The usual suspects on Twitter want Jeremy Corbyn to drop out because, "He has made his point." Well, Liz Kendall has failed to make her point. It is she, if anyone, who ought to drop out.
I hear from someone who was at yesterday's meeting of the Labour National Executive Committee that the most common age of new party members is 18.
They were born in the year that Tony Blair became Prime Minister, and they cannot have had any meaningful political consciousness before David Cameron and George Osborne entered Downing Street.
Who are the dinosaurs now?
It was a wonder to behold the live, televised nervous breakdown of John McTernan, Allegra Stratton and whoever was presenting Newsnight (it is now hard to tell, and impossible to care).
In all fairness, that same programme included a miraculous report on how Corbyn and the newspaper for which he writes had been right all along about Ukraine. Not those words, but very much that story.
If Corbyn did become the Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, then might the paper that carried his weekly column, and the Parliamentary Correspondent of which is a member not merely of the Press Gallery but even of the very Lobby, finally hope to be less than entirely ignored by, for example, newspaper previews on late night news programmes?
Its unique coverage of trade union campaigns, of the peace movement and of otherwise neglected parts of the world, as well as of aspects of British history, might then intrude on the consciousness of something approaching the mainstream. Dare to dream.
In what many of us strongly suspect to have been a radio edit, 15 certificate version of his words, Max Shanly has indicated that, under Corbyn, a number of Labour Party staffers would be given their cards. As soon as Tom Watson is Deputy Leader, at least one of them will in any case have all the time in the world in which to polish his MBE.
Still hoping against hope that Andy Burnham will pull something out, I leave you with the thought of certain apparatchiki, who have never worked outside politics, being forced to hawk their thin CVs and their unattractive personalities door to door as the nights drew in and the temperature dropped.
I for one would have a very, very, very Merry Christmas this year. And next year. And the year after that.
If Corbyn did become the Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, then might the paper that carried his weekly column, and the Parliamentary Correspondent of which is a member not merely of the Press Gallery but even of the very Lobby, finally hope to be less than entirely ignored by, for example, newspaper previews on late night news programmes?
Its unique coverage of trade union campaigns, of the peace movement and of otherwise neglected parts of the world, as well as of aspects of British history, might then intrude on the consciousness of something approaching the mainstream. Dare to dream.
In what many of us strongly suspect to have been a radio edit, 15 certificate version of his words, Max Shanly has indicated that, under Corbyn, a number of Labour Party staffers would be given their cards. As soon as Tom Watson is Deputy Leader, at least one of them will in any case have all the time in the world in which to polish his MBE.
Still hoping against hope that Andy Burnham will pull something out, I leave you with the thought of certain apparatchiki, who have never worked outside politics, being forced to hawk their thin CVs and their unattractive personalities door to door as the nights drew in and the temperature dropped.
I for one would have a very, very, very Merry Christmas this year. And next year. And the year after that.
Gerry Adams Tweets a picture of himself with "Comrade" Jeremy Corbyn.
ReplyDeleteCorbyn also wants to give back the Falkland Islands, he says.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11754303/Jeremy-Corbyn-sips-coffee-with-comrades-Gerry-Adams-and-Martin-McGuiness-in-Parliament.html
Still, I agree with Peter Hitchens.
Let's by all means have Corbyn as Labour leader; with the quid pro quo that we get a patriot on the other side.
The Queen could have done that, showing them eating at her table, or McGuinness staying overnight at her house. There is nothing more Establishment than Sinn Féin.
DeleteIf he was still around, you could elect George Adamski.
ReplyDelete"Keir Hardie baroda nakto".
Reagan once claimed to have seen a UFO.
DeleteThe Press claimed recently that Jerry Adams trampolines naked in his garden with his dog
ReplyDeleteevery morning. "We are not amused".
As I recall, they got that one from the man himself. Read his Twitter to see that he has well and truly lost it in his old age.
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