It is shocking isn’t it? I mean, who knew Stop The War (sic) threw a Christmas party each year? You’d have thought they’d be more of a Winterval crowd. Perhaps there is hope for them after all.
But it is not at all shocking that Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Her Majesty’s loyal opposition, is, as matters stand, going to attend the most glittering event of the festive season. This is who he is. This is who he has always been.
This has been obvious, too. All you had to do was open your eyes. All you needed was the ability to read.
It is not, I think, an exaggeration to think that Jeremy Corbyn has more friends at Stop The War than inside the parliamentary Labour party. He certainly has more supporters there given that no more than a dozen Labour MPs actually voted for Corbyn in the Labour leadership election contest he wondrously – disgracefully – won.
So while it may be possible to have some sympathy with Hillary Benn, the puppet Shadow Foreign secretary (puppet because he has negligible influence on Labour’s foreign policy) when he was asked this morning about Corbyn’s chumminess with Stop The War the measure of that sympathy should be strictly limited.
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