Sunday, 1 March 2020

Lateral Thinking

Of course Jeremy Corbyn is not going to be the next Shadow Foreign Secretary. The next Leader of the Opposition is going to be a member of the Trilateral Commission.

He was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet by Corbyn, of course. Sentimentality about the present Labour Leader is entirely misplaced. Labour has an outer left flank that has in fact been more rigorously policed under Corbyn than under any previous Leader. But it does not have, nor has it ever had, any outer right flank whatever.

No economic or foreign policy position has ever been so right-wing as to constitute a bar to membership of the Labour Party, or even a bar to the Leadership of the Labour Party. The next Leader of the Labour Party is going to be a member of the Trilateral Commission.

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