The Guardian has had to close comments on Tony Blair's anti-Corbyn article before it was possible to buy the paper in which it would appear. There were already 4547 of them, and almost all were exactly as one might have expected.
Meanwhile, dear old Oliver Kamm has joined the ranks of Twitter's Plastic Unionists, that position having a long and ignoble history on what was once Fleet Street.
I am not aware that anyone from either Unionist party in Northern Ireland, or Sylvia Hermon, has expressed the concerns that that sorry lot affects to hold about Jeremy Corbyn and the IRA.
On the contrary, they share a Division Lobby with him against the Government's austerity programme, and he very recently appeared on a Belfast platform with a DUP MP.
But who ever asks them anything? They only have to live there, in the way that the people who piled up votes for Corbyn, Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell, John Austin-Walker, and so on, only had to live in London.
Devotees of either or both of Thatcher and Blair are the last people with any right whatever to set themselves up as champions of the Unionist community in Northern Ireland.
So far, the elected representatives of that community have forborne to say that publicly. But that reticence will not last forever.
As for Kamm, who is still ranting away at Neil Clark for having given his bad book a bad review in January 2006, Neil ought to hold some kind of tenth anniversary party. I for one would be delighted to attend.
I think you'll find she championed Ulster pretty well under the name of shoot to kill. Red Hand Tory
ReplyDeleteAsk any Unionist about her. They'll tell you. In no uncertain terms. She is possibly their greatest hate figure ever, and that is quite a feat.
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