I don't mind being called a Corbynista. Only recently becoming politically active, it did come as a bit of a surprise that playground tactics were part of the mix, but I've been called worse.
I became politically active because of Jeremy Corbyn. Before, I was merely a retired headteacher with a conscience, a state of beng which I now understand to be "woke", and I have no problem with THAT either.
I respect Corbyn enormously, and see him out and about tirelessly campaigning for peace and justice, and ask myself why every elected politician doesn't feel compelled to do the same, when 1/3 of the children in the U.K. are growing up in poverty: maybe because they're not woke?
I not going to hanker after a comeback for him though. Who'd want to drag anyone back to the abuse, antagonism, and vilification he had to put up with, simply by personifying what the Labour Party claimed to be.
I'm getting to the point, bear with me.
Setting aside the trauma many obviously suffered at the prospect of Britain being hauled into the 21st Century as a modern social democracy - and we're all now feeling your pain - am I the only one who sees the bigger picture?
The entire establishment conspired against the one
politician in my lifetime who offered the prospect of a decent standard of living for all. I watched with detached amazement as a general, an Archbishop, the US Secretary of State, and HIS OWN PARTY united to bring him down.
Doesn't anyone else get how fucked-up this was?
Still is.
Jeremy Corbyn has become the bogey-man of the establishment. The gentle jam-maker from Islington has to be continually presented as a threat of unimaginable proportions to... what, exactly?
A political class content with 1/3 of British children growing up in poverty, and an economy looted on behalf of the obscenely rich by the obscenely rich.
So, go ahead, call me a "Corbynista," and I'll come right back at you with, "Sucker", and we'll see who blinks first.
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