Labour Rival Draws Blood

Jeremy Corbyn's rival for the Labour leadership, Owen Smith, has drawn blood I would say with a stinging attack on Jezza for his lacklustre performance during the great EU referendum.

The problem for Corbyn, as he admitted himself on a live TV programme (see post below), is that remaining in Europe was not one of his big priorities.

When asked to rank the EU referendum in order of importance, Jezza's answer was an unbelievably lame "7 to 7.5" out of 10 even though it was undoubtedly the biggest single issue facing the country for many a year.

So Owen Smith has Mr Corbyn bang to rights if you ask me, when he says that the current Labour leader is relatively relaxed about the UK voting to leave the EU.

Unlike Jeremy Corbyn I certainly see nothing wrong is making life very difficult for the Brexiteers, as they would have done had the 52-48 vote been the other way round, and then calling for a second referendum if the cost of leaving looks very dodgy or dangerously high.

'Bog Standard' Officials (24/06/16)

I was unfazed one way or the other by Jeremy Corbyn's appearance on 'The Last Leg' TV programme which had the Labour leader arrive in a chauffeur-driven Bentley, dressed in a dinner suit and a full-length white fur coat.

After all if you have an image problem, then why not do something out of the ordinary to confound and confuse your political opponents.

But no, my real problem with Jeremy is that in answer to a 'dolly' question about how he would rank the importance of the next week's EU referendum on a scale of 1 to 10, Jezza responded with the unbelievably lame answer of "7 to 7 and a half".

Now when so much is at stake in next week's referendum, you would think a Labour leader worth his mettle would have emphasised, in the strongest possible terms, the very real threat to the UK economy, jobs and investment posed by the country's withdrawal from the European Union (EU).

So Jeremy's a complete fool if you ask me, a political half-wit, but that's what you get if you elect as Labour leader a man who rose to the dizzying ranks of 'bog standard' union official before finding a niche as a backbench Labour MP in the House of Commons for the next 32 years.

And while there are some decent trade union officials around, believe me there are plenty of complete 'duds' in the ranks too, as the Labour party and the country is finding out to its cost.