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September 12, 2015
British Labour Elects Corbyn

The British Labour party just found back to light. Against resistance and condemnation from the Blairite Labour establishment, as well as the Grauniard and other pseudo-left media, the party members elected Jeremy Corbyn as their new leader. Corbyn received more votes than any Labour leader, including Blair, before him.

The veteran left winger got almost 60% of more than 400,000 votes cast, trouncing his rivals Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall.

Mr Corbyn was a 200-1 outsider when the three month contest began.

This victory is biggest party mandate for any political leader in Britain's political history.

In social economic policies Corbyn is a moderate left, neither a socialist nor a communist. In foreign policies he prefers (unlike Bernie Sanders) non-intervention instead of imperialistic and militant behavior. A genuine old flavor European social-democrat. We could certainly need more of those to kick out the neoliberal centrists that captured and domesticated the original social-democratic parties over the last decades.

It is amusing to observe the genuine horror Corbyn's election creates within the doom mongering Blairite establishment as well as with the Conservatives. We can also expect the U.S. establishment in both parties to follow this line:

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, giving the Conservative Party's reaction, said: "Labour are now a serious risk to our nation's security, our economy's security and your family's security.

"The RED MENACE is coming!!!"

Congrats to Labour in Britain. May other European social-democratic parties follow your example.

Comments

What is a “neoliberal centrist”? Neoliberals are by definition right-wing extremists.

Posted by: ee | Sep 16 2015 6:22 utc | 101