Car Crash Corbyn
Hardly a day goes by in which the hapless Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn is not embroiled in some controversy or other, often of his own making.
Take Jezza's comments at the launch of a Labour report into allegations of widespread anti-semitism with the party at which Corbyn said:
"Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu Government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations."
Now when I read these words I took them to mean that Jeremy Corbyn believes the Israeli Government to be no better than the murderous cowards of the Islamic State who regularly kill innocent civilians in the name of their religion.
Soon after making these comments, Jeremy tried to claim that he really didn't mean to draw such a comparison after all, but if not then God alone knows what he was trying to say.
Labour Hostage Crisis (04/07/16)
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is supposed to be a potential Prime Minister, someone capable of leading a UK government and with the skills required to deal with friendly and not so friendly foreign powers.
Yet for days Corbyn’s aides have been refusing to let the Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson, have a one-to-one meeting with his boss, on the basis claiming that Watson would try and “bully” the leader into resigning.
The newspapers report that a senior source, close to Corbyn (which is normally code language for his official spokesperson Seamus Milne) said they had blocked Watson from speaking privately with Corbyn because they have a “duty of care” towards him, before adding:
“They [Watson’s aides] want Watson to be on his own with Corbyn so that he can jab his finger at him,”.
“They [Watson’s aides] want Watson to be on his own with Corbyn so that he can jab his finger at him,”.
“We are not letting that happen. He’s a 70-year-old man. We have a duty of care … This is not a one-off. There is a culture of bullying. Maybe it’s a Blairite/Brownite thing.”
If you ask me, these crazy people are effectively holding the Labour leader hostage while sending a message to the wider world that Corbyn is incapable of chewing gum and farting at the same time.
