He’s back. A year after losing a second general election in a row, Jeremy Corbyn has launched his ‘Project for Peace and Justice’ with a video on YouTube. He appears in a natty off-white jacket, with a tinge of blue, like a referee at the Henley Regatta. Speaking in a low, measured voice, as if reading a story to children, he recites an inventory of global problems which he proposes to solve.
Behind him is the project’s slick new signage. The P and the J form an elongated oval, in smart white-striped livery, like the classic layout of the 1970s Scalextric track. This attractive piece of artwork must have cost a packet. And somebody has to pay for it. Which is where you and I come in. Visitors to the website, (confusingly called the Corbyn Project), are asked to donate a fiver or more. Once there’s enough in the kitty, Corbyn can crack on with eradicating hunger, war, inequality and so on.
Of course we already have countless bodies appointed to examine problems and create solutions.
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