There is an old friend of mine who has always been avidly of the 'left'.
I was too in my younger, late adolescence days, ah student politics, those were the days, when one's naivety was cloaked by idealism.
OK, I know for those not in the UK, 'been there, done that
got the T Shirt'.
Anyway, whenever I phone this friend of mine now it does not take long for him to bring up the name of his champion, the new saviour of the left in the UK, Jeremy Corbyn.
Those in the US who know nothing of Mr Corbyn:
san ageing woodwork teacher with little or no formal education, a great complainer who is eternally wronged and denied his 'rights'. A cuddly Bernie Saunders he is not
So what would be like living under this man's rule if he won the next UK election, in the words of
the late and great Christopher Hitchens it would be like Weimar without the sex.
IT MIGHT BE SAID OF THIS NEW SAINT OF THE LEFT WHO WILL LEAD THEM TO THE PROMISED LAND THAT HE IS JUST ANOTHER OF THOSE MEN WHO FIND IT impossible to
pour the new wine of free thought into the old bottles of a narrow and a
trammelling creed. Those of us not of the 'left' derive our spirit of
criticism from the dogmatic authority from those Liberals like Mr Corb
Is there a contradiction in Mr Corbyn. that sainted woodwork teacher hailed by the young, we are talking very young, dazzled and infantalised by a man who refuses to stand for the National Anthem
as an advocation that dissent against one's country is good, but dissent against an individual is bad.
I was too in my younger, late adolescence days, ah student politics, those were the days, when one's naivety was cloaked by idealism.
OK, I know for those not in the UK, 'been there, done that
got the T Shirt'.
Anyway, whenever I phone this friend of mine now it does not take long for him to bring up the name of his champion, the new saviour of the left in the UK, Jeremy Corbyn.
Those in the US who know nothing of Mr Corbyn:
san ageing woodwork teacher with little or no formal education, a great complainer who is eternally wronged and denied his 'rights'. A cuddly Bernie Saunders he is not
So what would be like living under this man's rule if he won the next UK election, in the words of
the late and great Christopher Hitchens it would be like Weimar without the sex.
IT MIGHT BE SAID OF THIS NEW SAINT OF THE LEFT WHO WILL LEAD THEM TO THE PROMISED LAND THAT HE IS JUST ANOTHER OF THOSE MEN WHO FIND IT impossible to
pour the new wine of free thought into the old bottles of a narrow and a
trammelling creed. Those of us not of the 'left' derive our spirit of
criticism from the dogmatic authority from those Liberals like Mr Corb
Is there a contradiction in Mr Corbyn. that sainted woodwork teacher hailed by the young, we are talking very young, dazzled and infantalised by a man who refuses to stand for the National Anthem
as an advocation that dissent against one's country is good, but dissent against an individual is bad.
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