It’s not that Corbyn doesn’t know how to play the game, he know’s full well what the game is. He just refuses to play it. That’s what really drives the government, the media, the establishment, and especially the Red Tories in the PLP in their desperate attempts to stop him getting his message across. Trying to undermine him at every turn, flat out bare faced lying, misrepresenting him, silly scare stories etc. His refusal to engage in personal attacks, despite continuous attempts to get him to bite must really infuriate them. He shrugs it off, remains calm and sticks to the matter at hand. They will become more and more hysterical because they are genuinely terrified of a Corbyn led government. The penny has dropped, he is a genuine ‘radical socialist’, the real deal, who won’t be bought off, won’t kneel at the feet of Murdoch and Dacre and the rest of the press barons. These people know that a Corbyn led government will mean that their snouts in the trough culture, the whole gravy train will come grinding to a halt. As the last election showed, once an election has been called and the media rules kick in whereby they are required by law to give equal and equitable coverage, when people get a chance to hear what Corbyn has to say, not a media interpretation of what he says, they are supportive. Most of what Corbyn espouses, once the media spin is removed is just plain common sense. In mainland Europe it is considered moderate social democracy. All this nonsense about ‘loony leftism’ is exactly that, nonsense. He may be an ‘old man thrust into a position’, but given the chance to hear what he has to offer without spin by the mass media more and more people are realising that far from not being suited, he suits it very well. He may not be the greatest orator, (read bullshitter), in the world, but what cannot be disputed by any honest person is that he is a decent caring man, with long held principles which he will maintain in the face of concerted attempts to force him to abandon them. The never ending campaign by the Israel Firsters to try and mark him with the Anti-Semite stain being a classic example. He, pretty much alone among Western political leaders, has steadfastly campaigned for and vocally supported the human rights of displaced Palestinians, and is unafraid to criticise the State of Israel for their brutality. The campaign to undermine Corbyn on this issue is led and financed by the Israeli Embassy in London, using their useful idiots in the Labour and Tory Friends of Israel groups, as exposed by the Al Jazeera documentary which caught them bang to rights. A foreign state openly undermining the democratic process in this country. Now where have we heard that before! To any honest and fair minded person, the suggestion that Corbyn, a man who has spent his whole career fighting on the side of anti-racism in all it’s forms, and has the voting record to back this up, is himself some kind of racist is clearly disgusting and desperate nonsense. And is increasingly being seen as such by anyone with a functioning brain. In a week in which we have seen the racist policies of the governing Tory Party coming home to roost in all their sickening glory, it is beyond ironic that they expect the public to believe that Corbyn is a racist. All Corbyn has to do is carry on as he is doing, ignore the media vilification, stick to his guns quietly focussing on the issues and refusing to be drawn into the personalization bollocks. Once any campaign is underway and his message is allowed to be heard without fear or favour he will do just fine.
After the events of the past week in which the reputation of this country has been dragged into the gutter, any reasonable, decent person who would even consider voting for this absolute shower of shite who are governing us now should have a long hard look in the mirror and then give their head a wobble.