IT HAS TAKEN four days to finally complete Corbyn's reshuffle of his shadow cabinet, after resignations following his first marathon reshuffle lasting some eight hours. The length of time it took to select his remodelled shadow cabinet after a mere four month's residency was explained in terms that sought to put Jeremy in a shrewd and judicious light. Jeremy is a believer in listening to all views (what he calls the new politics) before taking a decision: debate presumably, no matter how long it takes, is Corbyn's prerequisite for governing his nation – so it took over eight hours to keep Hillary Benn as the party's Foreign affairs spokesman (but only, it seems, on condition that he should keep his mouth shut), while removing his defence spokesperson Angela Eagle to the position of shadow minister for luvvie-dom and sport.
What a bizarre procedure this turned out to be. Billed as another Night of the Long Knives by the media; it proved a damp squib. I am told that while the discussions over the reshuffle were taking place an unfolding comical event took place. Journalists waiting expectantly for a good headline did what they could to listen into the conversation taking place in what I presume was Jeremy Corbyn's office as leader of the opposition.
Journalist's ears were pressed to the door of the leader of the opposition's office in order to hear something that could be turned into a headline, hour upon hour passed, with little happening. Except that is, the periodic appearance at the door of the Great Helmsman himself, to warn off the media from presumably 'listening in ' to private conversations.
WHAT DOES Corbyn's 'new' politics amount to? Well let us assume that in 2020 the nation had gone completely insane and elected a Corbyn government. Forget about his policies, they would be disastrous enough. Just concentrate on the workings of the cabinet he leads. Then think of how long it took to make two adjustments to his shadow cabinet in 2016.
Corbyn, like most far leftists, enjoys rancorous debate that goes on and on. His cabinet will be like a branch of some Marxist cult from the 1970s. Be it the Communist Party of Great Britain, the Worker's Revolutionary Party, or the Socialist Workers Party[1]. The left generally, but the far left in particular enjoy endless debate which in the past was conducted in the back room of a pub on some bleak winter evening, or in a back room of some or other Labour Club where, at the time, the hated leadership of the party was conspired against, with the hope that Tony Benn would lead the party.
This new politics Corbyn tries to convince us of is no such thing. It represents only a retreat to a failed socialist past. Corbyn is a fool if he genuinely beliefs that his political and economic nostrums that have already failed time upon time over decade after decade in country after country has any place in this nation as the foundation of his 'new politics'
There is nothing new in Corbyn's new politics; only a totalitarian vision that has, and still does, cause equal human misery comparable to the desolation that Nazism achieved. Socialism and Communism, call them what you want, has in terms of deaths from ideological persecution, attained a comparable position to Nazism in terms of the numbers of people it has murdered.
CORBYN, IF ELECTED, would bring this country down to a position it may not be able to retrieve. In the 1970s and 1980s when such a situation of Left-Wing intrusion last existed, was when the leadership of the Labour Party was regarded as centre-Right, but used the rhetoric of the Left to gain power; which made the Left in the party more cynical and more determined to gain control of the party for themselves. And so the activists of the party turned further Left; thus came about the ructions of the 1980's when, because of the party's drift leftward, the party was not to see power again until the election of Tony Blair.
So from 1979 until 1997, the Labour Party was kept from power because of, first of all the shenanigans of the Left, followed by an embarrassing and incompetent leader who swept away the influence of the far left within the party, but singularly failed to shine as leader of the opposition. Neil Kinnock was considered competent but embarrassing to behold; especially when he addressed the infamous Sheffield Rally on the eve of the 1992 General election.
Compared to Corbyn, Kinnock was Churchill. Corbyn is unable to take decisions on his own; which is why he dresses up such inadequacies in the guise of free debate. Debates of the type that helped him pick his new shadow cabinet. Corbyn does not have the grit to make him a prime minister to lead his country[2]. I think he knows this and was even surprised himself at one point, as were his parliamentary party, to see him elected. He knows he lacks the leadership qualities to even run a party, let alone a country. He will never be the puppet master in any cabinet he oversees once in government; but will respond to the emissions from around the cabinet table that carries the majority and thus greater weight.
Corbyn is here by accident, he entered a race which he believed he could not win but entered it nevertheless to lay down a marker on behalf of the far Left in British politics. He knew he could never personally govern a country, but would, if such a case were to emerge, he knew he would be reliant upon others: he knew and still knows his limitations, which is probably why he turns to the fig leaf of internal debate posting it as an affirmative action; instead of it being, in reality, a weakness of character. Corbyn cannot lead a government; he is gullible and naive; he is a modern day Prince Mushkin and deserves to be rejected by the electorate, for all of our sakes.
[1] Just three of the many Marxist factions on the Left at the time whose leaders opposed each other; even if the factions were all of an ideologically similar type - It was a fanfare of similar egos competing against each other over an ideology we now know is redundant after over a hundred years of failure wherever it has been enacted.
[2] A country he does not believe in anyway
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