A particular problem with Jeremy Corbyn has been alluded to
here and there ever since he was accidentally booted into the leadership limelight. Is he more Wolfie Smith than Comrade Corbyn?
For most of his inglorious career Corbyn has lent his MP status to all manner of unsavoury characters, causes and organisations. That’s
the behaviour, it is on record and perhaps there is no point in delving further. Partly because
we can’t unless we happen to know him personally and partly because the behaviour is probably all we need to know.
Not only that, but the key political point is that he attracts
some unpleasant people who certainly do not resemble Wolfie Smith.
Nobody took Wolfie Smith seriously and hardly anyone seems to take Corbyn
seriously but the people he attracts and seeks out – they are the clue to
his political significance.
Yet the man is clearly a plonker and the Wolfie Smith question remains.
Oddly enough that may be his only real strength, as those close to him
politically will understand.
5 comments:
I don't think there is a team of intelligent experts managing Corbyn. Seumas Milne is clearly a posh "eternal student" type, and McDonnell is a dour old 1970s relic who is probably intelligent, but knows little of the real world. Remember his "little red book" stunt that backfired?
The rest of his team are nobodies. They are only shadowing real government departments because their predecessors resigned en masse.
Remember "Bill Brand"?
Sam - you are probably right, but one person who knows what he or she is doing could change things. I agree though - what we see looks more like Citizen Smith than anything dangerous.
Sackers - strangely enough I remember not watching it. At the time my wife and I had no TV as we were recently married and going through a TV abstinence phase for the good of our souls. So I do remember not watching something I might have watched.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6-JyGTq9Nw
Written, I found out many years later, during the Callaghan years.
Sackers - thanks I'll bookmark it. The episodes seem quite long at about 50 minutes, as if it was seen as needing more than the standard quick-fire 30 minutes.
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