Find your regular round up of Wisdom from Tel below…

Bile and Yet More Bile

The covertly right wing so-called ‘political commentators’, in the Guardian staff can be relied upon to be the most vicious in relation to Jeremy Corbyn.

 “Mr Corbyn said one thing while doing another… he is a narcissist … he is a victim only of his own arrogantly self-pitying, self-denying decisions (A Rawnsley, Observer)

 “As one [unnamed – ed.] community figure put it to me – what rational basis did we have to thinking Labour [under JC] would not discriminate against Jews once in government, when they would have the full power of the state at their disposal” (J Freedland, Guardian)

The conundrum that is Sir Keir

 The disgraceful treatment of JC is being portrayed as Sir Keir’s ‘clause IV moment’ i.e. when Sir K adopted the mantle of Tony Blair. The Tory press / media are effusive in their praise of a ‘strong leader’. Yet Sir K insists it was wholly the General Secretary’s decision and nothing to do with him.

 So either, the move against JC was nothing to do with Sir K and thus not a ‘clause IV moment’. Or, Sir K is hiding behind a string of falsehoods – not a characteristic of a ‘strong leader’.

Johnson thinks he’s Winston Churchill

 The handout to the armed forces amounts to a huge 15% rise in real terms. This is at the expense of foreign aid and all the public sector workers who will have their wages frozen. Compare:

 Sir Keir welcomes the additional ‘defence’ spending (Guardian)

“When 280,000 are homeless, spending on such boys’ toys is obscene (Simon Jenkins, Guardian)

 P.S. In October a bill that would allow a long list of official bodies to spy on people, passed its second reading in the House of Commons, with tacit support from Labour.