And now a word from Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, the shadow attorney general.
The woman who was handed a peerage by Jeremy Corbyn for writing a report that indicated that there was no problem with anti-semitism in the Labour Party decided all of nine months ago to become a member. And today she was put up by the party to explain Labour’s disastrous defeat in the Copeland by election last week.
Part of it was down to disunity, she said. The party had been through two leadership campaigns in a year, the first of which had taken place before she even joined. But she’s probably been briefed by Corbyn’s inner circle by now. Better still, she added that the local constituency had been “neglected over some years”. It had certainly been neglected by Chakrabarti who had probably never even been to Copeland, or possibly never even heard of it, until local Labour MP Jamie Reed concluded he had had enough of Corbyn’s wretched leadership and then by election was called.
I wonder if this is the same Shami who, when the Article 50 bill was being debated in the House of Lords, had an important meeting with some Champagne at the Grosvenor Hotel? She probably didn’t need the £300 she would have been entitled to for just turning up and anyway, what was the point? Corbyn had already decided to whip his MPs into supporting Theresa May’s hard Brexit. Not for the first time was Shami referred to, quite literally, as a Champagne socialist.
But that’s the whole point of Corbyn’s Labour Party. They may well be a rag, tag and bobtail shower of Trotskyists, Stalinists and the more conventional hard left, but none of them represent the very working people they purport to do. We have mentioned before that almost all the people at the top of Corbyn’s Labour represent the chattering middle classes, privately or grammar school educated, as were their children, they rarely venture from the hipster strongholds of London, not having the slightest idea how regular folk live their lives.
Worse than that, they don’t care how regular folk live their lives. They say all the right things about achieving greater equality but only within the political purity they crave. There can be no compromise, no meeting in the middle to gain the trust of the very people who need a Labour government. It’s hardline ultra left socialism or it’s nothing.
I should not judge Chakrabarti by the way she looks, but I’ll say this: she looks shifty, acts shifty all because she is shifty. She must be very clever to have got a degree in law from the London school of economics and to have become a barrister. All well and good, but if she is that clever, ho come she doesn’t know what almost everyone else knows to be true: that her beloved leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is useless and not up to the job?
Above all, Chakrabarti’s very presence in the House of Lords has got the putrid stench of patronage about it. A peer chosen by a hard left politician who has vigorously opposed the House of Lords all his life, in thanks for a favourable report to get him out of a hole.
I find it impossible to take Chakrabarti seriously but then I find it impossible to take Corbyn seriously and I am a lifelong Labour supporter and, usually, a member. I’m finding it hard to imagine even voting for the party to which I belong, never mind actively campaigning for it. Politically, I am becoming homeless because I don’t have anything in common with the people who are running it (into the ground). And if I’m feeling like that, just imagine how the swing voters, those in the centre ground, will feel.
