Jeremy Corbyn, ultra-left wing leader of the Labour party, has been busy telling us that his mob is now "staking out the new centre ground in British politics". What a load of old nonsense.
Corbyn is an unreconstructed left wing extremist, the type of socialist who isn't far removed from being an out-and-out Communist. Given half a chance, he'd introduce punitive taxes on anyone who has anything and squander the takings on a raft of ruinous and madcap schemes. His new 'centre ground' is, in reality, way to the left of anything ever experienced in this country and would result in a return to the dark days of the 1960s and 1970s. It is nowhere near the centre of anything.
As if to prove this point, there is to be a strike on British railways on new Year's Day, designed specifically to disrupt the lives of ordinary people at a time when they are meant to be ringing in a Happy New Year. Back in the bad old days, strikes were commonplace, the trades' unions had enormous power and what they mostly did with that power was destroy various parts of the British economy. Decades later, we have still not fully recovered from the damage done, some industries having been so badly hurt that they have disappeared altogether.
Corbynism would see a return to those days of union power. He would gladly see the unions holding company managements to ransom. He would see mass strikes and eventual mass unemployment as major industries gave up the unequal fight and moved abroad. The pound would sink and inflation rocket; the economy would collapse.
This would be the reality of Corbyn's "new centre ground". How can anyone be taken in by him ?
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