It was good to see Dreda Say Mitchell on Question Time. She is a staunch Left Brexiteer from the specific perspective of working-class black London. Having her and Diane Abbott on at the same time was a great improvement on the usual practice of "balancing" even the occasional token supporter of Jeremy Corbyn with one of his obsessive haters from the Westminster Village Branch Labour Party.
Someone in the audience, in Conservative-held Colchester, knew who Abbott was, but did not even know the name of the Cabinet Minister on the panel. Nor can I remember it, if I ever knew. But off he went about Venezuela and blah blah blah. Whereas Abbott accurately pointed out that Corbyn's policies were taken as read in places like Germany and Scandinavia.
Last week, it was Rod Liddle who pointed out that simple fact. Rod Liddle, as Associate Editor of The Spectator. Rod Liddle, a columnist on the Sunday Times and The Sun. The Sun. Beyond the comments threads of certain websites, the Caracas Chorus has no audience whatever. It needs to be asked precisely which specific policy of Corbyn's resembled anything in Venezuela. Even were such a policy to be identified, then they would probably have it in several First World countries, too. Sometimes including the United States, as in the case of the rent controls that were to some extent supported by four out of five panellists last night.
Last week, it was Rod Liddle who pointed out that simple fact. Rod Liddle, as Associate Editor of The Spectator. Rod Liddle, a columnist on the Sunday Times and The Sun. The Sun. Beyond the comments threads of certain websites, the Caracas Chorus has no audience whatever. It needs to be asked precisely which specific policy of Corbyn's resembled anything in Venezuela. Even were such a policy to be identified, then they would probably have it in several First World countries, too. Sometimes including the United States, as in the case of the rent controls that were to some extent supported by four out of five panellists last night.
"Look at Cuba!" shrieked the odd one out, the nameless grey suit from central casting. I'd do more than look at it. Just as I would welcome missionaries from Africa to sort out the Church in this country, so I would welcome missionaries from Cuba to sort out the Health Service. They are not necessarily unfamiliar with each other, anyway.
Labour needs 65 seats for an overall majority. It needs to identify the most dilapidated part of the NHS in each of its 65 target seats, and the same in each of the 65 most marginal that it already holds. It then needs to secure the establishment of a Cuban medical mission alongside, and in support of, that facility, as in other areas of the Third World. Ideally, each of those missions would be opened in person by a touring Jeremy Corbyn.
If I were a Member of Parliament, then, alongside and in support of the dilapidated NHS, there would already be Cuban medical missions in and serving my constituency. Supposedly up-and-coming MPs on the Left, whose nearest and dearest may even be given to cries of "¡Hasta la victoria siempre!", need to be asked why they are not doing this. Yet another reason, I suppose, to want to send me to prison.
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