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And as we found out in the UK at the last election, if someone offers anything radical that in even the slightest way threatens the establishment, then they are going to be demonised and driven out of politics by a campaign of hate and black propaganda - not only from their own opponents, but also from the media and their own party colleagues.
I had no issue with anyone disliking Jeremy Corbyn's policies or personality, that's fair game...but when people were convinced by a bent right wing media that serves the vested interest of a handful of billionaire tax exiles then that's sad. If you can convince people that a man is a racist even though he was arrested at anti-apartheid rallies then democracy is dead. The same media did not hold to account a Prime minister who tought it was amusing to call gay people 'bum boys' and referred to muslim women as looking like 'pillarboxes'.
As a friend of mine who grew up in Eastern Europe during the cold war told me. Our press was actually better at reporting than that of the west because at least we all knew we were being lied to so we could figure out the truth by what was omitted, In the west you still believed the press so you had no idea what was actually going on in the world.
Jeremy Corbyn did enough damage on his own to make people not like him, he held some controversial views and gave the impression he wanted to nationalize even more aspects of the British economy than Atlee's Labour regime did after WWII, then yeah, he's going to attacked by people who'll disproportionately be affected by his economic policies. Just because you personally supported his proposed economic policies if he'd gotten elected, doesn't mean it wouldve worked, long-term. Then again, way too many Labour politicians have turned into unreasonable idealogues as unwavering and annoying as Thatcherite Tories over the past 50-60 years then really present themselves as reasonable, realistic pragmatist administrators like Atlee was. That's why Atlee and to a lesser extent, Harold Wilson, were and are considered two of Labour's best PM's and why they achieved so much. They were pragmatic reasonable politicians, not fringy idealogues like George Callaway.
And no, don't make apologies and try to pretend Labour didnt or hasn't had a problem with antisemitism masquerading around pro-Palestinian solidarity or support over the past 25-30 years. It exists whether you, Geldo, or Corbyn like to admit it or not. There's been too many Jewish ex-Labourites or current Labour members who have forking come forward and said they were made to feel unwelcome or had hateful, antisemitic slurs thrown at them, and Corbyn was one of those top Labour officials who allowed this sentiment to grow or hang around. Ken Livingstone, former mayor of London, and George Callaway have also been accused over the course of their careers of making antisemitic comments, or snide cariurist stereotypical, snide remarks about Jews that got them rightfully blasted.
And so what if he got arrested in anti apartheid demonstrations, quite a few Republican neo-cons used to be left-wing liberals in the late 60's and 70's who opposed the Vietnam War, supported the Civil Rights movement or major progressive movements of the era? You think just because he took part in anti-apartheid marches makes him or others immune or incapable of being possibly bigoted or holding subtle biased or scornful views towards certain minorities? You're not that naive and you're not that stupid, either.