What a surprise to find former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn back in the news again, visiting Norway where he was ‘keynote speaker’ at the launch of a new communist party, which opposes NATO and opposes arming Ukraine against the fascist dictator Vladimir Putin’s murderous invasion. They were inspired by Corbyn’s ‘Peace and Justice movement’. Of course he was there. That’s what Corbyn does, the very same Corbyn who, when he was Labour’s accidental leader, suggested Russia should be asked to confirm whether they poisoned Sergei and Yulia Skripal with the Russian nerve agent Novichok before assuming they were responsible. But things got much worse when Corbyn allowed himself to be photographed with Hans Jørgen Lysglimt Johansen.
I haven’t come across him before and I am certainly hoping he’s not my long lost Uncle Hans given what I now know about him. He has some ‘interesting’ views.
- Hans is a strong supporter of Donald trump
- He’s an antisemite and all round racist
- He’s a holocaust denier
- He supported the manifesto of Anders Breivik
- He supported apartheid in South Africa
- He’s an anti-vaxxer
To all intents and purposes, Hans is a neo Nazi and here he is posing with Jeremy Corbyn, who he refers to as “a good man speaking the truth”.
I’m not sure that this is the kind of endorsement Corbyn would welcome, but then he does appear to be the unluckiest anti-racist campaigner in the world, referring, as he did to Hamas and Hezbollah as being “friends”, a term he later regretted using. Repeatedly being photographed with senior IRA officials when people were being maimed and killed and allegedly placing a wreath to commemorate terrorists in Tunisia back in 2014, explaining he was “present” for wreath-laying but I “don’t think I was actually involved” Phew, glad we cleared that one up, then.
The best explanation for this latest photograph is that Corbyn had no idea who this bloke was and that Mr Johansen sidled in, saying what a great bloke Magic Grandpa was and inviting him to be part of a selfie, to which the old boy happily agreed. Even for a man like Corbyn, who is almost always on the wring side of history, it is hard to believe he would knowingly pose for a jolly photo with a card-carrying Nazi. No, he was naive, as you would expect a 74 year old career politician to be. And as we have pointed out before, Corbyn is just unlucky as to who he shares a stage with.
We all have some skeletons in the closet, don’t we? I once sat alone in the same radio studio as Richard Littlejohn, admittedly long before the days of selfie sticks, so I’m not exactly whiter than white. But dear old Jezza, the man who handed Boris Johnson a landslide parliamentary majority, he’s so unlucky, it’s almost untrue. Actually, it’s not untrue at all. Once a wrong ‘un, always a wrong ‘un.
