Corbyn - the Left's Enoch Powell

[Strontium Dog]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... owell.html

Jeremy Corbyn is the Left’s Enoch Powell. His views and stances are equally repugnant. It’s just that because he is leader the of “my party” that I have refused to acknowledge it.

Powell was always at pains to paint himself as someone who did not personally entertain prejudice. He was merely an interlocutor between the body politic and those that did. He did not endorse racism. But he thought it important to engage with those who held such views, to understand them, and provide an outlet for their opinions.

Jeremy Corbyn is the same. Terrorists. Anti-semites. Isil apologists. He doesn’t share their views. But he offers himself as a conduit for them. So we can better understand them. Or so he says. And then off he goes, partying with those who chide us not to compare Isil with the Nazis, just as Isil are slipping lethal injections into the arms of disabled children.

A punchy article that will resonate with all of us who have fallen foul of Corbynite abuse.

[mistermack]

Enoch Powell was right about immigration. He was the only one who ever proposed stopping it.

I never liked his racism, but at least he challenged the politician's consensus of "immigration good".
The public were never asked if they wanted it. Because the answer would always have been no.

This country would be a great place now, if they had never had all the immigration. It was never for the people, it was always for the politicians.

In the UK right now, nearly 8 million people were born abroad out of 64 million.
But if you add the CHILDREN of immigrants, it's likely that the population would be less than 50 million now, if we hadn't left the doors wide open.

Fifty million would be too many, but it would be a hell of a lot better than sixty four million.
And the chances of islamic terrorism would be nil. And drugs and crime would be at rock-bottom levels.
So what have we got out of immigration?
Fuck-all.

Somewhere like Australia or Canada, or even the US can handle it. The country is big enough.
This one isn't. It's bursting at the seams.

[surreptitious57]

I think it is perfectly legitimate for Labour MPs to know they may be deselected if they vote a certain way on particular issues. Nobody has a God
given right to a seat for life just the five years they were elected to serve. Whether the methods used to deselect them are legitimate or not is a
different matter entirely. But scrutinising any elected representative is in principle both a proper and a necessary part of our democratic process