THIS IS ANOTHER JEREMY PIECE. The Dear Leader has vowed to roll back the EU 'reforms' made by David Cameron by creating a coalition of hard Left anti-austerity parties in Europe if (God forbid) old Greybeard wins.
I have (honestly) yet to see a smile light up Jeremy Corbyn's face. He personifies seriousness and 'corbyning' should become one of its synonyms. Whether he is talking politics or commenting on the summer weather: there is something anal about the man, hinted at in his need to collect drain covers. He was never born to be a leader and he knows it; but a deliverer of child-like answers to complex problems in the form of idealistic platitudes without any intellectual substance to make them more convincing: platitudes and rhetoric rather than empirical evidence is Corbyn's method of debate. Corbyn has a set of socialist values which he trumpets and regard as superior to any of those in support of the free market and democracy; and he refuses to listen to any counter-argument that may seed doubt in this belief.
Corbyn did not want or expect to become leader of the Labour Party. It was his predecessor Ed Miliband that changed the voting rules that Corbyn took advantage of. But even then he did not expect to become leader; it was meant as a gesture of the type the Left is always keen on making. But we are where we are. Corbyn is the leader of the Labour Party and he does not want to go into the next election as its leader. He knows he has little chance of winning; and if he did, and became prime minister; he would be lost in the job. His political principles would be tested and he cannot afford such a test.
In order to retain power he would have to compromise as all party politicians have to do once in power; it is the democratic reality of power within a democracy dependent upon the nature of the majority. Compromise is that most hated of expressions that Corbyn foreswore as a socialist. After seeing it implemented by previous Labour governments once in power, he vowed never to countenance it himself. Corbyn is not prime ministerial material. He knows it; he does not want to burden himself with such a responsibility because he may be forced to compromise his principles and be seen as yet another betrayer of the Labour Party, which he would try avoid at all costs having seen the fate of numerous other leaders of the Labour Party, and their excoriation by the Left.
He wants out. And one of the ways he chooses is by attending an anti-trident protest in London rather than joining his party's supporters up and down the land to support keeping us in the EU. He welcomes his overthrow and has even added the Marxist ex-finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis to his economic team. Which he hopes will pile on the pressure for his removal among his parliamentary 'colleagues'; for he no doubt feels he will have even greater Kudos with the Left if he is deposed by the majority of his own backbenchers.
JEREMY CORBYN is a Eurosceptic, as was Michael Foot and Tony Benn; both of whom he must have worshipped. Corbyn is avoiding the debate. He knows that this country can thrive alone; as did Foot and Benn. The international aspect of membership of the EU is tempting to socialists, but it is a vain and an unworkable prospect. Although its anti-democratic format would have its appeal too many a Marxist, along with the Leftist curricula vitae that people like Barroso, and many others similar to him in Brussels enjoy.
The thought of losing national sovereignty that united Foot, Benn, and even Enoch Powell; is perhaps pertinent to Corbyn. Perhaps nationhood and its sovereignty are as deeply embedded in Corbyn's political psyche as they were in Foot and Benn's. But Corbyn (probably because he would have to ally himself with the Cameron[1]) will try to keep himself as far away from the debate; and if at crucial moments in that debate he can conjure up another anti-Trident rally[2] to address, he will do so. Corbyn is a Eurosceptic caught between a rock and a hard place. His primal fear is to be called a traitor by his own supporters who are his real constituency: those hundreds of thousands who made him emperor at three pound a go - as well of course his real puppet masters, the unions.
I truly believe that Corbyn is out of his depth and cares little for his nation as long as it remains a free market economy. He deplores our history, although how much of it he has studied, freed from Marxist interpretation, I do not know. Socialists like Corbyn are not interested in any counter argument to their own. Their beliefs are, like the Mosaic Laws, carved in stone to be preserved for all time. Corbyn's Moses is Karl Marx; and Corbyn has no hinterland except for drain covers; he is preoccupied with the un-scientific socialism of Karl Marx. He, like the many thousands of Marx's believers, outside of academia, have never read Das Capital from page one to however many thousands of pages to the end.
In fact, apart from a few academic nerds, this well known but little read volume has anyway been trumped by the very system it sought to undermine. But try telling that to Jeremy Corbyn. Socialism is like anti-matter to Capitalisms matter. The two can only combust if allowed to drift together beyond a certain point. Social democracy was meant to be the retardant that would finally allow a blend between socialism and capitalism that would benefit both systems – but it has not.
East is east and West is west; and nay the twain shall meet. It is one thing or the other. There is no compromise possible. With this I agree with Jeremy Corbyn. Matter and anti-matter are irreconcilable opposites in nature, as well as in politics; and Corbyn must have the courage to say so. We know because the commentators have told us; that no matter what we may think of Corbyn, he is a man of principle – well we must wait and see whether he substantiates their belief in him as a true man of principle.
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