The Labour Party’s finished thanks to Corbyn – so it’s time for me to leave
There are still some in the party I respect - but it's not Corbyn and his band of deluded followers who've seen it plummet to new poll lows
DID you get the champagne out on Tuesday night?
Come on, September 12 marked one year since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party.
So we had some bubbly and a box of Twiglets, at my wife’s insistence.
She’s a Tory, you see. And when Corbyn was elected she laughed so hard, she pulled a muscle in her throat and coffee dribbled out of her nose.
Yes, she’s still laughing now. Even harder.
One year ago, the Labour Party was in the doldrums after an unexpected (by them) election defeat. But for all its problems, it was still recognisable as the Labour Party.
And you could just about imagine it running the country one day, maybe with a smart and clever new leader who understood the aspirations of ordinary British people.
Ahhh, yes. It didn’t quite get that, did it?
Instead the party was taken over by relentlessly jabbering, deluded, metropolitan, middle class liberals. The click activists.
Given the chance of joining this once great institution for just three quid, and having a say in the leadership election, they joined en masse.
And they spent their three quid electing a halfwit. They elected Jezza.
The party is now at its lowest poll rating for years — 28 per cent.
In Corbyn it has the most unpopular opposition leader since having an opposition leader was invented.
It faces the same sort of wipe-out in the north of England and the Midlands that it has already suffered in Scotland.
Corbyn has been a hilarious disaster. Voters were told that he’s “nice” — elderly, beardy, softly spoken.
But we know now he’s not nice. He describes the genocidal maniacs of Hezbollah and Hamas as his friends. He loathes what Britain stands for, he loathes “the West”.
He is a fairly thick ideologue — a prisoner of a set of juvenile, agitprop, political beliefs which were looking dumb in 1973, never mind now.
His opponents are bullied relentlessly. His fellow MPs threatened with deselection by the Momentum thugs who support his leadership.
He cannot bear to offer consoling words to the victims of 9/11 without plugging his own, anti-West, pro-Islamic agenda.
Listen: He. Is. Not. Nice.
We were told he would embrace the “new politics”. But that just meant purges and the smearing of his opponents. And being catastrophically useless in the House of Commons.
The vast majority of his fellow MPs despise him. And as the opinion polls show, he is popular only in his own little bubble in Islington. Oh, and maybe right-on Brighton.
I’ve left the party I’ve been in for nearly 40 years. I got suspended because I suggested that anti-Jewish feeling in the party was sometimes stoked by Muslims. Hell, call me a controversialist.
They then demanded I attend a meeting to account for myself. And presented me with a list of loads of things I’ve written to which they’d taken exception.
I told them to stuff it up their fundaments.
I still support the decent people in the party — the likes of Dan Jarvis and Tristram Hunt, Jon Cruddas and Maurice Glasman.
But the party itself is on its deathbed. That’s what’s happened in one short year since Corbyn became leader.
Don’t bet on it getting up any time soon, if ever.
EU're all talking Junck
THE appalling European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, has been opening his big fat gob again.
He’s threatening that the UK might not have access to a single market.
This drunken Luxembourg pygmy is one of the major reasons I voted for Brexit. He’s arrogant and anti-democratic.
Now he’s saying the EU should have a military headquarters.
Yeah, good luck with that. I bet that’s got Vladimir Putin trembling with fear.
Meanwhile, his own country’s politicians are demanding that Hungary be kicked out of the EU. Because they disagree with EU policy.
There’s democracy for you.
The Hungarians aren’t stupid and don’t want to take any more “refugees”.
Believe me, the EU in its current state will cease to exist long before we’ve left for good.
To all you Leave voters out there – well done. We’ve led the way.
Voters are over the Hill
POOR old Hillary Clinton’s looking a bit rough, isn’t she?
According to reliable sources, she has pneumonia – something she kept from the American public.
According to less reliable sources, she’s actually dead. As stiff as a stoat. And the Democrats are using a stand-in who smirks and waves and talks politically correct gibberish, just like Hillary.
Not sure what I believe. It may well be that she’s dead and the Democrats haven’t even noticed.
One thing’s for sure, though – it makes it slightly more likely that Donald Trump will win the election.
And Hillary’s problems aside, I’m willing to bet there are hundreds of thousands of Americans who don’t admit to the pollsters that they’re voting for The Donald.
Just like happened over here at the last election, and in the referendum.
Knickers in a twist
PEOPLE get themselves terribly worked up, don’t they? Pensioner Rozamund Perrin had some frilly knickers hanging on a washing line in her garden.
A local busybody mentalist weirdo took them down from the line and posted them through her letterbox, adding a note to say they were inappropriate garments to have on display near a school.
Frankly, I think Rozamund should report the matter to the Old Bill. It’s time hyper-sensitive, self-important idiots got a taste of their own medicine.
Where has it all come from, this modern thing of being outraged and offended nearly every hour of the day?
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Heel or no heel
UNION bosses have told the Prime Minister what sort of shoes she should wear.
Theresa May has been instructed by the GMB to stop wearing her trademark “kitten heels”.
The union’s hatchet-faced equalities officer, Penny Robinson, thinks kitten heels are sexist. They don’t advance the cause of women’s equality, apparently. Silly cow.
Nobody with any sense would take sartorial advice from trade union activists. It would be like taking driving lessons from Stevie Wonder.
In any case, Theresa May is doing far more for women’s equality simply by being Prime Minister. She doesn’t have to wear Dr Martens and dungarees to prove a point.
APPARENTLY, the porky dog-munching dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, has enough uranium to make seven nuclear bombs per year. That’s one for each of his chins.
I suppose we’d better start getting worried about this nutter. Even if his rockets do tend to blow up on the launching pad.
Another problem will come when he starts flogging to other hugely unpleasant states. Such as some of those in the Middle East...
No one wins when we intervene in the Middle East
A NEW report into the desert rat-hole known as “Libya” blames David Cameron for making matters much worse there.
When ol’ shiny face was Prime Minister, he launched military action against the country’s nutjob of a leader, Colonel Gaddafi.
The result is that with Gaddafi dead, the country is in utter chaos. And half of it, if not more, is controlled by maniacal jihadis.
When will our leaders learn? EVERY single intervention in the Middle East by us MAKES THINGS WORSE.
It makes things worse for them – and for us. If Iraq and Syria didn’t teach us that, what will?
Just leave them alone. The entire region isn’t worth a single drop of blood from a British soldier.
Taking the Vic
WHAT is it with this debate over whether Jenna Coleman looks anything like Queen Victoria?
It needs to stop. Of course she doesn’t look like her.
If she did look like the fat old sourpuss, I wouldn’t be watching Victoria. And neither would you.