Corbyn out-riders Paul Mason and Owen Jones feel their moment has finally come. They yell through microphones of coming resistance and revolution, while eager crowds chant their agreement. Momentum activists discuss the need to block bridges and tweet about the firebombing of Lloyd George’s house over a hundred years ago by Suffragettes. Labour MPs such as Dawn Butler and Clive Lewis have tweeted their willingness to camp out in the Commons chamber to defy Boris Johnson’s prolonged closure of Parliament during the conference season. The hard left has suddenly, to the alarm of more moderate pro-EU activists, taken an interest in Brexit for the first time and decided to hijack the demonstrations and protests over the prorogation of Parliament. These extremists fantasise about general strikes and confrontations on the street, while most people in the UK are just desperately praying for the whole crisis to resolve itself. Let’s be honest though. There’s no doubt that thes
Phil Woodford co-hosts Colourful Radio's weekly news review show from London. He previously stood on two occasions as a Labour Parliamentary candidate.