Foot and Corbyn, similar in some ways and markedly different in others.
Many who are contemplating the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party may initially reach into their memories for a former leader to compare Corbyn with. Some of those will say that Michael Foot would be the obvious comparison, and the far leftism of Corbyn does indeed fit with the far leftism of Foot. Another comparison is how electable the leader makes their party. When Labour was in its first death spiral back in the 1980’s, under Michael Foot the party became horrifically Left wing.
It was a party infiltrated by extremist Trotskyite groups, supporters of Communism and those who were influenced by the purveyors of identity politics that grew out of the post-1968 ‘New Left’. The party had become unelectable. It was a left-wing freakshow. The councils that early 80’s Labour were running were synonymous with waste, political correctness, overt-pandering to minorites, and empty, but expensive, gesture politics such as the ‘Nuclear Free Zone’ that was declared by the Greater London Council under Ken Livingstone. Normal voters, some of whom had changed from Labour to Conservative in disgust at the way Labour were running/ruining the country prior to Mrs Thatcher, looked at how Labour in local government was behaving and decided that it was too dangerous for them as individuals, or for their families or for their nation to vote Labour.
That was Labour then, but what of Labour now? On the face of it a comparison between Corbyn and Foot looks sound and in some areas it is. Both come from what could be called the far-Left area of the Labour Party, both preside over a Party that was decimated at an election and both see ‘turning Left’ as the way to win over voters. But that’s not the whole story.
There is a profound difference between Corbyn and Foot, and that difference can be seen in some of the external causes that they have supported or condemned.
Foot, for all his wrong handling of public relations and image, at a time when a politician’s image was becoming important, and the disastrous economic policies, didn’t hobnob around with theocratic fascists. Unlike Corbyn, Foot knew evil when he saw it and was one of those who wrote ‘The Guilty Men’, a polemical book condemning those in Britain who would appease Adolf Hitler. Corbyn on the other hand is quite happy to appease Islamo-fascism and his support for and contacts with those who support the Islamic fascist groups Hamas and Hezbollah, have been extensively documented elsewhere.
Foot, because of the times he grew up in and the times he became politically active, saw the degradation that afflicted the British working classes in certain parts of the UK and resolved to do something about it. Although I may disagree with Foot’s socialism, there can be no doubt in my mind that he did at least try to understand the concerns of Britain’s working classes. Corbyn’s behaviour in one of his first post election win actions, attending a ‘pro-refugee’ rally in London, show quite clearly that Corbyn doesn’t give a monkey’s chuff about the British working classes. Corbyn is plainly in favour of taking in many more of the self-same Muslims who are currently murdering, raping, thieving, corrupting and poncing their way through one British city and town after another.
Behaviour like that doesn’t look to me like that of someone who wants to look after the hard pressed British working classes, it looks like the behaviour of an Islamopanderer. I would not be at all surprised to find that many of the £3 new members of the Labour Party who voted in the recent leadership election
This election could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back with ordinary Labour voters. It could also mark the time when the Labour Party definitely de-evolves into the de facto ‘Islam Party’. Would you, even if you were a dyed in the wool, sensible Labour voter from a family of multi-generational Labour voters, want to vote for something like that? I think that many will look at what Labour has turned into and will turn away from them. Labour will then be primarily the party of Muslims, recent 3rd world immigrants, the terminally stupid sort of middle class Lefty Briton and the dole bludgers who will be bribed to vote Labour with the promise of more benefits.
It is to be hoped that Corbyn will make the Labour Party as unelectable as the Labour Party was under Michael Foot or even more so. Corbyn will take Labour much further down the road of Islamopandering than either Blair or Brown ever did and this may turn off those voters who like the idea of mild socialism, but despise the sort of theological fascism that Corbyn seems all too friendly with.
As I said at the beginning of this piece, Foot and Corbyn may look the same at first glance, but there are major differences. Foot opposed the evil of Nazism whereas Corbyn would happily take Islamofascism out to dinner and get the rest of us to pick up the bill.
Links
Corbyn attends pro-refugee/invader rally in London
Wiki page about Foot being one of the authors of ‘The Guilty Men’, an attack on appeasing Hitler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty_Men
Wiki page about the Greater London Council under Ken Livingstone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_London_Council_leadership_of_Ken_Livingstone
Independent newspaper article about the rise and fall of the ‘Loony Left’ in the London Borough of Lambeth
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-red-teds-loony-lefties-1593657.html
Wiki page on the 1980’s ‘Loony Left’ – Which I’m afraid doesn’t do justice to just how lunatic some Lefty councils were back then.
You’re correct again, 211.
A motley collection of self hating, and British hating, leftards and islamopanderers,
financed by the trades- union barons who will extract a heavy toll on their stooges
in parliament, “When I shout shit, Corbyn, you jump on my shovel … comrade.”
The Labour party…… living proof you can fool some of the people all of the time.
hopefully to wander the political wilderness for decades to come,
This clown could even make Cameron look half decent, difficult enough be it.
Something else we should dislike him for!
XX sensible Labour voter XX
THAT must be the oxymoron of the century!
I know, but there are still a few who don’t yet realise that the Labour Party has decided that British workers will no longer be a priority.