Intelligent, Principled and Honest – Corbyn Wins

By Sodium Haze

September 13, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Sodium Haze" -Despite every salaried hack in the corporate media, the nakedly hostile BBC, Labour’s panicked party machine and the political establishment all working to undermine him… he still won.

How blessed it was that Jeremy was squeezed on to the ballot paper at the eleventh hour – he is in his own modest and under-stated way a remarkable man.  Since he has endured innumerable insults I feel no shame in praising him to the heavens. 

How many of us would stand in any kind of election knowing in advance that our public and private life would be smeared by powerful media barons on a daily basis?

In the face of an ongoing barrage of press distortion,  smears and outright lies that targeted not just him, but his family and private life – he remained focused and debated with dignity and intelligence.

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He never softened his stance on any issue in order to pander to the press. How many of us could have stayed so loyal to our principles?

Faced with the vicious panic of the establishment on the one hand and a wave of excitement on the other, he had the presence of mind to stay calm and keep answering questions simply and honestly.

Corbyn is a very worthy winner of Labour’s leadership election and his exemplary campaign has breathed fresh life into The Labour Party and British public life – a desperately needed return to a politics of conviction and principle.

Labour’s spadocracy, focus groups, hollow sound bites and robotic careerist politicos have all been exposed  as cardboard shop-fronts and knocked aside as easily.

Exposed to a political debate outside of the electric fence guarded by the corporate media, Corbyn’s rivals flopped around like fish out of water. With nothing of substance to bring to such a debate, their campaigns focused on smearing the only candidate that did. The contrast with Jeremy couldn’t have been more illuminating – history won’t mourn their defeat.

Labour’s ‘Blairite’ warmongers and enablers of corporate power are now isolated within a party that has rediscovered its core principles and values. They may vow darkly to undermine the democratically elected leader of their own party, but the red tories have been exposed by this election as an invading virus  – they have no future in a revitalised Labour movement.

Corbyn will wisely preach the doctrine of unity and consensus in the days ahead – but the battle for the soul of The Labour Party has just begun.

Labour must never return to the heart breaking decades of neoliberalism and imperialism, with policy decisions imposed by a captured party machine.

Those people within Labour that turned a party of socialism and equality into something virtually indistinguishable from the tories, must be deprived by means of democratic structure of any levers that could see them directing Labour away from its values and traditions. This won’t be easy and they will squeal, plot and run to the oligarch press for help – but nothing worth doing ever is.

Labour has been pawning the family silver for too long – they must go to the electorate in 2020 as THE LABOUR PARTY – not a mauve frosted neoliberal joke. 

Many battles lie ahead – but this is a moment to celebrate.

One is reminded of the words of Tony Blair’s spin doctor Alastair Campbell who smeared Jeremy Corbyn as “bananas” and then said “we don’t do bananas…”

You don’t do banana’s Alastair? Well Jeremy Corbyn is leader of the Labour Party – how do you like them bananas?