Labour Hostage Crisis
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.
