If you were involved in planning, say, the next Great Train
Robbery, Jeremy Corbyn would be the last person you’d ever want on the team.
The Absolute Boy just cannot keep his mouth shut or remember what he’s supposed
to say.
Note his interview on the eve of the Labour Party conference
in which he started musing about the Single Market.
“We need to look very carefully at the terms of any trade
relationship, because at the moment we are part of the single market,
obviously,’ he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr. ‘That has restrictions on state aid
and state spending. That has pressures on it, through the European Union, to
privatise rail, for example, and other services. I think we have to be quite
careful about the powers we need as national governments.’
You can imagine Keir Starmer slowly and methodically
punching a pillar in the lobby of the Grand Hotel in Brighton as he heard the
Jezster open his mouth.
Corybn is simply revealing what we have known about him
since time immemorial. He hates the European Union and sees it as a conspiracy
of capital to prevent the implementation of a socialist programme of
government.
The trouble is he can’t remember that he’s supposed to be presenting an alternative
face in the autumn of 2017.
The gang sat him down and told him that Labour is now
backing the single market and customs union for a transitional period. They sold this change of direction on the
basis that it might help embarrass the Tories and win him votes in the House of
Commons.
Perhaps when that little plan didn’t work out, Jez thought
the game was over and he didn’t have to play any more?
Perhaps he forgot that the gang also whispered this might be
prelude to a more fundamental shift which could lead to Labour embracing the
single market long term.
But before you know it, the allotment king is blabbing his
mouth off and sends Labour right back to square one. They look like a party
that has no interest in saving the UK from the consequences of hard Brexit. Indeed,
you get the sense that Corbyn’s supposed backing for the EU in last year’s
referendum was a complete charade. If you don’t like the idea of the single
market and its restrictions, how could you back the European institution even at
a lacklustre 7/10?
His official fan club Momentum encouraged delegates to avoid
any debate over Brexit that would lead to a vote. No sense of irony in the fact
that these leftists always accused Blair of stifling debate and denying
conference delegates the chance to have their say.
A document circulated at the conference describing any
formal discussion as a ‘time-consuming cul-de-sac’. Actually, that’s a
description of Brexit itself. And that’s why it needed to be debated as a
matter of urgency.
When the Corbynistas crow about their election victory three
months ago (which perplexingly left them 60-odd seats short of a majority),
they assume that the coalition of voters they assembled will be there again for
them next time. All they need to do is add to it. My suggestion is that they
will lose the support of many young people who mistakenly believed that Labour
would act as some kind of break on Brexit, as well as a proportion of long-term
Labour voters who think the same.
Remember, when you put together a gang attempting one of the
biggest-ever blags committed in British electoral history, you need to choose
your members carefully. Jez is already singing like a canary. Or should that be
The Canary?
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