Corbyn Unplugged
I finally decided to name this post Corbyn Unplugged, but I swithered for a long time over its alternative - 'Corbyn Unhinged'.
But if you ask me, Robert Colville did a great public service by highlighting on Twitter recently some of the idiotic views and comments of the Labour leader.
THREAD: To put @TheSun front page re Corbyn and the Commies in context, here's a list of things Corbyn has said, done or written re foreign policy (will update as suggestions come in).
- 1) Claimed that the reunification of Germany was a mistake because it happened on capitalist terms
- 2) Attended multiple events run by DYR, founded by anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers (quote from one: 'I don’t think there is evidence gas chambers were used to exterminate Jews. I don’t think there is evidence of a policy of extermination.')
- 4) Claimed that the main problem with the Soviet Union was its 'inadequate industrial base' and decision to get in an arms race with the US
- 5) Said that Venezuela's achievements 'in jobs, in housing, in health, in education, but above all its role in the whole world as a completely different place' were 'a cause for celebration'. In 2015.
- 8) Praised the 'enormous respect and stature among the poorest people, particularly in Latin America' won by the Cuban dictatorship
- 12) Congratulated John Pilger, via EDM, 'on his expose of the fraudulent justifications for intervening in a ‘genocide’ that never really existed in Kosovo'.
- 14) Chairing the Stop the War Coalition, which shortly after he stepped down to lead Labour condemned America for its 'criminal' embargo of North Korea
- 15) Claimed that feelings of national pride are due to 'a very nationalist form of history teaching, [from which] stems racism and perverted feelings of superiority'
- 16) Claimed that the free market's 'very imperative is of ever hastening exploitation of all resources including people, and it needs armies and weapons to secure those supplies'
- 17) Supported the bit of the anti-apartheid movement whose slogan was 'one settler, one bullet', not the bit with Nelson Mandela in it
- 19) Inviting convicted IRA bombers to Parliament two weeks after the Brighton bombing that killed five people - while at least one victim was still dying in hospital
- 20) Helping to run a magazine which praised the same bombing for making the British sit up and take notice, and carried a reader's letter which mocked Norman Tebbit and included the line: 'What do you call four dead Tories? A start.'
- 21) Speaking annually at the Connolly/Sands commemoration in London to honour dead IRA terrorists and support imprisoned IRA 'prisoners of war'.
- 22) Taking money from Iran via appearances on Press TV - after it was banned by Ofcom for filming the detention and torture of an Iranian journalist
- 24) Claiming at the time that the Falklands War was 'a Tory plot to keep their money-making friends in business'
- 26) Repeatedly appearing on Kremlin-owned Russia Today, and tweeting: 'Try Russia Today. “Free of royal wedding and more objective on Libya than most.'
- 28) Speaking at the Christmas party of the Stop the War Coalition shortly after it claimed the Paris attacks were a case of the West 'reaping the whirlwind' from its intervention in the Middle East
- 30) Calling Hezbollah and Hamas his friends (at an event he was hosting for them in Parliament)
