The internal enemies that Lord Kinnock eventually saw off now lead his party. It was a subtle highlight of something glaringly obvious: for millionaires protected by Tory policies, inequality bolstered by unfair taxes and buy-to-let properties really is hilarious.
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His Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, was given a special award by IRA-supporting organisation Sinn Fein.
Explaining his decision in the House, Mr McDonnell said: “When the circumstances and judgments change it is best to admit to it and change as well”. “Given the main reason Labour suffered such a catastrophic election defeat in May was because not enough people trusted our leadership on the economy, restoring that trust and a reputation for economic competence is the most pressing priority for the new leadership”. It had spotted his trap a mile away and walked in the other direction.
The Telegraph reported that Corbyn had “allowed members of his ministerial team to defy him”, giving them “permission to be “off the whip” and abstain”. Corbyn allies could not disguise what a few admitted was “a disaster”.
That prompted a backlash from many of Labour’s lawmakers who complain the U-turn undermines the party’s credibility in the eyes of voters.
The Labour leader replied with a joke as he said: “Could I bring the prime minister back to reality?” “It’s a lack of basic political management”.
“”Don’t they realise other people want what they’ve got?”” . “Lessons must be learned”.
Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips, who was involved in an angry spat with Ms Abbott last month after the front bencher berated her for criticising a shortage of women in Mr Corbyn’s top team, also weighed in. I doubt they will; they know that they sink or swim together. And confusion within the party wasn’t helped by the fact that even Jeremy Corbyn was apparently unaware of the shock change in policy coming from McDonnell, according to the BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg.
In their second encounter at prime minister’s questions, the Labour leader quoted from a single mother with a disabled child who will lose £1,800 a year as he contrasted the Tories’ tax credit cuts with their introduction of tax breaks for the wealthy.
This should have been a good week for Labour.
At least 2,000 people emailed the Labour leader in three days about the tax credit cuts and at least 3,500 about the housing crisis. It’s about control of the Labour Party.
Previously when speaking about racist party the BNP and its leader Nick Griffin, Corbyn said, “No-one should share a platform with an avowed racist and a fascist”, so why has he shared the stage with terrorist sympathiser Dyab Abou Jahjah, who praised the killing of British soldiers and called 9/11 “sweet revenge”.
So we are in series one, episode two of Prime Minister’s Questions starring David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn.
Mr Corbyn did not bite.
The MP retorted: “I spoke in debate & criticised Osborne”. Out-Torying the Tories was, after all, the official policy of Blair that ended in Labour’s transformation into a Conservative Party Mark 2. The SNP was the prime beneficiary in Scotland of Labour’s wipeout in May’s election.
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There is another danger for Labour. But by 2020, the game may have moved on. I was here. The Chancellor promised to wipe out the deficit in one Parliament.
