Ahead of the Labour leadership election result, David Cameron warned that Jeremy Corbyn would take Britain back ‘to the days of Michael Foot and Arthur Scargill’ if elected. Well, a week into Corbyn’s leadership of the party — and several gaffes later — it turns out that there is one small snag with regards to Cameron’s premonition; Corbyn is just not left wing enough.
Arthur Scargill — who founded his own Socialist Labour Party after the party changed the wording of Clause IV — says Corbyn is ‘not left wing enough to lure people back to Labour’.
Arthur Scargill tells Sunday Politics Yorks & Lincs @jeremycorbyn isn't left wing enough to lure him back to Labour. 1.30pm BBC One #bbcsp
— Tim Iredale (@iredalepolitics) September 20, 2015
Speaking on the Sunday Politics in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, the 77-year-old socialist and former president of the National Union of Mineworkers said he would not be supporting Corbyn. Scargill — who once argued for a top tax rate of 90 per cent — thinks the new Labour leader is not radical enough.
Meanwhile Corbyn can at least still count on the support of his old friend George Galloway at this testing time. The former Labour MP, who is running as an independent candidate for London mayor, has taken to Twitter today to criticise Labour’s mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan for bad mouthing Corbyn in an interview with the Mail on Sunday:
I feel Sadiq has made a grave mistake in his blunt attack on his leaders and on Ken. As for the thrill of kneeling with a Quran in hand…
— George Galloway MP (@georgegalloway) September 20, 2015
Should Corbyn require a more supportive mayoral candidate, he knows where to look.
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