What They Don’t Tell You about Jeremy Corbyn

“Since the days of his childhood, Corbyn has been able to engage in his socialist and New Left fantasies, insulated from the catastrophic consequences when they are put into practice.”

Jeremy Corbyn is apparently a nice man. He is supposedly a man of the people who wants to make life better for the many, not the few. He is the last great hope for those wishing to make a better world out of the ruins of the old and is a man who has the clarity of vision to bring about future heaven from our present hell. He is the one to lead the British Labour Party to victory over the evil, benefits-denying, NHS hating, poor-man crushing Conservatives. And he is the light in our present darkness. Or so his followers believe. In reality, he is a socialist ideologue who has never changed his mind on any political matter since the 70’s. He hates the West, hates what it stands for, and has supported those who wish us harm. He could be Britain’s next prime minister.

Jeremy Corbyn was born in 1949 and grew up at Yew Tree Manor, Shropshire. Like many of his ideological fellows, he was not born to a family of limited means. His family came from an upper-middle class background, as did many of the revolutionary socialists of the 20th century. Growing up in prosperous surroundings, he and his parents were insulated from the consequences of the ideology they supported; not for them the Gulag, the 2am knock on the door, the food lines. Instead, raised in affluence, Corbyn, his family and peers could indulge in socialist fantasies in comfort, able to engage in their delusions because society allowed them to as a result of its own hard-won stability and relative prosperity.

This security blanket allowed him to rebel at school with little consequence and enabled him to travel abroad to Jamaica and Latin America after failing his exams. He was appalled by the inequality and brutality he witnessed on his travels, moving further down the path he stepped onto when he joined the Young Socialists at 16. He always identified with the plight of the downtrodden, whether in South America, Apartheid South Africa or in his own diverse neighborhoods when he moved to north London. His concern for the downtrodden appears genuine, as do his efforts to alleviate them. The issue is not so much the diagnosis but, rather, the treatment offered and the means employed. Like all utopians, Corbyn’s path to heaven has intersected with those who play with hell.