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Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the British left… — 9 Comments

1. Losing an election to Corbyn is like losing your girl to an eunuch – bloody unlikely. The forces that have lined up against Corbyn is amazing. This week the Archbishop of Canterbury, Chief Rabbi and Hindu Council have all come out against anti-Semitism in the Labour party.

2. UK: Why Boris will win
   15 November 2019
   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7691325/DOMINIC-SANDBROOK-Boris-Johnson-poshest-working-class-hero-Winston-Churchill.html

   Nobody doubts that Johnson, who wrote a book about Churchill, quoted Rudyard Kipling when he visited Burma and criticised Barack Obama for disliking the British Empire, is a patriot to his fingertips.

   And given that Corbyn has consistently supported Britain’s enemies, sympathised with the IRA and even talked of dismantling the Armed Forces, it is hardly surprising that so many patriotic Labour voters are planning to jump ship.

   But there is more to it than Brexit, or even an anti- Corbyn backlash. The truth, as almost everybody in politics grudgingly admits, is that Johnson has the X Factor.

   Six years ago, novelist Jonathan Coe wrote a remarkably prescient essay arguing that the key moment in Johnson’s rise was his first appearance on the BBC One panel show Have I Got News For You. For Coe, very far from being a Boris fan, this was the moment the future Prime Minister cemented his public image as a ‘loveable, self-mocking buffoon’, an everyman rather than an Etonian.

   He made people laugh, but he laughed at himself, too, pretending to be stupider than he actually was. And although the audience knew exactly what he was doing, they laughed nonetheless.

   In an age of robotic, bland politicians, frightened of looking silly or saying anything controversial, that made him stand out.

   Even Tony Blair does not like what the Labour party has become

   TONY Blair today sensationally revealed he does not want Labour to win the election – and warned a Jeremy Corbyn government would pose a risk to the UK.

   The former Prime Minister hammered the leftie Labour boss’ revolutionary politics and urged Brits to vote tactically for moderate candidates, even if that means voting Tory.

   In a blistering intervention, Labour’s most successful ever leader accused Mr Corbyn and Boris Johnson of both “peddling fantasies”.

   And he suggested he hopes no party gets a majority on December 12 and that Britain gets another hung parliament – an outcome which would mean yet more political deadlock.

   He told a Reuters event in London: “The truth is, the public aren’t convinced either main party deserve to win this election outright.

   “They’re peddling two sets of fantasies and both, as majority governments, pose a risk it would be unwise for the country to take.”

   He added: “I don’t think a majority government of either side is a good thing.”

3. Labour accuses UK PM of plot to ‘sell’ NHS to Trump

   Britain’s main opposition Labour party on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of plotting a “toxic” deal with President Donald Trump to allow US pharmaceutical companies access to the state health service.

   Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn held up what he claimed were 451 pages of previously secret documents that proved Johnson was seeking to put the National Health Service (NHS) on the table in a post-Brexit trade deal.

   Britain goes to the polls on December 12, with Johnson hoping to secure a majority to be able to push through his divorce deal to take the country out of the European Union.

   However, the funding and running of the NHS is a recurring election topic.

   Johnson’s Conservatives accused a “desperate” Corbyn of “out-and-out lying” by peddling “conspiracy theory-fuelled nonsense”.

   Corbyn had previously obtained a redacted version of the documents.

   But the Labour leader said the unredacted version catalogued six meetings between US and UK officials since 2017, detailing “what they (the Conservatives) don’t want you to know”.

   “The US is demanding that our NHS is on the table in negotiations for a toxic deal,” Corbyn told reporters in central London.

   The sale of the NHS was the government’s “secret agenda”, he added, warning that the coming election was “a fight for the survival of the National Health Service as a public service”.

   “It’s already being talked about in secret. That could lead to runaway privatisation of our health service,” he added.

   https://news.yahoo.com/labour-accuses-uk-pm-plot-sell-nhs-trump-142024719.html

   i dont know what runaway privatization is, but i am dying to have them explain it

4. My guess “runaway privatization” must mean the Contract Company calls the shots & they won t be able to give *do nothing jobs* to their favorites.

5. It’s interesting to read liberals on this antisemitism stuff. They are really, really, REALLY in denial about how much of it exists in the, shall we say, “oppressed” peoples of the world and how common it is for criticism of Israel in academia to do more than just flirt with it.

   As best I can tell, there is no one policing antisemitism on the Left and it’s not hard to see what inevitably is going to happen when Jews and white Christians are the only groups you are allowed to seriously criticize.

   Mike

6. Jeremy Corbyn has STILL not renounced his support for Nicolas Maduro. He thinks that what the Maduro regime is doing there is just fine.

   https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1209576/general-election-2019-jeremy-corbyn-boris-johnson-socialist-venezuela-spt

7. As a committed Anglo-phobe I hope Cobryn wins.

   Those perfidious, lecturing, hectoring, nanny-state Lobsterbacks deserve it.

8. After watching Corbyn’s BBC interview, one is reminded, yet again, of the double talking, two faced, weave and dodge, typical politician; one that refuses to answer in a straightforward manner a straightforward question.
   And then some wonder how a Trump got elected.

   The question no one poses is how on earth did the British Labor Party select Corbyn as their leader??
   This is really disturbing because it demonstrates that there are many politicians (at least in the UK) and presumably many voters that support the two faced, anti-semite, Marxist agenda of Corbyn.

   Of course, we here in the USA have nothing to brag about. The voters selected twice as their president, an individual who in his entire adult life never held a real job and whose contempt for and about everything USA was front and center.
   Think about that.

   And look at who the demokrats wish to lead the nation; apparently the front runners are a corrupt, senile old man who has spent his entire life in govt and has achieved nothing at all other than to line his own pockets; a dishonest, mendacious individual who literally lied at every turn to advance her career ; and a Brooklyn communist who had no problem celebrating the “accomplishments” of a regime that earlier in its history exterminated more people than did Hitler (and, oh, that’s right, this guy also never held a real job in his life).

   And there are plenty of supporters of these three, and that is the truly frightening part.

9. JohnTyler: The question no one poses is how on earth did the British Labor Party select Corbyn as their leader??

   It was a strange confluence of events.

   First this happened: Commentators in the media widely predicted that Corbyn would struggle to pass the threshold of 35 nominations from Labour MPs required to become a candidate. However, he managed narrowly—and at the last minute—to secure sufficient support from parliamentary colleagues, with 36 nominations in total. Around 12 of the MPs who nominated him actually supported other candidates, but “lent” him their support in order to widen the contest. [Wikipedia]

   Then this happened: Following a rule change under Miliband, members of the public who supported Labour’s aims and values could join the party as “registered supporters” for £3 and be entitled to vote in the election…. The party’s membership increased sharply, both during the leadership campaign and following his election. [Wikipedia]

   The influx of new party members created a groundswell and momentum that pushed Corbyn to a landslide victory.

   For a similar story from Canada see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Clark#Progressive_Conservative_leadership_convention_1976

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