We’ve been spared a Marxist Prime Minister who planned to decimate Britain in months
LESS than five years ago, hordes of Tories were joining the Labour Party to vote for Jeremy Corbyn as its leader.
The old Marxist, they gleefully said, was just so obviously beyond the pale. A famously moderate country would never dream of electing a Prime Minister who saw Venezuela as a good example to Britain. Let alone an IRA supporter.
Labour under Corbyn would be doomed for a generation — and the Conservatives would be laughing all the way to the polling station. But Corbyn turned out to be no laughing matter.
Exit polls last night suggested the Tories were set to win a clear majority — and Britain had not elected a Marxist to be its next Prime Minister.
Even so, a chunk of the population yesterday were prepared to disregard Corbyn’s horrific litany of failures and betrayals to vote for the lethal communist who has swallowed the Labour Party.
Why? Because millions of young Brits were unable to grasp what a Corbyn government would really mean.
When you told them Jeremy Corbyn thinks Britain should be modelled on Venezuela and the regime there has left citizens literally eating their pets, they rolled their eyes in tired disbelief.
When you told them John McDonnell praised the “bravery” and “bombs and bullets” of the murderous IRA, they made vague noises about history being history.
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When you told them Corbyn would sever Britain’s ties with natural allies such as the US and align us instead with Putin’s Russia, they reminded you they don’t like Donald Trump anyway.
Like the anti-vaccination parents who don’t remember the horrors of polio, the millennials who skipped to the polling station in bright-red hats and scarves weren’t born when hard-left union domination was ripping Britain to shreds.
And their schools — which quite rightly drilled them in Nazi genocide — never taught them about the mass-murders and starvation caused by 20th-Century communism.
They grew up when politics meant centrist Tony Blair and centrist David Cameron politely bickering over who had stolen whose manifesto pledges.
So they naively believed all British politicians — including their hero, Comrade Corbyn — must be moderate and reasonable too.
And if you are blind to the dangers of the most extreme man ever to run for high office in Britain then yes, his “radical” plans sound really rather good.
Mired in student debt and with no hope in hell of getting on the property ladder, young people have it rough. Corbyn’s pledges to address their grievances might be economic fantasy but what millennials hear is that he listened to their problems and he “gets it”.
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Their love for him was contagious. Group-think has always been a big phenomenon among the young but social media makes it 20 times worse. Once Corbyn became a “thing” on Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter, it was easier for young people to go with the flow.
If you spent the past three years chanting “Oh, Jeremy Corbyn!” you were part of the gang. If you didn’t, you were at risk of being branded “Tory scum”.
Any misgivings friends had about letting a Marxist into Downing Street were quickly dismissed, as they clambered atop their moral high horse.
As for the parents of these young people — men and women who experienced the Winter of Discontent in 1978-79 and who remember the misery and fear of living under the IRA — their Corbynista sympathies are harder to fathom.
Some are genuinely suffering after years of austerity, which Tories failed to explain was a necessary consequence of Labour bringing the country to its knees.
Others — the arch-Remoaners among us — are suffering from pure pigheadedness. They know perfectly well Corbyn would have been far more damaging for Britain than Brexit but dug in their heels and voted for him anyway.
Their cosy middle-class fantasies about Britain were blasted apart by the referendum and they can’t forgive the politicians who let the silly old racists have a say. This time, we have been spared a Marxist Prime Minister who planned to decimate Britain in months.
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But a line has been crossed. Horrific accounts of Corbynista anti-Semitism have been successfully dismissed as smears, the voices raised against them discounted as political agitation.
Facts detailing their racist insurrection recast as “fake news”. And the man in charge of them seriously eyeing Downing Street.
It is time for us Brits to stop resting on our laurels. We have never endured the misery and poverty of living under an extreme political regime. But that doesn’t mean we never will.
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