Peter Oborne writes:
The Blairite wing of the Labour Party is still hell-bent on sabotaging Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
They ignore the fact that Corbyn has enjoyed a better week. For example, he exploited the Government’s embarrassing U-turn over Britain’s squalid £6 million prison deal in Saudi Arabia.
The fact is that most of Corbyn’s Labour enemies are nonentities.
Although I profoundly disagree with many of Mr Corbyn’s policies, I believe these men and women would do well to remember that it is only a few weeks since their boss won the party leadership election with a landslide majority.
This pathetic civil war reminds me of the political assassination of Iain Duncan Smith as Tory leader 12 years ago, driven out of office by ‘modernising’ Conservative MPs in alliance with critics in the media.
I believe, too, that the attacks on the Labour leader are a symptom of something ugly that has happened to British politics.
A small London-based political class has captured both of the main political parties.
They wear the same clothes, they talk in the same voice, they hold the same opinions and they share the same contempt for voters.
Wrong-headed he may be, but Jeremy Corbyn is gloriously refreshing in that he has had the integrity and the courage to challenge this malign elite.
The Blairite wing of the Labour Party is still hell-bent on sabotaging Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
They ignore the fact that Corbyn has enjoyed a better week. For example, he exploited the Government’s embarrassing U-turn over Britain’s squalid £6 million prison deal in Saudi Arabia.
The fact is that most of Corbyn’s Labour enemies are nonentities.
Although I profoundly disagree with many of Mr Corbyn’s policies, I believe these men and women would do well to remember that it is only a few weeks since their boss won the party leadership election with a landslide majority.
This pathetic civil war reminds me of the political assassination of Iain Duncan Smith as Tory leader 12 years ago, driven out of office by ‘modernising’ Conservative MPs in alliance with critics in the media.
I believe, too, that the attacks on the Labour leader are a symptom of something ugly that has happened to British politics.
A small London-based political class has captured both of the main political parties.
They wear the same clothes, they talk in the same voice, they hold the same opinions and they share the same contempt for voters.
Wrong-headed he may be, but Jeremy Corbyn is gloriously refreshing in that he has had the integrity and the courage to challenge this malign elite.
But, as Peter Hitchens says, we now need someone to challenge this "malign elite" with equal vigour, from a patriotic, pro-marriage, pro-education, (in other words, politically-incorrect) position.
ReplyDeleteCorbyn is vigorously representing republican, anti-marriage, high tax, pro-immigration, pro-comprehensive school leftism.
Well, that position is not one I or Peter Hitchens share, but it deserves a hearing.
Now we need an opponent who represents the opposite.
The opposite of Jeremy Corbyn is David Cameron. There is Third Way.
DeleteFar from being the opposite of Jeremy Corbyn, since the Tory Party's conversion to leftism, it agrees with Mr Corbyn on a great many things; mass immigration, comprehensive education, EU membership, universal state childcare, equalities laws and political correctness in general to name just a few.
ReplyDeleteThe Tories agree with Corbyn far more than with, say, UKIP.
With, say, what?
DeleteThere are people, mostly on the Internet, to the right of Cameron, just as there are mostly on the Internet, to the left of Corbyn. But they matter exactly as much as each other.