Even Corbyn opposes Corbyn

Is there anyone left supporting Corbyn and McDonnell?

I feel sorry for Jon Ashworth: he is only saying what I have been saying, what many have been saying and hearing on the doorstep, so actually we are at one on this – although obviously for Corbyn’s ally t0 be opposing him is, well, no, it is not unusual.

It should not be controversial to say that most of the general public hate Jeremy Corbyn. It should not be controversial to say that putting state security in the hands of a declared enemy of the nation, a friend of those who try to destroy it, is a fatal mistake, or putting command of the armed forces in the hands of those who have been in the pay of the governments of Russia and Iran is disastrous. It should not be controversial to say that putting the Treasury in the care of one who wants to abolish money is madness. It should not be controversial to remind the public that no Marxist who has obtained power has ever willingly given it up again.

There are gaps in the line-up. Where have some of the big names gone? Where is Emily Thornberry in this campaign, or Keir Starmer? Are they staying back to give them freedom to manoeuvre against the Momentum gang? Or are they being kept away because they are not Momentum? In Starmer’s case it may just be because he is so unpopular with the public. That might be the case with Thornberry too. It is quite a feat to be more unpopular even than Jeremy Corbyn.

A day to go and Labour in meltdown and still the Conservative lead cannot grow to what it should be. From their performance and obvious impracticality, Labour should be declined into minor protest party, but somehow they cling on out of emotion beyond logic. That is a lesson that nothing can be taken for granted, and even if Boris soars to a famous victory, which is not assured, he will have to work like stink and perform like a hero to win next time round.

See also

• Boris unleashed
• Honest, Georgian elections
• Accidental spies, useful idiots
• 101 Uses for a Dumped MP

Books

• By Boris Johnson:
  • Seventy-Two Virgins
  • The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
  • The Dream of Rome
  • Have I Got Views For You
  • The Spirit of London
  • Johnson’s Life of London: The People Who Made the City That Made the World
• Woke: A Guide to Social Justice by Titania McGrath
• The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay (1841)
• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, by Jordan B Peterson
• All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class by Tim Shipman
• Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union by Harold D. Clarke, Matthew Goodwin and Paul Whiteley
• Brexit: How the Nobodies Beat the Somebodies by Sebastian J. Handley
• By David Cameron:
  • For the Record
    • (Signed edition)
  • Cameron on Cameron
  • For the Record by David Cameron

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