Labour can’t claim be the party for working people with fiends’ friend Jeremy Corbyn at the helm
The hardcore leftie is making the party more out of touch day by day with his immigration policies and IRA ties
LABOUR’S claim to be on the side of working people gets more ludicrous by the day.
Take immigration.
It was a Labour government that opened the doors to unlimited numbers of Eastern Europeans — and lied about doing so.
Now Jeremy Corbyn is proving just how out of touch Labour is on an issue that matters to so many working people.
His inability to give a straight answer yesterday on the number of migrants he would allow spoke volumes.
But it’s not Labour’s twilight zone policies that are the party’s real problem.
It’s that Mr Corbyn and his allies have spent their entire careers pushing causes that most Brits find abhorrent.
Until he was elected Labour leader, Mr Corbyn was chair of Stop The War, an extremist organisation dedicated to backing Britain’s enemies and campaigning against our friends.
But his backing for the IRA is of a different order altogether.
His refusal yesterday to give a clear condemnation of the terrorist organisation was disgusting but entirely unsurprising.
Disgusting, because the IRA murdered British citizens and soldiers.
It is shameful that Mr Corbyn equates the IRA with the army.
But entirely unsurprising because — along with his colleagues John McDonnell and Diane Abbott — the Labour leader has spent his lifetime as a friend of the IRA.
Leopards don’t change their spots — even when they want to be Prime Minister.
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