- Mon Aug 10, 2015 7:22 am
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I thought this growing media sub-genre deserved its own thread.
Today in the Mail; Corbyn has a beard
Today in the Mail; Corbyn has a beard
Ok Jeremy's not a champagne socialist but all his friends are on the Marxist GuardianCHRIS DEERIN: Stuck in a Left-wing Eighties timewarp, Corbyn’s simplistic brand of ‘beard knows best’ politics
On the second Sunday in June 1983, three days after Labour’s general election handbagging, the party’s far Left gathered for a post-mortem. The meeting was held at the Brixton flat of journalist and activist Chris Mullin, later an MP and minister in the Blair government.
It was attended by a who’s who of the Bennites: Tony Benn himself, newly defenestrated by the voters of Bristol South East, Audrey Wise, Michael Meacher, Ken Livingstone and others. Reg Race, who later had the distinction of losing Benn’s Chesterfield seat to the Lib Dems on the latter’s retiral in 2001, was in the chair.
Also in the room was a Leylandii-bearded councillor in his mid-30s, one of the few new Labour MPs to have been elected amid the carnage: the member for Islington North, Jeremy Corbyn.
This is the politics of the real, dug-in Hard Left: the beard knows best, whether it belongs to Marx or Lenin or Castro or Corbyn.
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They devour the rhetoric of the Guardian’s highly-paid class-war hypocrites.