The wrong man, in the wrong place, at the right time.
It all went south when he disavowed the mural, silly fool.
Indulge me, good people of the 5 filters, here’s a song I wrote shortly after he became leader.
A song for Jeremy Corbyn
Lyrics :
You got more than you bargained for,
isn’t it so?
You thought they wouldn’t notice
that it was for show
You thought they were just playing
and now you know
Now you are the target
You must not show
Weakness
Don’t show weakness
'cause there’s a long way to go
You came in from the margins
we pulled you through
Now you’re in the open
what will you do?
Now the pack are closing
and their eyes are on you
Will you turn to face them
or will you show
Weakness
Don’t show weakness
Weakness
Don’t show weakness and alarm
Don’t show your tail and run
They will have won
and all your work in vain
All your work in vain because of weakness
And they’re coming after you
And there’s a long way to
And they’re coming after you
And there’s a long way to go
Thanks all, it gives me no pleasure to be so right. You’d have thought Corbyn would have grasped that in order to achieve what could have been the culmination of his lifes’ work he’d have to be utterly ruthless. If not him, then those around him. Recent events have shown that he has learnt nothing.
Aaron Mate has it about right, but Corbyn will never do this and, good man though he is, I despise him for wasting the last chance to halt the UK’s slide into suicidal irrelevance, absent much violence, suffering and death
‘With the saga set to rumble on for a further twelve weeks, the question will surely be asked even by more middle-of-the-road sections of the Labour Party — is it worth it, Keir?’
Yes it is. It’s a deliberate policy of making anyone who joined because of Corbyn leave by insulting them. Once that’s done the party can can get funds from corporate donations and disregard the membership almost entirely, the remaining members being people who agree with all this anyway. At some point Luke Akehurst will be involved in a dreadful scandal and hang himself in a bizarre way. (that’s just my speculation and fervent hope)
Good for democracy! All those thousands who joined in hope when JC was elected should now recognise that ex-Labour is bound for the same irrelevant marginal party bin that contains such as the lib-dums, and should set their hope to working actively for a new, real, radical-left mass party, to fill the large slot that ex-Labour has vacated. Sturmer can get a hugely over-paid sinecure job in the - collapsing - USA, like Cleggover; oh, and that Miliband guy… (h/t Mary at TLH for ‘Cleggover’)
One possible route to off-loading the irrelevant yesterday’s people of the neoliberal-silliness, zionism-arse-kisser tendency - people such as “dame Hodge, the Barking yenta” (Norm Finkelstein), for example - might be for a widespread dissidence such as this one over JC, leading to a civil war within the party, which results in the booting out of the B’Liarite neoliberal betrayers of socialism, and a re-booting of a Newold, solidly social-democratic Labour party.
It’s either that or a new party such as the Workers Party of Britain - which might even end up affiliating with a re-born grass-roots socialistic, egalitarian Labour - if that happens…