Our generals should remain silent

A SERVING GENERAL has warned that the army would have to take 'direct action' if Jeremy Corbyn became prime minister. This 'direct action' implies a military coup to overthrow our dishevelled Lenin which would of course earn him a place in socialist mythology parallel to that of president Allende of Chile. This general: this later day Pinochet who threatens such an overthrow, is stupid beyond belief and makes one wonder how he became general in the first place: he clearly does not understand the martyrdom complex that the  Left all to easily falls prey to.

                

                The next time Corbyn makes a speech; he will have been pumped and primed by the disclosure of this general's remarks. I even bet that Corbyn will almost welcome this general's contribution. First of all because it elevates him into a position of socialist beatification if the general's wishes were ever to come about: secondly, it would confirm this dotty Marxist in his life-long prejudices against capitalism.  This general should face losing one his pips for providing the Corbynistas with such a weapon of propaganda.

                

                Thankfully his remarks have been quickly stamped upon by the MoD and none too soon. Generals are to be, I will not say… worshiped - although many of them throughout our nation's history have deserved such an honorific above those of politicians: but generals must nevertheless steer clear of politics, it is such a separation that has put this country above South American standards of government. It is the people who chose who to govern them, and if they chose someone who has declared his intension to dismantle our nuclear capability, our army, and our membership of NATO, and the British public wish to buy into such a madness at the ballot box; then it is such idiots who will have to pay the distasteful price for their naive actions.

                

                This does not mean that the military has no role to play in politics…they do; but only in extremis – such as Cromwell's New Model Army who were ready, when called upon to stop a tyranny from emerging that meant the end of parliament and democratic government and sought a return to the Divine Right of Kings. I believe that the end of democratic government is the ultimate ambition of all Marxists who see it as a bourgeois construct. Like the Nazis, they use democracy to attain power and then use totalitarianism to cling on to it. I would like to think that it was within this context, that the general alluded; but I doubt it.

GREAT BRITAIN does not do military coups, which is why our democracy has existed for so long. But any mention of 'direct action' by a nameless British general, sends the liberalista into a fit of the vapours such as those exercised by the Independent and Guardian whose journalists immediately fell into a swoon before dropping  onto the nearest chaise lounge in the editors office; mimicking  a character in an Austen or Trollope novel.

                

                 Corbyn must be given enough rope to hang himself; give him his chance to perform without tormenting him with his past imbecilities. It is those imbecilities that got him elected in the first place by imbeciles. He must not be forced to row back on any of them by the government and its sympathisers in the press – let him float them without challenge; let him explain them to the people; and above all treat him as a leader of Her Majesty's opposition: in other words do not turn him into a victim, for this will only accumulate pity for this innocent, among those liberals that never voted for him.

               

                This general - all generals, and those from the lower ranks must, like the rest of us who see this modern Mushkin as naivety exemplified; allow the public time to study and judge him for themselves. The public are disenchanted with modern politicians, and in a way, Corbyn and Farage are the polar opposites that have pulled the mat from under the feet of what is becoming the ancient regime of cynical politicians, orchestrated in the art spin and dissembling, who cannot bring themselves to deliver straight forward answers to questions that require only a Yes or No reply. Each interview given by a politician is not a search for the truth or even enlightenment, but an exhibition of the art of pussyfooting and stonewalling. An exhibition which the public have grown heartily sick of: which is why Corbyn is seen as an honest and principled politician whose dishevelled appearance  adds to the contrast between him and the immaculate who governs the country both Tory and Labour.

               

                The people are right in their scepticism of modern politicians but it is no reason to bring the whole democratic temple down upon themselves; which Corbyn, primed by his ideology, will be sure to do. I do not for one moment think that the majority of those hundreds of thousands, who voted for Corbyn in the Labour Party leadership elections, were doing so because they actually believed in Marxist socialism as Corbyn does. They, like those of us life-long Labour voters, also shared their cynicism – but Corbyn is not the answer unless you wish to destroy capitalism and alongside it democracy itself; for the two are twinned.

                

                 Finally I would say this to whomsoever the general was who threatened a putsch if a bearded, sandal-footed, and clenched fisted nincompoop flanked by public sector union bosses; to whom he was tethered like puppet, marched down Downing Street to oversee the socialist ritual of the destruction of UK capitalism.

                

                 Corbyn cannot win a general election without betraying his supporters. To do so would lead to him being presented with the black spot of betrayal by those he betrayed. He would become just like other Labour leaders such as Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, and Neil Kinnock; who the Left believed betrayed the Labour Party that eventually would lead to Tony Blair and New Labour, and the disbanding  of Clause IV: now we have the possibility of Jeremy Corbyn being added to the cast list of betrayal that the Labour Left will have jotted down in their little black book, that  excites the Lefts machinations of tortured perfidy that they believe has kept true socialism from power – Corbyn, even if he wished, could not compromise.