Piers Corbyn used to be a sort of lovable eccentric. He has a history of working with the squatting movement in London in the 1970’s and has been at the centre of a whole manner of kooky causes. He was an eccentric in the mould of other great British eccentrics such as ‘The Protein Man’ who spent years trying to convince Londoners that eating less protein would produce less ‘lust’.

But there is a line between mostly harmless eccentricity and dodginess. Piers Corbyn has already crossed over it with his continuing association with the sort of anti-vaccine cranks that are becoming increasingly radicalised and more than willing to go directly to those who they see as not on their side and attempt to intimidate them with bullshit ‘freeman on the land’ bollocks.

Piers Corbyn is up to his neck with the tin foil hatters, even to the extent that the actions of Corbyn and his mates caused a mobile vaccination centre to have to shut up shop due to intimidation. However his latest move isn’t just mad or something that I disagree with but in my view beyond the pale.

What he’s done is sit down and have an online conversation with genuine, dyed in the wool neo-Nazis in the form of Mark Collett of the neo-fascist party Patriotic Alternative. For those who don’t know Collett is a former organiser of the British National Party, a party that are the political heirs and successors of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists. If you deal with Collett then you have to be extremely careful, the old adage that if you sup with the devil then make sure you use a very long spoon, comes to mind here. Personally I don’t want anything to do with Collett or his micro-party or those who hang around with him and have no problem with distancing myself from those who were once close to me but who’ve sadly and unforgivably drifted into his orbit. I do however believe that the only time it’s acceptable to debate Collett is to show him up. He’s one of those who, if you let him speak, are very liable to twist a long enough rope to metaphorically hang himself with. Like allowing the neo-Nazi Nick Griffin to appear on the BBC’s Question Time, I believe that when it comes to these clowns, sunlight is a great disinfectant. By letting the clown Griffin speak, he was shown up as being what he is which is a neo-Nazi scumbag.

But I don’t believe that Corbyn was engaging in that sort of debate with Collett. I believe that, to take a charitable view Corbyn was trying to be a publicity hound believing that Collett would help him publicise his various lunatic vaccine and Bill Gates conspiracy theories. A less charitable view would be that Corbyn is relaxed about working with and talking to someone like Collett whose stock in trade is anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and who once had a girlfriend called Eva who sported a large swastika tattooed onto her left tit.

Either way it was a massively stupid thing for Corbyn to do. He surely must have known that Collett would ambush him with Jew hating bollocks and that, as you can see from the video provided by the Twitter user JoosyJew, is exactly what happened. Collett ambushed Corbyn with his usual ‘what about the Jewish Question’ gambit a tactic that anyone who knows anything about neo-Nazis, is normally a way of smearing Jews in some form or another.

Corbyn’s response to Collett is very odd. He didn’t immediately disconnect when Collett played his JQ bollocks as anybody with any sense would have done, he didn’t respond by saying that this was bollocks and explaining why, instead Corbyn um’ed and ah’d and said that he didn’t want to paint himself as a Holocaust denier. Corbyn added that he might speak about this subject another time. I’m afraid it does make me wonder what sort of things that Corbyn might say about Jews when the cameras are off of him?

The Corbyn family is a pretty messed up bunch to produce two brothers as dodgy as Jeremy and Piers Corbyn and it makes me wonder what sort of crap was talked about around the kitchen breakfast table when the Corbyn’s were growing up? Jeremy Corbyn has spoken in the past about how his mother was at the famous Battle of Cable Street when Mosley’s fascists were prevented from marching through what was once the heavily Jewish area of East London. Because of Jeremy’s long term friendship with some quite nasty Islamic extremists and Piers Corbyn’s willingness to talk bollocks on Mark Collett’s show, I find myself asking this question: ‘What side was Mother Corbyn on at Cable Street?’

There is no excuse for Piers Corbyn not knowing who Collett is or what he represents, Collett’s life, politics, tactics and peccadillos are well documented and publicly available. Corbyn should have been well aware of what Collett might do and he should have avoided appearing on Collett’s show.

Piers Corbyn has by his dealings with Collett transformed, in my eyes and I hope in the eyes of every reasonable person, from a relatively harmless but extreme eccentric, into something much more sinister. I shudder to think that if Labour had won the 2019 General Election then one of those who would have had the ear of the Prime Minister would be Piers Corbyn. Piers Corbyn should go back to his presumably heavily padded basement and stay there.