History will remember him as an embarrassment.
A pensioner playing sixth form politics who achieved nothing but making antisemitism fashionable again.
No way is Corbyn remotely akin to Michael Foot, who was a decent and honourable man, as well as an intellectual giant. Not a leader possibly and when he was, it was entirely at the wrong time, with Thatcherism at its peak.I think he'll be remembered akin to and probably worse than Michael Foot i.e. as a lesson to future Labour Party leaders that if you care more about a sect of your own party rather than the views of the country, you face electoral oblivion. That lesson will no doubt be forgotten yet again by the 2052 leadership election when Labour members vote for 77 year old Lord Burgon.
Doesn't every politician take stances and favour to like minds though. Thatcher with Pinochet being an example.Perhaps (although I disagree) but the point is, when Corbyn says and 'peace and justice', he means it in reference to one kind of person - somebody who has or has been alleged to have attacked Western interests or civilians.
Look at the other examples in the article I linked e.g. the way he described the killing of Bin Laden - a 'tragedy'. To me, a tragedy is when somebody flies an airliner into a building or when a teacher gets beheaded for teaching freedom of expression. But Corbyn didn't say a word about the Samuel Paty beheading (nor did virtually anybody in the Labour Party), and never speaks out about your average non-political miscarriages of justice cases let alone speaks out in cases where British interests have been targeted.
We saw that with the Skripal poisonings. When every other political leader (including Sturgeon) and every other Western country condemned the actions of Russia and Putin, Corbyn's sense of justice went out the window because, for him, peace and justice has always been a one-way street and always will be.
I expect this 'project' will be more of the same and will not bring people together. In fact, the only time Corbyn has brought people together was in 2019 when the country, en masse, voted for the Conservative Party.
Let them play.A man who's spent most of his life dedicating it to fighting for fairness and challenging injustice allows a group to use his name to promote an organisation with the same goals.
And the usual suspects appear playing full Daily Mail bingo.
History will look fondly on Corbyn.
No way is Corbyn remotely akin to Michael Foot, who was a decent and honourable man, as well as an intellectual giant. Not a leader possibly and when he was, it was entirely at the wrong time, with Thatcherism at its peak.
Foot was also a very critical friend of Israel and a professed admirer of the Jewish people and what they'd brought to British culture and society. He could see both sides of the Israeli/Arab argument and, in complete contrast to Corbyn, passionately opposed those who hid their antisemitism behind the label of 'anti-Zionism. Foot would never in a million years have talked about British Zionists lacking a sense of English irony.
You can also be for it whilst believing that Corbyn isn’t the right person to bring it.Like i said earlier, you are either for peace and justice or you are against peace and justice, i know which side i would rather be on.
So you judge a politician on their stance towards Israel.No way is Corbyn remotely akin to Michael Foot, who was a decent and honourable man, as well as an intellectual giant. Not a leader possibly and when he was, it was entirely at the wrong time, with Thatcherism at its peak.
Foot was also a very critical friend of Israel and a professed admirer of the Jewish people and what they'd brought to British culture and society. He could see both sides of the Israeli/Arab argument and, in complete contrast to Corbyn, passionately opposed those who hid their antisemitism behind the label of 'anti-Zionism. Foot would never in a million years have talked about British Zionists lacking a sense of English irony.
No. I judge them on having the ability to constructively criticise without being an out-an-out racist.So you judge a politician on their stance towards Israel.
the Sect being an overwhelming majority of party members. That sect?I think he'll be remembered akin to and probably worse than Michael Foot i.e. as a lesson to future Labour Party leaders that if you care more about a sect of your own party rather than the views of the country, you face electoral oblivion. That lesson will no doubt be forgotten yet again by the 2052 leadership election when Labour members vote for 77 year old Lord Burgon.
And here we go again.No. I judge them on having the ability to constructively criticise without being an out-an-out racist.