Marxist Moments

Why Is Jeremy Corbyn Not More Popular?

 

Too old at 68. (Donald Trump, after all, is only 71 and plans to run again in 2020.)

Too eccentric. Has an allotment. Wears sandals all the time. Has a beard. Doesn’t drink much and is a vegetarian. So, bohemian.

Too London-Islington-southeastern; intellectual, neither ‘one of us’ nor a proper toff like Bo-jo and Theresa May; toffs are born to rule, after all. Even if they can’t govern. Anyhow Bo-jo is blokey in a millionaire sort of way; Corbyn is not. Corbyn isn’t rich enough to look good being blokey.

Pro-immigrant. Wants to open the floodgates to the Swarm, destroy all our jobs.

Pro-environment tree-hugger. Wants to destroy all our jobs.

Anti-nuclear weapons. Wants to destroy all our jobs.

Don’t trust that McDonnell, either. His economics will bring down the country sooner than the Tories will.

Doesn’t big up Britain in the world. Sees us Brits as third-rate. Hates this country.

Will raise taxes and bloat bureaucracies for his public-sector union cronies  that will bring this country down.

Never held a proper job outside politics.

Ruthlessly autocratic and weak. Runs the Labour Party like a dictator, and can’t face down dictators like Putin.

Too weak to get rid of the anti-Semites who run the Labour Party, the biggest Nazi-type party in Europe, with a long history of book-burning, torchlight parades, brown shirts and shorts, open anti-Semitism. Would let Israel down in its heroic nation-building.

Too much of a youth cult following, bad because anyone under 21 is a fuckwit glued to their smartphone.

If Corbyn is so great, why is 99% of the British press and media against him? No smoke without fire.

This country never got anywhere – Industrial Revolution, Empire, victories in two World Wars – by thinking first and acting afterwards. Boris Johnson, our greatest-ever foreign secretary, knows that well enough. Until Corbyn takes a leaf out of Bo-jo’s and May’s book and acts decisively without thinking, he will never gain the trust of the great British public.

Over to you, Momentum!