The pathetic nature of Jeremy Corbyn’s version of Labour has again been exposed, this time by the ramblings of one of his key allies, shadow justice minister Richard Burgon. Launching an attack on the new home secretary, Sajid Javid, Burgon pointed out that Javid reportedly earned £3 million as an investment banker before being elected an MP, as if this was a bad thing. Well, perhaps it is a bad thing that someone can earn such a large sum of money when over a million people use food banks but coming from the Posh Boys who control Labour these days, I sense a whiff of hypocrisy in the air.
Corbyn’s director of communications and strategy, Seumas Milne is a multimillionaire who attended Winchester College and Balliol Collee Oxford. The Momentum organisation within the Labour Party is owned and controlled by multimillionaire Jon Lansman, was schooled at a private school, in this case Highgate, and went to Cambridge university. Corbyn’s main advisor is Andrew Drummond-Murray who comes from the aristocracy and went to Worth School, an independent boarding school in Sussex. Drummond-Murray’s daughter is employed by Corbyn as an advisor. Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, believe it or not, went to Grammar School and attended Cambridge University and sent her son to a private school. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell went to Great Yarmouth Grammar School, followed by an independent boarding school, ending up at Brunel university and now employs Corbyn’s son as his chief of staff. Corbyn himself went to Grammar school and lived in a manor house. There is a lot more where this came from.
Most of the comrades worship the late Tony Benn MP, who was dedicated at Westminster School and went to New College Oxford. Can you see what’s happening here? Whilst it is very fair to point out that the Conservative Party stands for and represents the better off in society, it is a bit rich of Corbyn’s Labour to attack them on class grounds, since many of Corbyn’s top team represent the same upper class. In some ways, they are even worse. We know, for example, that much of Corbyn’s support comes from the comfortable middle classes, for whom the idea of a Labour government is a nice idea but scarcely important with regard to their own lives. If Labour wins, they can celebrate with the best Champagne, if Labour loses, they have even more money for Champagne. Hardship for many of them is more likely to be a 10 day skiing holiday instead of 14.
Burgon, who attended the not-remotely-elite St Johns College Oxford and is a qualified lawyer, so his digs at Javid’s wealth are literally a bit rich. Whilst I would genuinely like to see a more equal country, where you get by on the basis of what you know and not who you know, I am not sure Corbyn’s Labour, which is run by the millionaire private schoolboys and girls of the hard left, isn’t every bit as elitist as the Tories.
