That paragon of national journalistic virtue, The Daily Mail, has brought you the
scoop beyond all scoops. It has caught the Leader of the Opposition in the
act!... Yes!... I wish it were possible to reveal this to the British people
more gently. He has actually nodded off during a train journey. Call the
police!... Jeremy Corbyn was actually at the end of a long hard day. He'd been
to Copeland to watch his party lose a seat in a by-election, one they had previously
held safely since 1934. They lost it to the government too which is almost
unheard of in a by-election. He did what railway passengers do all the time.
The warmth and motion of the train cabin combined with exhaustion sends them
off to sleep. I'm sure Tony Blair used to do the same, except he did it on the
back of his chauffeur-driven limousine. The British tabloid press seem to have
developed an unhealthy obsession with the natural bodily functions of Jeremy
Corbyn. Two years ago they were measuring the angle of his head as he bowed
during the Remembrance Day service. The Labour Party are in a very precarious
position at the moment. They have always had a massive problem with infighting
since the Thatcher era when the leadership initiated a shift to the centre in
which old left-wingers like Tony Benn, and Corbyn himself, were relegated from
the vanguard to the margins. Corbyn's election as leader in 2015 is something
of a backlash against that. Very little has changed since the days of "Foot
and Benn disease". There are still catastrophic splits in the party and
this is what has caused its failure at Copeland and its low performance in
recent polls. Corbyn has been blamed personally for Copeland by people both
inside and outside the party and that is not fair. Let's not forget that on the
same day there was also a by-election for Stoke-on-Trent Central which Labour
won. Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4265578/Jeremy-Corbyn-caught-nodding-train-twice.html.
Despite being called "unelectable", Jeremy Corbyn
has won a leadership election and the vote of confidence after last year's attempt
to unseat him. A lot of his proposals are ones most people support, like proper
care in the NHS and public investment in the railways that make him so sleepy.
I can't help admiring Corbyn. I disagree with a lot of what he stands for, but
I can't stop myself warming to any statesman who is in politics out of a sense
of principle. When you consider how many greedy psychopathic blackguards
populate Parliament, anybody with a brain in his head, a heart in his chest and
a pair of balls in his pants stands out like a jewel in a dung heap. The
problem is Corbyn is an old left leader, but the middle management consists
primarily of the lowest breed of new left crypto-Marxist scum. Diane Abbott for example, is somebody
I find utterly repulsive. There is a mixed old and new left membership pool beneath
them. Some of them reached that point where they feel forced into deciding
between pragmatism and idealism. In this video, Owen Jones very evasively and
apologetically calls for people not to support Corbyn because it will mean
Labour won't win the next general election, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGhOTihjHlk.
David Icke talked about this same situation when he was involved with the Green
Party in the 1980's. During a period of high popularity the Greens divided into
two factions known as the "Fundies" (fundamentalists) and the
"Realoes" (Realists). The Fundies insisted on the party sticking to
its original constitution where the Realoes wanted to renege on a few of its principles
because it might get them more votes. This contradictory dilemma goes: "I
have ideals, but there's no point having them unless I'm in power to enact
them, so I'll compromise on a few of them to get into power." The danger
with this line of thought is that it's a slippery slope and at the bottom sits
Tony Blair. Peter Hitchens warned the Conservative Party against doing the same
thing. "They'd behead the Queen in Trafalgar
Square on live TV if it got them into
office." he said. This kind of corruption can happen almost without us
knowing. If we think we really can juggle principles with political expediency
we end up losing all of them. I think the political structures of conformist
society are deliberately designed to lure people in and disarm them like this. If
you have principles then stick to them. Have confidence in persuading the
people that yours is the right way. I posted this as a comment under Owen
Jones' video: "What are you asking
for, Owen? A decent Labour politician who will NOT be 'unelectable' in the eyes
of the media? We used to have one of those. We said: 'Just let Labour get power
by any means necessary, then the man who did it will fulfil every whim of the
sentiment we expressed during our years in opposition.' We believed him. He was
called Tony Blair. Why don't you just take a chance on somebody who breaches
the conventional political norms and stick by him. You have radicalism and
revolutionaryism. Why are you abandoning him because the media say some nasty
things about him. Are you seriously waiting for a decent politician the
mainstream media will LIKE!?" Jeremy Corbyn is a part of what the
mainstream media has christened "populism". In this sense he is very
like the Vote Leave campaign and Trump, although he'd hate to think of himself
that way. I personally see this as a very encouraging symptom, for reasons I've
explained before, and therefore I hope Corbyn will keep his place as Labour
leader.
See here for
background: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/jeremy-corbyns-seat-to-be-abolished.html.
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