Luckily, I have a long memory so I can remember when the Labour Party was relevant and understood the concerns of “ordinary working people” (© T May). It formed the NHS, was key in giving us our nuclear deterrent, it gave us the minimum wage, it was internationalist in outlook. My, how that has changed under the dead hand of Jeremy Corbyn.
The latest wheeze is to hold a series of “Concerts for Jeremy”, where greats like Paul Weller, who still have £10 million or so to struggle by with after paying private school fees for his five children, lines up with a series of unknowns in support of the dear leader. Doubtless, Corbyn himself will turn up at each show and make a dreary, vacuous speech (he does no other kind of speech) to his cult following. Meanwhile, more men, women and children (and Red Cross volunteers) will die horrible deaths in Aleppo.
I mention Aleppo because it is emerging as more a less an international crime that the west in general and the UK in particular is doing nothing to help save the people and to end the conflict. Corbyn is a founder member of the Stop the War coalition, which is nothing more than a coalition of the anti-west left. This is an organisation that campaigns only against America and the UK and never against terrorists, murderers and tyrants elsewhere. This is the world in which Corbyn feels happiest.
Have you seen the desperately upsetting pictures emerging from Aleppo? I have and they make me sad and angry in equal measure. It has taken Boris Johnson, of all people, to do Corbyn’s job for him in urging people to protest at the Russian embassy. So what does Corbyn do? He speaks at a rally for a front organisation of the rape apologists of the SWP. What do his friends do? They hold a few gigs, presumably in order to soothe their egos and prove how right on they are. These, I would suggest, are the usual affluent chattering classes for whom it doesn’t matter who is in government and, presumably, the horrors of Aleppo are someone else’s problem.
Yes, I am personalising my attacks on Corbyn. Laughably, farcically, he is the leader of her majesty’s loyal opposition despite his clear lack of suitability to carry out the role beyond a level of utter incompetence and ineptitude. Swanning up and down the country, speaking to people who already agree with him, lying about a train being full when it wasn’t, bathing in adulation from his cult following and doing absolutely nothing of any use, especially when it comes to the obliteration of a city under siege.
For those who believe that Labour is on the way back following yet another shadow cabinet reshuffle that as usual takes forever to complete (Corbyn is far more concerned by internal politics than the rest of the world: the rest of the world can wait), then just look at the shambles of his front bench where, pathetically, the likes of Emily Thornberry and Diane Abbott hold two of the major shadow offices of state.
Labour, under Corbyn, doesn’t care about world conflict, unless they believe America and the west is doing wrong. There was no Stop the War when Saddam was murdering thousands of his own people and the people who lead this sorry organisation supported the IRA campaigns of terror and opposed our intervention in the Balkans.
If we absent ourselves from the destruction of Aleppo, standing to one side, closing our eyes and covering our ears, what is our purpose in life? Jeremy Corbyn and the comrades have only one purpose in life: control over the machinery of the Labour Party and that’s it. Inward looking, driven only by securing the control of the UK’s serious party of working people in order to turn it into a protest movement.
If Labour cannot stand up against tyranny, against fascist dictators, then what the hell is it for? A few gigs to soothe Corbyn’s ego will not save the children of Aleppo.
