A health warning is required on anything found on the Guido Fawkes website, but the story about Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite Champagne socialist, Baroness Shami Chakrabarti supping a large glass of fizz at the Grosvenor Hotel this afternoon, whilst the House of Lords debates Brexit, seems to be entirely true and so illustrative of Labour today.
Whilst we know that the Lords will give Theresa May the authority to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty, we also know that dear Shami was ennobled, following her report which confirmed there was no anti-Semitism in the Labour Party (even though there is), in order to fight Corbyn’s corner in the unelected House which the old boy opposes. But she can’t even be bothered to attend today. She has some Champers to quaff.
Champagne should not be too good for the workers, that’s for sure. Theresa May’s “ordinary working people” should not be confined to mere Prosecco and Cava. Apart from the fact that Champagne is bloody lovely, why shouldn’t the great unwashed be permitted to drink it? That’s not the point with Shami, but then she is hardly your ordinary working person.
Shami is wealthy, so wealthy that she is able to afford the £18,000 annual private school fees for her child, just like those paid by Diane Abbott for her child. The great leader Jeremy Corbyn went to a top grammar school, as did his son, as did John McDonnell, as did – oh, no – Diane Abbott again. These are the comrades who aspire to build a political movement but couldn’t manage more than a bowel movement.
We know that Corbyn and the hard left oppose the EU just like the far right oppose it, so he probably hasn’t even bothered to ask Shami to attend the House of Lords debate but then again, the tax free £300 a day, plus pension, she would otherwise trouser probably wouldn’t buy her a decent bottle of bubbly in the Grosvenor.
This is Labour today, the party of the chattering classes, the Champagne socialists, all grammar/private school ex Uni types, wondering why “ordinary working people” no longer see Labour as a serious party of government, not caring whether Labour can win a general election and almost certainly knowing it won’t. And it doesn’t matter to the comrades because they won’t be the ones to suffer when the country goes to hell in a handcart as we crash out of Europe.
Cheers, Shami. When you’ve topped up your glass, have a thought for those on the minimum wage, on zero hours contracts, on old people lying on trolleys in hospitals and everyone else Labour no longer seems to care about.
Nothing is too good for the working classes but the former protectors of the working classes don’t care about or even know the working classes. And they care about them just as little as Theresa May’s Tories.
