Some Real Extremists

Well, we really do have some extreme people in mainstream politics today.   No,  I am not talking about Nigel Farage.  I am talking about Jeremy Corbyn and members of his team.

Corbyn himself apparently still has sympathy for the attrocities of the IRA, defending his meetings with Sinn Fein weeks after they claimed to help the peace process in Northern Ireland.  He still favours a United Ireland.

Corbyn has also said he wants to re-write the school curriculum so that children are taught more about giw great Socialism has been and how terrible The British Empire was.  I think we should be teaching a balanced view of History in our schools, not left wing propaganda.

We have Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell who has said that Conservative MPs should be subject to "direct action" every time they step out in public and praised violence including the 2011 riots.  Back in 2011 he praised rioters because they "kicked the shit out of" Conservative Party headquarters in Millbank Tower in Westminster. 

Andrew Fischer, spoke with pride of "bursting through police lines in a protest about tuition fees back in 2010 and gleefully recalled how "hundreds of people were enjoying the role reversal of police being penned in and scared".

So, harrassment and violence rather than reasoned argument is the way to go apparently.

What I find the most utterly amazing was Corbyn and McDonnell's defense of student Ed Woollard, who received 32 months in prison for throwing a fire extinguisher at police from a seventh floor roof during the Tuition fee protests!

McDonnell said:

"That kid didn't deserve 36 months.  Actually, he's not the criminal.  The real criminals are the ones that are cutting the education services and increasing the fees... We've got to encourage direct action in any form it can possibly take".

Now, any sensible party leader would rebuke a stupid comment like that.  Not Mr Corbyn.  He defended McDonnell's defending of Woollard!  He told BBC1's Andrew Marr show that throwing the fire extinguisher was "a stupid and absolutely wrong thing to do" but added "I think the sentence he got was possibly disproportionate to the crime that he committed".

What?!  Is Mr Corbyn serious?  That kid could very easily have killed someone!  It was only by the grace of God that the object he threw didn't strike someone on the head. A charge of attempted murder wouldn't have been unreasonable in those circumstances in my view. 

I stand by what I said last week.  People should be allowed to speak their minds without the threat of censorship.  The most important reason is that it safeguards everyone elses' right to free speech, but it is also so we can be very clear about what people are really about.  The fact is we have some key Labour Party members who are real left wing extremist nasties. We should allow them to keep spewing their hateful stuff so we can see exactly what the Labour Party has become.  That way the British people will know never to vote Labour ever again!