The Principled One

SO, THE PRINCIPLED ONE is set to become vice-president of CND. Jeremy Corbyn has, it seems, turned the Labour Party into a protest group rather than having it remain a party. Think of the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams and his own naive attempt at trying to incorporate sharia law into English law and you discover the same mindset in Jeremy Corbyn. Each of them could be psychological creations from within a Dostoyevsky novel; they have a similar appetite for the innocence of romantic idealism in regard to human nature. They both think that human natures more unsavoury impulses can be deterred, either by Christianity or socialism – yet neither concept have proved itself civilised in its historical behaviour in attempting to improve human behaviour. Neither Christianity nor socialism has changed human nature for the better over the course of 2,000 years in the case of Christianity; or over the 200 or so years of socialism in one form or another, which has begun making its ideological rounds, firstly within Europe.

                

                The Principled One thinks he and his CND followers are the only creatures on this planet who believe the world would be better off without nuclear weapons. They seem to think we who oppose them, in their naivety, are lovers of the power and might of nuclear weaponry of the type depicted in the film Dr Strangelove; where Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper (played by Sterling Hayden) lights, in his deranged manner, the blue touch paper that sets off a nuclear war.

                

                The Principled One believes those of us in the West, who less than enthusiastically back the nuclear deterrent will open the door to such a calamity via similar means as the black comedic scenario that the Strangelove film sought to present.

                

                If the West, the whole democratic West, if Harry Potter-like waved a magic wand and disposed of the West's nuclear capability; trusting (as no doubt the Principled One does) that the West's enemies will readily concur and do away with their own nuclear capabilities no longer feeling under threat from the West; will then lead to a world of milk and honey is a kind of (if there is such a concept) of unhinged naivety.

IF THE WEST sought to trust its nuclear enemies; enemies such as North Korea, Russia, and the latent addition to the nuclear-armed family, Iran: who insist to president Obama that its nuclear facilities are purely for domestic utility purposes. Upon such an assurance, an eager American President now serving his final term in office is fully prepared to accept -  and a deal was done; but as a sell-out to America's only trusted ally in the Middle East – Israel.

                

                We know that if America, France, the UK and Israel, keep their nuclear weapons then those Western nations without them will be protected from their use by the West's enemies. Nuclear weapons kept the peace between the West and the East during the Cold War because of the concept of mutually assured destruction. Communism's global reach was limited to parts of Eastern Europe because of them; and there is no doubt in my mind that had we not in the West, had a nuclear capability while leaving the Soviet Union with one – then Stalin and Khrushchev would have conquered Europe, because (especially Stalin) would have threatened them and been fully prepared to use them.

                

                 Nuclear weapons, if ever used, would at least bring a permanent end to wars between nations (but within nations – it is another thing) and vast millions of humanity: it was the prospect of this nightmare that mutually assured destruction kept at bay. The Principled One would do all he could to wreck this admittedly incongruous concept of mutually assured destruction. The concept, however, in the face of 'the nuclear bomb', worked during the Cold War because however evil at the time the Soviets or Chinese were; they were not stupid: if they between them destroyed capitalism by such means; then communism would also fall. In other words the nuclear age put a spoke in the works of the Marxian dialectic of Historical Materialism. Nuclear power, a concept of which Marx was unfamiliar with, effectively destroyed the symmetry and the 'inevitability' of Communism – or what Marx was to described as the scientific method, which resulted in nothing more than the kind of reading of tea-leaves you may run into at a spiritualist séance.  

                

                If the Principled One wins the day and (God help us all) becomes prime minister; then those sinners will no longer have to wait upon death to go to Hell; for the Principled One will have already created it on this part of the earth. Not through any feelings of malignancy – but through an innate naivety.

                

                Jeremy Corbyn has been, at best, seen as a pest. Not as you may expect by the Tory Party; but by his own party: a party whose fidelity to failure the current leader and his supporters celebrate; and does so because, through some perverted Marxian concept of communist inevitability mentioned above: the longer the current Tory government remains in power, then the sooner the Marxian nirvana will take hold of the people.

                

                His message is, let them govern. The age of austerity will bring about the age socialism. The Principled One does not care about winning government; only about transforming his party and steering it away from decades of 'betrayal' from the Right-Wing Labour leaders, starting with Hugh Gaitskell, and continuing with Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, and ending with that great opportunist and apostate, Neil Kinnock; who spoke like a socialist but acted like a Gaitskellite.

                

                Betrayal after betrayal by the leadership has kept true socialism at bay within the Labour Party. Betrayal has been the mantra the young and naive simpletons of the Labour left have chorused ever since Gaitskell and beyond. Now the party has principles enunciated by the Principled One himself and no obstacle (even the prospect of failure at the polls) will deter him from inflicting on the populace a life-time of incoherent ramblings aimed at the outer reaches of common sense while eviscerating any sign of any pragmatic approach.