Corbyn's Signpost Back To The Ghetto

September 2015

Corbyn, it seems, is more concerned with maintaining his carefully cultivated persona as a moral messiah — a saviour of the downtrodden — than with listening to the needs or wishes of the socially and economically disadvantaged. This man who takes tea with terrorists and has at his disposal a vast army of useful idiots can no longer be treated as a figure of ridicule. While Labour would undoubtedly flounder in the next general election under Corbyn’s leadership, his extremist views would still be granted a gilded platform were he Leader of the Opposition. In a political landscape where any discussion of morality is deemed gauche and in which ministers dare not repaint their bathrooms before consulting a focus group, I can hardly blame the public for being intrigued by Corbyn. The government might begin to counteract this reactionary firebrand by readopting Lady Thatcher’s language and moral courage. Where Corbyn calls for socialism, the government should respond: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.” Where he uses divisive language, we must reply: “The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.”

In May, ethnic minority groups and those on lower incomes voted for the Conservatives in huge numbers — the government must not betray their trust.

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amcdonald

September 14th, 2015
1:09 PM

A vain,sloppy, presumptuous article. The sociologist and philosopher Bassam Tibi (also a muslim) has the right idea. Unfortunately no muslims support him. There`s only me and Zizek so far. The Tory `Dismaland` might be terminal.

Anonymous

August 30th, 2015
2:08 AM

Ms. Ahmed is a rare voice of sanity, clarity and well-placed anger. We Americans could use a few more Maryam Ahmeds on our side of the pond.

Charlie 7Anonymous

August 28th, 2015
10:08 PM

Very perceptive. It is 25 years since the collapse of Communism and those under the age of 45 have little or no memory of it. There was no trials of communists who murdered tens of millions. Ever since 1935, the vast majority of arts and humanities academics have been left wing, especially post mid 1960s and in the ex-polys. Consequently, there are vast numbers of arts graduates who have left wing views, in part because of their indoctrination at university, who have been filling state and NGO positions since 1945 and especially post 1997. As Ruth Sutherland of The Observer pointed out , Browns economic policy was taking money from SE England and using it to increase public sector employment in the regions. There are many left wing academics and state employees who are Trots not traditional labour supporters, a reason why K livingstone won the election to become Mayor of London against the Labour candidate in 2000. As N Cohen pointed out,it was the 500 members of the Trot Socialist Action whose organisational skills who enabled Livingstone to win. The massive over supply of arts graduates has produced tens or even hundreds of thousands of under employed and potentially, very bitter, hateful, jealous and envious people. It was said that unemployed lawyers were a major cause of unrest which created the French Revolution. If Corbyn can unite all the hard left /Trot groups in academia, local government, the NHS, education and NGOs and mobilise a few tens of thousands of hateful under employed graduates with plenty of time on their hands to organise, then there could be problems.

Anonymous

August 27th, 2015
3:08 PM

I saw plenty of un-sourced claims of what Corbyn thinks or said here. e.g. "printing banknotes and holding peace talks with ISIS "

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