Nigel Farage writes:
Anti-Corbyn Labour rhetoric has now hit levels of hysteria.
All of the great and the good are saying what a catastrophe Mr. Corbyn may be. It reminds me of my own press in the run up to the European Elections.
The effect of all of that was that we still came first, as will Mr. Corbyn.
And whilst I have absolutely no faith in the wisdom of his economics [well, you don't have a Nobel Prize in it], his victory is seriously good news for the ‘No’ campaign in the forthcoming EU referendum.
Under Corbyn, there will be a debate about TTIP, about the way Greece has been treated, and about the role of national parliaments and democracy.
I have no idea which side of the fence Mr. Corbyn himself will come down on, but I feel the Left is finally waking up to what a corporatist, big business club the EU really is [no waking up necessary; Corbyn and the rest were saying that when you were voting for Thatcher and Major].
I have to say I hope he wins.
The best news of all? A Corbyn win will be the death of the Green Party. Hooray.
Not that the Greens were ever on the Left. Ask them whether they regret the defeat of the miners in 1985. It works every time.
But now, they have been signing up to vote, albeit for other reasons, for a man who has been endorsed by the Durham Miners' Association and who is committed to making proper use of this country's vast reserves of coal, as could in any case now be done quite cleanly.
From the EU, to the neoconservative war agenda, to the attendant attacks on civil liberties, UKIP supporters could in absolute seriousness have done very much the same thing. Perhaps they have done?
Anti-Corbyn Labour rhetoric has now hit levels of hysteria.
All of the great and the good are saying what a catastrophe Mr. Corbyn may be. It reminds me of my own press in the run up to the European Elections.
The effect of all of that was that we still came first, as will Mr. Corbyn.
And whilst I have absolutely no faith in the wisdom of his economics [well, you don't have a Nobel Prize in it], his victory is seriously good news for the ‘No’ campaign in the forthcoming EU referendum.
Under Corbyn, there will be a debate about TTIP, about the way Greece has been treated, and about the role of national parliaments and democracy.
I have no idea which side of the fence Mr. Corbyn himself will come down on, but I feel the Left is finally waking up to what a corporatist, big business club the EU really is [no waking up necessary; Corbyn and the rest were saying that when you were voting for Thatcher and Major].
I have to say I hope he wins.
The best news of all? A Corbyn win will be the death of the Green Party. Hooray.
Not that the Greens were ever on the Left. Ask them whether they regret the defeat of the miners in 1985. It works every time.
But now, they have been signing up to vote, albeit for other reasons, for a man who has been endorsed by the Durham Miners' Association and who is committed to making proper use of this country's vast reserves of coal, as could in any case now be done quite cleanly.
From the EU, to the neoconservative war agenda, to the attendant attacks on civil liberties, UKIP supporters could in absolute seriousness have done very much the same thing. Perhaps they have done?
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