In their own damning words, so full of contempt for British values, proof Corbyn and Co are unfit to rule
OVER the last weeks, Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott and John McDonnell have presented themselves as reasonable and moderate statesmen. But this investigation by GUY ADAMS into what they actually believe — and, more importantly, what they’ve said publicly — reveals a very different and frightening insight into this trio who want to lead us...
ANTI POLICE
In 1977, while Corbyn was running Hornsey Labour Party, a poster displayed at its HQ depicted policemen as pigs wearing helmets. The local newspaper dubbed it a ‘filthy insult’. Corbyn founded a far-Left group called Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory in 1979. It said: ‘The capitalist police are an enemy of the working class. Support all demands to weaken them.’
In 1981 he blamed violent riots in his Wood Green council ward on ‘ oppressive’ policing. The Hornsey Journal responded by accusing ‘rabblerousing’ Corbyn of ‘supporting the overthrow of our society by mob violence and the emasculation of law and order’.
London Labour Briefing (a farleft newspaper Corbyn helped publish) accused The Met of having ‘acted like an army of occupation’ during the Brixton riots in the same year, which injured 280 officers. An editorial said: ‘The street fighting was excellent but could have been (and hopefully in future will be) better organised.’
Another article accused police of ‘strutting round Brixton harassing young blacks, lurking around public toilets to arrest gay men, protecting fascist demonstrators’.
ON REMEMBRANCE Sunday in 1986, three years after becoming an MP, Corbyn laid a wreath at the Cenotaph commemorating rioters who’d died in clashes with the police. Tory MP Teddy Taylor said: ‘Mr Corbyn should be ashamed.’
TYPICALLY, Corbyn voted against laws that might assist the police in stopping terrorism at least 17 times in his career, opposing moves to ban Al Qaeda, restrict the movement of terror suspects with so-called T-Pim orders (Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures) and to allow police and security services emergency access to email and phone records.
Addressing a Stop The War rally in 2011, he boasted: ‘I’ve been involved in opposing anti-terror legislation ever since I first went into Parliament in 1983.’
AS RECENTLY as 2015, Corbyn opposed the police being able to shoot terror suspects (something that saved many lives in London on Saturday), declaring: ‘I am not happy with the shoot-to-kill policy in general. I think that is quite dangerous and I think it can often be counterproductive.’
MOCKED OUR SOLDIERS
One of the many loony Left causes Corbyn has supported was a campaign in the early eighties against ‘the infiltration of military literature into reading material’ in Haringey’s libraries.’
In 1982, Corbyn opposed a council motion offering ‘ loyal support’ to British troops heading to the Falklands.
He tabled an alternative which declared: ‘We resent this waste of unemployed men who are being sent to the Falklands to die for Thatcher.’ He added that sending a UK task force to liberate the British territory after the invasion by Argentina was ‘ a Tory plot to keep their money-making friends in business’.
The same year, when Corbyn’s IRA chums were murdering British soldiers, London Labour Briefing magazine carried a report from Ulster which accused our soldiers of ‘cruising the streets with all the arrogance of male punters in Soho’ and ‘leering at women and spitting their contempt at the children’.
For good measure, it claimed that ‘black squaddies’ were ‘ made to bring up the rear of a street patrol as these are the positions where a soldier is more likely to be shot’. And it went on to say that troops also like to ‘shoot dogs’.
MORE recently, Corbyn blamed our Armed Forces for causing natural disasters. In 2005, in his column for Morning Star (the hardleft newspaper with historic links to the Communist Party) he endorsed a bizarre conspiracy theory that claimed the floods in Devon in 1952 were was caused by ‘the RAF experimenting with creating rain as a weapon of war by seeding small clouds with a cocktail of chemicals that caused the storm and flash flood’. In 2013, Corbyn took part in a protest at RAF Waddington calling for the Armed Forces to be banned from the ‘obscenity’ of using drones — devices crucial in the West’s war against ISIS and used to kill the terror group’s British executioner Jihadi John.
Jihadi John is someone Corbyn would have allowed to walk our streets, judging by an interview the MP did in 2015 with Arab TV station LuaLua, in which he said moves to ban jihadis from returning to Britain were ‘strange’ and ‘legally very questionable’.
CHEERLEADER FOR THE IRA
THROUGHOUT the eighties and nineties, Corbyn and McDonnell were the IRA’s most vigorous allies in Westminster, attending the annual gathering of the Wolfe Tone Society, an organisation which honours dead IRA members and imprisoned volunteers. The event’s 1986 programme declared: ‘Force of arms is the only method capable of bringing about a free and united socialist Ireland.’
AT AN Irish Republican event in 1987, Corbyn took part in a minute’s silence to
commemorate eight IRA men shot dead by the SAS as they travelled to attack a police station in County Armagh. ‘I’m happy to commemorate all those who died fighting for an independent Ireland,’ he said.
In 1996, the year of the Docklands and Manchester bombings, Corbyn invited Gerry Adams’s deputy, to the Commons with a group that included several suspected IRA terrorists. The Labour chief whip accused Corbyn of putting the Commons ‘at considerable and unacceptable risk’.
Corbyn put up £20,000 of his own money to stand bail for roisin McAliskey, an IRA terror suspect facing extradition to Germany, where authorities wished to prosecute her for killing a soldier’s wife during a mortar attack on a UK army base. (eventually, she was not extradited.)
LAST month, in a Sunday morning television interview, Corbyn was asked five times to ‘unequivocally condemn’ the IRA. Five times he declined.
After the Brighton Bomb, in which the IRA murdered six people, London Labour Briefing (a far-Left monthly journal that Corbyn helped run), published a reader’s letter stating: ‘What do you call four dead tories? A start!’
Next to a picture of Lord tebbit, who was seriously injured (and whose wife would be wheelchairbound for life) it added: ‘try riding your bike now, Norman!’
Weeks after the Brighton attack, Corbyn invited two IRA terrorists to the Commons for a Pr stunt where they ‘ protested about strip-searches in Northern Ireland’s prisons’.
A FEW weeks after the IRA’s 1996 bombing of Manchester which caused massive devastation, Corbyn agreed to host the launch of Adams’s autobiography in the Commons. the book included an account (allegedly fictional) of killing a British soldier.
TERRORIST CHUMS
IN 1984, Corbyn lobbied a variety of ‘Latin American cultural organisations’ on behalf of what he called ‘comrades in the M19 movement’ in Colombia. these ‘comrades’, according to the sunday times, had car-bombed, shot, tortured and killed their way across the country in recent years.
the men accused of the Lockerbie bombing, in which 270 died, were also helped by Corbyn. In 1992, he signed a letter supporting their bid to avoid trial in either the Uk or America. ‘One has to ask whether they would receive a fair trial in a British or Us court,’ he said. After 9/11, Corbyn wrote in the socialist Campaign Group News, a paper for left-wing MPs, blaming the tragedy on the West and its ‘ blanket support for Israel’s occupation of Palestine’. IN a 2009 speech, Corbyn said: ‘It will be my pleasure and honour to host an event in Parliament where our friends from hezbollah will be speaking …I’ve also invited our friends from hamas to come and speak.’ Asked why he’d called the terror groups ‘friends’, he said: ‘It was inclusive language which with hindsight I would rather not have used. I regret using those words.’
FINSBURY Park Mosque, where Islamist rabblerouser Abu Hamza once preached, counts local MP Corbyn as a longstanding supporter. In 2014, he joined a group there to welcome Abdallah Djaballah — a controversial imam who has called on fellow countrymen to ‘wage holy Muslim war’ against Britain and the U.S.
CORBYN has opposed at least 13 Prevention of terrorism bills. In socialist Campaign Group News, he has said he regularly hosts meetings by ‘international solidarity groups’ at which ‘many express sympathy for armed insurrection’. Corbyn asked: ‘Are they, or those attending, to be criminalised?’
IN 2009, Corbyn called for hamas to be taken off the terror list, telling Al Jazeera: ‘Contacts with hamas by politicians are increasing day after day. All want to find a peaceful solution to the problem.’
FOLLOWING the terror attacks in Paris in 2015, Corbyn said he opposed police being allowed to shoot terror suspects, saying he’s ‘not happy with the shoot-to-kill policy in general’.
UNPATRIOTIC, ANTI-ROYAL
IN 1976, the ‘self-confessed republican’ opposed plans by haringey Council to celebrate the forthcom- ing silver Jubilee, according to the local newspaper, making ‘one or two less-than flattering remarks about the monarchy when the question came up’.
When the date itself came, he refused to let the Union Jack fly in the Labour Party’s offices.
IN the early Nineties he said: ‘A Labour government must abolish the house of Lords as a matter of very high priority’, and used a Morning star column to call for the royal family to be evicted from Buckingham Palace to ‘smaller, more modest accommodation’.
he was accused of insulting the monarchy by wearing a red jacket when solemn eulogies were made in the Commons in tribute to the Queen Mother who had died.
On the day Prince William married kate Middleton, he used twitter to urge followers to ignore the event and watch Vladimir Putin’s propaganda TV station,
Russia Today, instead. ‘Try Russia Today. Free of Royal Wedding and more objective on Libya than most,’ it read.
When standing for the Labour leadership, he called for the Queen to be stripped of her Royal Prerogative, the nominal powers she gives to the Cabinet to enable them to pass some laws without seeking the consent of Parliament. His REPUBLICANISM is partly rooted in his awkward attitude to patriotism — which was exposed in 2005 when he criticised the Labour Cabinet minister David blunkett for giving a speech endorsing british values.
‘[blunkett’s] problem is that he thinks patriotism is a progressive and generous force,’ wrote Corbyn in socialist Campaign Group news.
‘somehow we are encouraged to delude ourselves into thinking britain is therefore a force for good in the world… most countries self- delude to a huge extent, but britain, more than most.’
GYPSIES’ HERO
LABOUR’s election manifesto pledges to support travellers and their right to ‘ a nomadic way of life’.
Corbyn has been down this road before. and it didn’t end well.
in 1975, when Haringey was suffering a cashflow crisis, Corbyn successfully campaigned for the council to give annual grants to the Gypsy Council because gypsies were a ‘forgotten group’ in the borough.
eight years later, as council planning chairman, he let gypsy families illegally occupy a paddock in Tottenham. Within a year, they turned the site into what local newspapers called an ‘ excreta-ridden’ outdoor toilet that resembled a Third World slum.
Corbyn then intervened to block council officers from evicting the gypsies.
as a result, the mess worsened and there was an outbreak of dysentery that led to four teachers and 20 children from a nearby school having to be treated in hospital.
even one of Corbyn’s Labour colleagues said he ‘should be ashamed’ for allowing the area ‘to degenerate into a filthy ratinfested mess’.
When the gypsies eventually left, Haringey Council faced a bill of £43,000 [more than £100,000 in today’s money] to clear up the site. Typically, Corbyn told reporters: ‘i am not prepared to apologise for my actions.’
ANTI-SEMITISM
AFTER Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour presenter emma barnett last week exposed Corbyn’s inability to cost Labour’s childcare policy, his supporters targeted her with anti-semitic abuse. one Twitter user called her a ‘Zionist shill [stooge]’.
Perhaps this is not surprising, considering that Corbyn himself has called Hamas, the terror group whose charter called on followers to kill Jews, his ‘friends’.
over the years, Corbyn has visited Palestine courtesy of interpal, a charity banned in the u.s. for alleged terror links. He’s attended events run by Paul eisen, a convicted Holocaust denier.
in 1982, Corbyn’s London Labour briefing magazine compared israel to Holocaust- era Germany, saying: ‘The parallels between Kristallnacht [a night of anti- Jewish violence in Germany in 1938] and the Holocaust now being visited on the Palestinians is all too clear.’
more recently, he wrote an article in socialist Campaign news calling israeli premier ariel sharon a ‘hated butcher’.
The following year, he visited the middle east, writing that ‘Gaza was like entering an open prison’ and accused the israeli army of ‘wanton destruction’.
on his return, Corbyn addressed an anti-israel rally in London attended by hundreds of members of banned extremist group al-muhajiroun. an account of the event in the Weekly Worker noted that demonstrators clad in fake suicide vests chanted ‘gas, gas Tel aviv’.
in 2013, he wrote to the Foreign office criticising ‘israel’s criminal politicians’ and the following year he wrote in the morning star of attending a ceremony in Tunisia where ‘wreaths were laid’ on the graves of terrorists responsible for the 1972 massacre of israelis at the munich olympics.