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Please Jezza, don’t tack to the right and be inclusive

The one bright spot, if you are a normal Labour Party supporter rather than a perpetual adolescent anti-austerity arriviste with lime jelly between the ears, was Cristina Kirchner’s message of congratulations to Jeremy Corbyn. Hopefully similar valedictions will arrive soon – from Jihadi John, and whatever addle-brained Islamist thug is leading Hamas, and from Putin and various murderous bog-trotting Feinians. The more, the better. Let the British public know who this idiot’s friends are. Iain Dale’s questions to Corbyn are apposite, as were Tony Parsons’ latest piece in GQ in which he said, having watched the deluded halfwits championing Corbyn’s election: whatever side these people are on, I’m against. Yes, absolutely.

One would hope that Corbyn sticks to his principles. He is, as we keep being told, a principled man. So he should stick to them. The worry is that he might try to be clever for the first time in his life, and tack to the right, attempt to be inclusive. Please don’t Jezza. That’s not why they all voted for you, the obsessive social media middle class lefties. Turn left and left again, follow your public-school educated faux left liberal political dream. And either destroy the party or force it to destroy you. One of the two. Right now, I don’t really care which. Me, I’m voting Ukip or Tory, in the meantime, like everyone else north of Highbury Fields.

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