False Prophets



David Aaronovitch writes persuasively in TheTimes that Jeremy Corbyn is nothing new under the sun and not the kind of leader to revive the Labour party's fortunes while Seumas Milne in The Guardian argues that JC has already changed the 'rules' of the political game.

Readers can decide for themselves via the following links to the two newspapers, but as a recent visitor to the nation's capital I would simply observe that the so-called 99% 'Occupy London' protesters achieved absolutely nothing with their ridiculous protest and have now all disappeared like snow off of the proverbial dyke.  

The former Labour leader Ed Miliband toyed with the idea of embracing these 'toy town' revolutionaries who pitched their tents in and around St Paul's Cathedral for a short while, but every sign of their presence has now gone because they offered people nothing other than 'snake oil' solutions to the problems facing the UK economy.

So my prediction is that Jeremy Corbyn will suffer the same fate because the voters are not exactly stupid - despite what the Labour party and most of the big Labour supporting trade unions seem to think.  

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4518550.ece

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/05/jeremy-corbyn-political-stitch-up-anti-austerity-labour

Ich Bin Ein Milibander (06/11/11)


Labour leader - Ed Miliband - is in the news today which is normally good for the official opposition party - as it often struggles to get its voice heard.

But on this occasion I'm not so sure - because Ed is trying to identify himself with the 'occupy London' protesters - who are camped outside of St Paul's Cathedral. 

Without saying very much at all - the Labour leader is telling the rest of us - that we would be foolish to ignore the message of the protesters.

Fair enough - but my problem is that I don't really know what that message is - beyond a vague 'Stop the world - I want to get off protest!'.

The protesters - or some of them at least - say they are 'anti-capitalist' - but are not suggesting that the solution to our economic problems is to nationalise Marks & Spencers - and all the restaurants and pubs.

Not that I've heard anyway.

Other protesters are against the 'cuts' - but Labour's not against the cuts as such - Labour is only against the present government's cuts - so there's not some kind of huge principle at stake - only political posturing. 

And one of the reasons the country's in such a mess is the last Labour government - of which Ed Miliband was a cabinet member - of course.

Labour took its eye off the ball - failed to regulate the banks properly - and deliberately encouraged a huge increase in private and public debt - stoking the housing market for example - as the centrepiece of its economic policy.

So I doubt the wisdom of Ed Miliband getting on his moral high horse - and trying to lecture everyone else - without spelling out exactly what he means.

Ed has a track record in this area of jumping onto passing bandwagons - here's what I wrote about the Labour leader's speech to another group of protesters - back in April. 

Seems like he's learned nothing since then.

Ich Bin Ein Milibander (April 10 2011)

The latest edition of Private Eye contains the following spoof of Ed Miliband's speech at Hyde Park - to the 'anti-cuts' protesters led by the TUC.

That Miliband Hyde Park Speech - What You Missed.


"My fellow Americans, I have a dream, a dream of a country where women get the vote and black people can sit on buses without fear of being arrested, yes, this is the Britain we are marching towards, a Britain where slavery has been abolished and every Tolpuddle Martyr has been freed.

Today I stand before you, a simple Labour leader, to join your protest against some of the cuts, though obviously not all of them because let's face it if we'd been elected we would have to have made some too... (boos from audience).

No let me finish if it hadn't been for the previous Labour government we wouldn't be here today, hang on ...(more boos from audience) let me finish by saluting you all and assuring you in the words of Martin Luther Kennedy, "Ich Bin Ein Milibander".

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