where he is thanks to the crass decision by UKIP to stand aside in 2017. That brought a windfall of former Kippers back into the Labour fold – on the basis of “Anyone but May” – but they too have nothing in common with the clique that has hijacked the Party, and is now busy trying to purge it of “revisionist” elements.
Mr Corbyn has little freedom of movement within either the PLP or the habitual Labour voter, who is (I understand) appalled by the decision to deselect Kate Hoey. He also must – whatever Smoothie McDonnell says – accept that the Alt States running the planet will give him zero room for maneouvre: at the first sight of Soviet Socialist thinking being put into practice, Wall Street, the CIA, MI6 and Mossad will all be on his back, the financial community will rack up Britain’s cost of borrowing, and the currency dealers will crucify Sterling. But it’s an academic question: every single poll since he became Leader has told the same story: mathematically – and with more effort from UKIP plus the SNP and Scottish Tories – Corbyn Labour hasn’t a hope in Hell of forming a majority Government.
Ultimately, JC has none of the credentials to lead Britain into the future with a fresh attitude. He is a 1960s IS radical preserved in amber, and thus unable to move on…or indeed, move at all. He has been fortunate enough to face foolish enemies and naively desperate voters. But that won’t last: if the media Right and the anti-Brexit Blairites don’t get him, then the immigration question (and his chequered past) will.
A more rounded view about Antisemitism and JC
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2018/879-without-merit-jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-norman-finkelstein-and-noam-chomsky.html
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Once your in the poker of politics you have to play the cards your dealt ‘ an honest and principled man ‘ won’t get beyond the rank of private
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John betraying how comfortably off he is. If John felt disenfranchised and marginalised by decades of shmendreks like Gidiot, IDS or revolting putz DC he would quickly pipe a different tune. Corbynistas are decent people, and what we are asking for is integrity. You can sneer at JC as much as you are capable, but at the end of the day this is about class.
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You know nothing about my personal circumstances, but choose the evidence-free route of envy politics to “prove” your case.
Not all of us vote with our wallets: I live in France & stand to lose bigtime from Brexit, but I will vote for it again and again for reasons you Lefist ideologues will never grasp. ‘Corbynistas are decent people’? So why is it that every time I’ve tried to engage with them, I was answered with a hailstorm of spittle and obscene foam? No matter how much I present clear evidence that Jesus of Islington has the integrity of a female praying mantis, you ignore it all.Enjoy your role in the marching robots of 19th century: you are a minor footnote in history. JW
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John,
You don’t consider the coming financial crisis. With no room to cut interest rates by the necessary 3-5%, the crisis will turn into a depression. Assuming that it happens while the Tories are still in power, they will receive the deserved blame – at least from the electorate if not the corporate media.
The crisis will open a debate about economic and other policies in the way that the industrial unrest of the 70s did. This will give Corbyn (and others) an opportunity to propose radical changes to a British electorate that is prepared to listen.
The other question is whether deep down Corbyn believes in Marxism and is prepared to nationalise the banks and get involved in the details of economic policy. I suspect that deep down he would like to use ‘People’s QE’ to finance more spending for a few years and then to retire on a generous Parliamentary pension financed by the capitalist state.
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Well Chris, that’s the first time anyone’s ever accused me of not taking economic crisis into account! Most people claim I egg it on too much.
Of course the crisis is inevitable (short of global pandemic or nuclear war) but it doesn’t follow by any means that distraught Tory voters will move to Labour. It depends on so many factors – how organised 50s women are, whether Farage returns to revitalise UKIP or its successor, what the Labour Right/Centre Party sleazebags do, how ordinary people react to May selling them out, and whether the quietest Tory Brexit coup plotters in history ever get off the pot. JW
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I got over 86,000 up ticks for slagging of Islam on Breitbart.com. I’ve visited often and often was top comment.
Alas, that ended as few days ago when I suggested that rather than being the “world’s eternal victims” the State of Israel is Not to be admired.
Of course, I backed my suggestions up with real world examples.
Breitbart.com BANNED ME.
If you want to know who holds all of the Power, seek those who BAN critisism.
I pointed out links that “suggested” that well to do Jewish folks in the UK are paying an army of “researchers” lots of cash to forensically examine every aspect or JC’S long life and they pay Double for antisemitic farts.
I made links to historical documents that “suggested” Palestinian Zionists paid and supported NAZI Germany to upset German and European Jews “enough” to make them give up their Very Comfortable Lives in Europe and emigrate with all of their CAPITAL to Palestine.
I suggested that the main reason for flooding Europe and the West today with unhappy Muslims was to make today’s western Jews feel as threatened and as persecuted as the 1933 Zionists encouraged Hitler to “encourage” European Jews to Return Home – to Safety and the recently Official Home of the Jews.
There are MANY Religious fanatics around the world, Not all of them are Muslim.
Jewish scripture demands all the Jews return to ancient Palestine – to hold BOTH sides of the River Jordan.
Trump just gave them a head start.
Europe’s ever increasing millions of angry, antisemitic Muslim “refugees” will force the Rear.
There are Religious Fanatics EVERYWHERE.
I got 86,000+ up ticks for criticising Islam.
I got BANNED for criticising Israel.
If you want to know who holds all of the Power, seek those who BAN critisism.
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Claptrap. Corbyn is not an extremist. The extremists are the people who want war rather than peace, and will do anything to stop the UK getting a politician like Corbyn rather than the usual warmongering stooge for the US and Israel.
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In my book Tom, ANY politician who won’t reject violence is an extremist. Sorry, but that’s how it is for me – it applies to May, Macron, Trump, Hamas, Neetanyahu et al. If you want to dismiss carefully assembled research on how shifty & ruthless Corbyn & Momentum are as claptrap, this probably isn’t the site for you. JW
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as i,ve said previously he,s been a lifelong politician who has achieved feck all and never likely to,whilst may/co are complete wankers,wheres the choice?
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The problem defined succinctly, mro JW
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We should hardly be surprised if Mr Goody Two-Shoes has feet of clay when our entire political system is composed of unglazed earthenware fired by ideological zeal and expediency rather than a philosophical understanding of cause and effect.
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Thin stuff.
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Christ, I’d hate to see your definition of ‘thick’. JW
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Puzzled why Corbyn in his interviews did not simply state that the Munich terrorists were not buried in Tunisia where he was laying a wreath, but in Lybia-that would have thrown a spanner in the MSM works. But he didnt-he looked shifty eyed and petulant. Didnt he know?
Cant help feeling a tad sympathetic at the tidal wave of Tory and establishment bilge being thrown at him-I think it will seriously backfire.
Notwithstanding Corbyns inescapable baggage from the past. If he had any sapience he would have diluted the baggage by honouring Jewish victims (if only for his own selfish PR reasons) sometime in the last 2 years.
(Shakes head in disbelief)
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Sometimes a phrase makes me think and smile. This one did. “Just because the media are out to get him doesn’t mean he’s innocent.” Hehe!
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The thing with Corbyn is he’s as amazed as the rest of us that he’s the Leader of the Opposition and a potential for the highest office in the land.
Realise this and you can then understand how his history is littered with political errors that no person with the real long term ambition to be Prime Minister would every remotely consider getting involved with.
Sadly, while there is a desperate need for an intelligent and sensible Labour party to genuinely challenge the Tories for Government, as long as Corbyn is in charge I just cannot ever see anything but the Conservatives in control.
Finally remember Labour’s slogan.
For the Many, not the Few. When they realise “the Many” needs to be replaced by ‘Everyone’ then they will have realised the socialist utopian dream is over and a more centrist policy is the way to go.
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John. That particular ceremony was for victims of the 1985 Israeli bombing raid – people killed included Palestinian and Tunisian civilians.
The others in the photograph are Palestinian Authority officials based in Ramallah. Their headquarters in Ramallah were recently visited by a delegation of Labour Friends of Israel during their visit to Israel.
I’m sure there were some ‘other’ graves nearby. That’s the nature of those places.
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You’re right Ziggy but the Spectator tonight is still saying Black September Munich killers were being remembered, and Corbyn isn’t denying it. Which is odd. JW
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@john
“I like Jeremy because I believe (like him) that we are all equal, from any country. Everybody wants a roof over their head, food in their stomach, live in peace, and nurture their children,
What’s wrong with that?”
Nothing is wrong with that.
The problem is how to achieve it.
Socialism hates those with enterprise, creativity and the willingness to work hard in order to create personal wealth.
Introduce it and just watch as the enthusiasm to create that wealth just drains away as you see your taxes increase just to be redistributed to those who’d rather sit watching TV all day.
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Corbyn: I was there when the wreaths were laid, that’s pretty obvious. There were many others who were witness to that, I witnessed many others laying wreaths.
Reporter: Did you lay the wreath?
Corbyn: I laid one wreath along with many other people in memory of all those who have died in the awful attack in 1985, which, as I keep repeating and you seem not to understand, was condemned by the whole world,
Reporter: There were also graves there for people who were killed in 1992…
Corbyn: Yes, there are other people in that cemetery, as there are indeed in many other cemeteries around the world. But a wreath was laid in memory of those who died.
That clears that up then…
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I can’t say I agree with all that you write here and even if I did he’s still the best of the bunch and would absolutely trounce that clown Johnson in any election. I know the choice isn’t pretty and God alone knows how we got here, but the Tories have to go the sooner the better.
If it helps think of the pure comedy value a Corbyn government would bring and to quote the very lamented Douglas Adams, Corbyn is mostly harmless.
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Corbyn is but the puppet on the string and uses the word democracy to hide his marxist inclinations. Such is the lack of discipline in the other mainstream party that he has perfected the ability to skate on thin ice. He does get an easy ride from the BBC political wing – six references about Bojo and the burka article (incl. one from the Muslim Council of Britain – the brotherhood in disguise) nothing about the Jewish debacle Corbyn has become involved. Just a short comment on your previous article.
Julia Salazar seems well indoctrinated in marxist ideology selling the inequality of the Capitalist system against the pure equality of her own brand of marxism. I wonder how she sells the death of 6,000,000 farming peasants and the Kulak in the quest for equality or does her time at Columbia University not include Soviet history.
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He is a 1960s IS radical preserved in amber
Spot on observation there John- and you are also right to compare the grilling Corbyn is getting over his ‘perceived’ antisemitism with the similar grilling BoJo the Supreme Opportunist is getting re his alleged ‘islamophobia’. Both stories maintain traction in the media (admittedly it is the ‘silly season’) because assorted lobby groups continue to pick away at the bones. There is one difference however- the Maybot as Tory Leader hasn’t told the muslim activists where to get off whereas Corbyn (in his rejoinder to Netanyahu) has effectively done just that to the Israel lobby- and this will probably increase his appeal beyond the hard left to some more centrist Labour voters who don’t take kindly to a foreign leader calling out the Leader as a bigot (an accusation that is a bit rich in any case coming from Bibi N).
BTW I think you’re wrong to call Lord Sugar a ‘lifelong Labour’ voter, Doubtless his family background was solidly Labour but when he first came to prominence flogging his cheap computers in the 80s I think he was happy with the ‘Thatcherite’ label some applied to him. Of course he was soon back in the Labour fold after having the pants charmed off him by Blair, but he now seems to be re-calibrating back to the Tories (only Brexit – of which he disapproves- seems to be stopping him heading back to the blue corner).
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I’m not a Corbynista.
But apparently.
There are no ‘Munich terrorists’ in the same cemetery.
Of the eight terrorist invoved with the Munich Massacare. Five were killed and their bodies claimed by and burried in Libya. Three survived and were later exchanged for other hostages. Of these two later died in Lebanon of “disputed” causes and the whereabouts of the third is unknown but if alive he is believed to be hiding in Africa. It seems that none of the Black September terrorist who were engaged in the Munich Massacer of 1972 are burried in Tunisia.
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Thnx Ziggy, I’m aware of that, but I think Corby admitted that the ceremony was partly to honour them, regardless of which bit of turf they lie beneath. JW
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well he IS a politician and its a filthy job … but I agree with you about Kate Hoey, its a discraceful event.
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Excellent analysis of his political credentials and with no need to mention his personality failings which appear to me to include lack of intelligence, humour and work ethic.
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I like Jeremy because I believe (like him) that we are all equal, from any country. Everybody wants a roof over their head, food in their stomach, live in peace, and nurture their children,
What’s wrong with that?
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If it looks like duck, quacks like a duck, then there is a fair chance that it is a duck.
Corbyn of the allotment is up to his head in manure.
May I be the first to congratulate him on his upcoming retirement.
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Well said John. I cannot disagree with a single word which is a mite unusual but very pleasing to see others duplicate my own opinion of another pretender.
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He would make for an interesting psychological analysis: Champion of the downtrodden on the one hand; Islamist ally on the other; is unfailingly polite to his colleagues while harbouring a hard Stalinist edge; begs for forgiveness from the Israel lobby yet denies the reality of Labour’s role in the mass grooming gang outrages.
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