The ‘Unconstitutional Animus’ Against UK Labour Leader
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
The civil service clearly has it in for any potential Corbyn government, briefing against it for some time now. The recent claim that Corbyn “lacks both a firm grasp of foreign affairs and the domestic agenda”, is one example; the funding of Integrity Initiative, organised by the government’s Institute for Statecraft, another.
H/t Robert Jones
This article was originally published by Consortium News on Tue 16 Jul 2019. Read the original here.
The ‘Unconstitutional Animus’ Against UK Labour Leader
Johanna Ross spoke with David Miller, a propaganda researcher, after the recent publicity of U.K. civil service murmurings about Jeremy Corbyn’s “fitness.”
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Wow. Just Wow. The Stop Jeremy Corbyn at all costs horrendous establishment and Israeli regime lobby campaign even involves the civil service, government bodies and OUR MONEY. Just DISGUSTING. I read today that BoJo the EVIL CLOWN will be spending from taxpayers around £100 MILLION on a BREXIT PROPAGANDA ad when 16 MILLION people are living in abject poverty and dying as a result of tory savage cuts. THIS IS WHAT YOU EXPECT IN NORTH KOREA. Feel ashamed to be British.
Jeremy Corbyn must be the most smeared and bullied politician of all time. He never sold out his principles for money or power( Wally Watson take note), has stood by our sides when we came under physical attack, never saw Malicious Mann or Horrible Hodge on the frontlines, has always championed peace not war, lives modestly, even gets bashed for having an allotment, never been afraid to speak truth to power,never wavered in his support for oppressed minorities, Immigrants and the brutalised Palestinians. Unlike the hypocritical baying bunch of Friends of Israel nasty stooges who organised the bloody witch hunt against our FRIENDS. Sick of them all.
I agree wholeheartedly but I do believe that Comrade Jeremy is out of his depth, displays a lack of strong leadership and comes across as an idealistic backbencher lost in the cut and thrust of real politiik
Oh yeah – lost in the thrust of real politic! What a load of nonsense- he is an amazing leader – how he manages to cope with the HUGE umprecidented in my 74 year lifetime, campaign of daily smears against him I do not know – he is super human – potentially the greatest Party Leader ever. And do we ever need him right now!
In response to Kevin’s comment: Corbyn certainly has his limitations, which his government would have to work around, but a lack of spine is not one of them. I genuinely wonder how any of his predecessors or rivals would have coped with the ceaseless barrage of mockery, smears and downright lies he has been subjected to from virtually all of the media and both sides of the House for three years now. I honestly think it would have broken most other men. His fortitude, his self-control, his truth to himself and (clearly) the very healthy hinterland that sustains him are all huge assets to a prime minister, whatever experience and “first-class intellect” he may lack. Plus, if I can borrow the word, he is a mensch!
The national and international governing establishment will continue to do whatever they can to prevent a UK socialist government led by Jeremy Corbyn. They may succeed; they have everything on their side except truth and justice. So, they just might lose. But if Labour members fail to recognise and support the strength of Corbyn’s idealism, resilience, and moral leadership, we are less likely to see a socialist government. We should not collude with the “cut and thrust of real politik”.
I agree with the last three comments. Huge resilience, moral courage and decency. Bernie Sanders succumbed to much less vicious attacks from the Democratic Right and then we had Trump. Its just possible that his detractors on all sides may have overreached themselves.. I admire the loyal steady young members of the Shadow Cabinet he has built around him. ( by contrast with Johnson).. I call that leadership.
My one quibble is the picture used at the start of the article.
It suggests JVL are buying into the Corbyn = Moscow Agent nonsense.
You don’t know how others might spin this.
Please use a different picture in future.
[Web editor: the photo comes from the orignal article where it had the caption “Controversial BBC graphic seeking to link Corbyn to Russia.” We used it as a featured image and lost the caption in the process. We trust our readers know that we are not endorsing the idea of Jeremy as a Russian agent!]
Recently an original supporter of Jeremy Corbyn told me she thought: “Jeremy has lost the plot and should resign, but wondered who was good enough to follow him!” Precisely, if he resigned now he would be betraying all of us desperate for a truly Socialist Government.He has to continue to show the foretitude that has got him through so far and wage a strong Socialist campaign in the election that will inevitably follow Boris Johnson’s blustering failure. As Harold Wilson famously said:”A week is a long time in Politics!”
Terry Barry you speak a load of poppycock particularly as Kevin’s comments have gone way over your head.
Jeremy’s integrity is not being questioned at all. What is being questioned is his ability to lead us to victory.
Forget all the intellectual posturing, we need a stronger leadership!!
Get off your high horse and get us votes
Who cares animus shaminus WE gonna win the election hands down.
The austerity advocates will be history and Bojo a fossil.