Tuesday 9 August 2016

Don't Mention The War

Only Jeremy Corbyn has received any supporting nominations from Constituency Labour Parties this evening.

They have rolled in from such Trotskyist citadels as the Vale of Clwyd, Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Bristol West (yes, Thangam Debbonaire's constituency), Rochford and Southend East, Havant, Romsey and Southampton North, Shipley, Harborough, Mid Sussex, Wyre Forest, North Wiltshire, Warwick and Leamington, and Penrith and the Border.

Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner chose not to make a supporting nomination, due to a tie.

At Penrith and the Border, I happen to know that the vote, at a meeting held at 24 hours' notice due to the obstructive activities of the party's national bureaucracy, was 70 to six, in a room full of the middle-aged and elderly inhabitants of England's most rural constituency.

There is every reason to assume similar scenes elsewhere.

Speaking of Cumbria, in the Carlisle constituency, which is Conservative-held, more than one in 90 people is now a member of the Labour Party.

Again, that will not be the only such Conservative-held constituency in the country.

Corbyn's hysterical opponents are still banging on about Hamas and Hezbollah, which mean nothing to almost anyone in Britain, and about the IRA, on which they have entirely lost control of the historical narrative.

An entire generation is growing up, with their elders increasingly taking the "you live and learn" approach that leads to the same conclusion, to whom the only British politicians who ever even aspired to peace in Northern Ireland were Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Ken Livingstone, in the teeth of an implacable determination to keep the blood flowing on the part of both "the Tories" and the Labour Right.

Corbyn's, McDonnell's and Livingstone's enemies would therefore be better advised to stop mentioning the subject of Northern Ireland altogether. But they won't.

And since they won't, the nominations will keep rolling in from rooms full of young, middle-aged and elderly members of the working, middle, and no doubt upper classes.

In Rochester and Strood, Poole, Horsham, Lincoln, East Worthing and Shoreham, Argyll and Bute, Bury St Edmunds, Canterbury, and Thurrock.

In the Vale of Clwyd, Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Bristol West, Rochford and Southend East, Havant, Romsey and Southampton North, Shipley, Harborough, Mid Sussex, Wyre Forest, North Wiltshire, Warwick and Leamington, and Penrith and the Border.

In every corner of the country.

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