The 'Sunshine' Boys
The 'sunshine of socialism' is not much of a slogan, but so far it's all that Jezza and John have come up with to illustrate their brand of 'kinder, gentler politics' which seems to have turned rather nasty of late.
Ugly, hateful language is now routinely used in place of political debate, especially on social media, where Labour MPs are regularly attacked as 'Tory scum' for taking a different stance to the present leadership, despite the fact that Jeremy Corbyn has been a serial rebel himself during his 32 years in the House of Commons as a London Labour MP.
John McTernan wrote an interesting article for The Telegraph recently in which he argues that this increasingly intolerant atmosphere is being whipped up as a means of targeting and driving out critics of Corbyn's lacklustre leadership.
The obvious conclusion to be drawn is that while the Labour Party itself may be in real trouble, so too is the language of political debate which is being hijacked by zealots and demagogues.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/12036752/The-infernal-logic-driving-the-Labour-party.html
The infernal logic driving the Labour party
Corbynites claim that anyone with moderate mainstream views in the Labour Party is a Tory. Once you accept that, all the remains is for the sentence to be declared: sacking, demotion, deselection and ultimately, exit
Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leadership candidate, making a speech in early August for the annual commemoration of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Photo: Corbis
By John McTernan
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less."
