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    Farewell to Corbyn. Archived Message

    Posted by johnlilburne on December 20, 2019, 12:30 am

    I don't apologise for supporting the Corbyn project and helping to push it as far as it will go.

    I am surprised it went as far as it has. I expected it to go tits-up before now.

    Of course, Corbyn's attempts to appease his Blairite and Zionist enemies were always doomed to failure and counterproductive. His endless apologies were, frankly, toe-curlingly embarrassing.

    His seemingly neutral stance regarding the disciplinary process was needed to maintain a semblance of impartiality. The 'witch hunt' of good, decent allies leaves a bad taste in the mouth, though I wouldn't go as far as to call it a betrayal.

    A big failure was not to support mandatory open selection when he was in a strong position after the 2017 election.

    He should have taken a strong stand against the antisemitism smears. He should have told the BoD and the JLM etc not to presume to interfere in internal matters and to stick their IHRA definition up their fundament.

    He shouldn't have given in to the extreme remainiac/PV faction, a position almost designed to undermine the party and lose the election.

    He shouldn't have supported an election before Brexit was resolved one way or another. But, because Blairites, LibDems, Tinges, 'moderate' Tories, hated him more than they hated Brexit and would not allow a 'caretaker' government under him, he hadn't much choice.

    Mixing Brexit and other issues in an election was fatal. It allowed Johnson to reduce the election to 'getting Brexit done' or not.

    There has never, in my lifetime, been a politician - and a fundamentally decent one at that - so vilified and traduced as Jeremy Corbyn. The whole establishment of this country, as agents of the Empire, have been united against him.

    They have succeeded in blackening his name to the extent that his name is anathema on many doorsteps.

    Well, we are where we are. We have been told. Corbyn and his politics are simply not acceptable. Resistance to neoliberalism is not permitted. Opposition to neocon resource wars is not allowed. And shut the #### up about the plight of the Palestinians (accept they are collateral damage in the geopolitical game) Anyone who still supports them will have to get back in their box. Reheated sub-Blairism or nothing.

    The one hope is that the establishment have exposed themselves for what they are and for the lengths they are prepared to go to, that they have exposed themselves enough to enough people, who will become angry enough to demand real change.

    In the meantime, we all have to suffer the post-Brexit blues, more immiseration for the already poor and vulnerable, more scapegoating of minorities, perhaps more wars. We have one of the most right wing governments ever, no longer the party of Major, Heseltine and Clarke, rather the party of Raab, Patel and, even, Tommy Robinson and Paul Golding.

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