I cannot begin to express the levels of contempt I feel for Jeremy Corbyn. We all know about his sordid past and his friendships with terrorists, the explosion of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party since he took over, his decision to go on holiday during the EU referendum in 2016 – the list of shame goes on forever. In just over a month, the country is set to jump off a cliff, leaving the EU without a deal, jeopardising the jobs, the hopes and dreams of millions of people and what does Corbyn do? He goes on a march in Broxtowe, the constituency of the former Tory MP Anna Soubry.
This is Corbyn all over. Our political system is completely broken, with the Conservatives hurtling at top speed to the hard right territory vacated by Ukip, Labour retreating to reheated 1980s Bennism, campaigning on the politics of envy. Thousands of people are literally homeless, millions more politically homeless and Corbyn stays in his comfort zone with his cult following desperate for selfies, desperate to applaud his terribly delivered speeches. He is becoming the King Canute of politics. Remove the e and the a from Canute, rearrange the letters and you have what I really think of him.
It is clearly not an accident Labour has chosen Anna Soubry’s constituency for Corbyn’s latest ego trip. It is not just that hers is a marginal seat, it’s because Soubry has put her principles above her career to take a stand against the broken model of two-party politics. Sitting as an independent, alongside people with whom she has in the past disagreed upsets those who hate the idea of politicians working together to save the country from disaster. I’d go further. I see the trip to Broxtowe as little more than an attempt to bully Soubry and by definition everyone who dares to offer an alternative point of view.
I am told that I should vote for Corbyn’s wretched Labour Party because it would not be as bad as the Tories. Christ, what an incentive that is: Vote Corbyn, we’ll make less of a mess than Theresa May. I don’t even think that’s true. Do people really think the likes of Corbyn, McDonnell, Abbott and co are the people to make this country better? I am not sure the socialism in one country he so supported in Venezuela has improved the lives of people in that country. Yes, they stand for different things. But I can’t see how lending my vote to a far left party, whose policies are made by an actual millionaire Stalinist, Seumas Milne, will make this country better. Corbyn has literally no experience of power, apart from his experience in the 1970s of chairing the Haringey housing department. I am not convinced that this is ideal preparation for government.
The truth hurts. Apart from his friendships with murderers, holocaust deniers and dictators worldwide, Corbyn is a pacifist. He would have been happy to leave Saddam to commit genocide in Iraq, to allow the genocide in the Balkans to continue, to allow his friend Assad to kill and torture thousands of his own citizens in Syria. He would disarm this country. And he would never blame Putin for what happened in Salisbury. And people ask me to support a party led by a man like that on the grounds that he would not be as bad as May.
Corbyn’s Labour is an ugly cesspit of filth, an anti-Semitic party run by rich, sometimes aristocratic know-nothings and bullies who pretend they know what’s best for the lumpen proletariat. They demand political purity, not a broad church, and to them it matters not if the Tories win because it won’t affect their privileged lifestyles.
Labour marches in Broxtowe today, oblivious to the real needs of working people, unable or unwilling to compromise, to destroy the real enemy which to them is the mainstream left and to join in an orgy of love to a false idol, a man who has always been on the wrong side of history and has never had an original idea in his life.
I know who I won’t be voting for at the next general election and that’s certainly the Tories, who I would never, under any circumstances ever, vote for, nor Labour who I have voted for in every election since 1979. I don’t know who I will be voting for either although I hope in due course it will become clearer.
Enjoy your march in Broxtowe, comrades. You will not persuade a single voter to vote Labour but you will smooth Corbyn’s over-inflated ego. And for a fleeting moment in time you can bask in the delusion that one day he will be king. You’re wrong. He won’t. And it will be your fault because you allowed it to happen.
