But it’s not. It’s not just the vacuity of the vision. “Let’s build more
homes, let’s train more nurses, lets give everyone a really good wage.
Hoorah!!!”. No, let’s not. Let’s make everyone live in a tent, and employ lots
of witch-doctors and introduce a system of barter.
Or the ritualistic name checking. The Tolpuddle Martyrs. The Chartists.
The Suffragettes. The Miners. He’d stood with the miners in this very hall in
1984, apparently.
What genuinely amazed me was the staggeringly
simplistic – at times almost childish – level of Corbyn’s
analysis. So his policy of unilateralism was presented like
this. “Does a nuclear explosion anywhere in the world bring about peace? I met
the foreign minister of the Marshall Islands who as a child witnessed a nuclear
test. He saw his islands and his country used as a bombing range for testing
nuclear weapons, and they’re still paying the price. They’re paying the price
with destruction. They’re paying the price with cancers”. Telegraph.
