STRAIGHT TALKING Brits won’t go for Red Jeremy’s ‘new’ politics

FROM UKIP’S DEPUTY LEADER

YOU’RE a teenager and your parents have gone out for the night. You think this is a great opportunity to show just how popular you are, so you decide to have a house party.

You’ll even put on free food and drinks. The best place to advertise the party, just to make sure loads of people turn up, is Facebook. So up it goes on your timeline.

People start arriving at your parents’ house at 8pm and soon the house is bursting at the seams.

You decide to shut the door to stop them from getting in and post on Facebook the party’s over. Now you feel silly.

That’s how German Chancellor Angela Merkel ( also feels right now. She told those coming from Syria that they could claim asylum in Germany and guess what, they came. Now she’s had to shut the border. Offer people freebies and they’ll come. You’d think a wily old politician like Merkel would know that. EVERY time I pick up a newspaper and see a picture of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader, I have to take a second look to be sure it’s true.

I simply cannot believe it. Maybe it’s because like everybody of my generation I’ve been brought up on a diet of carbon-copy Stepford Wife politicians who all look and sound the same.

In a perverse way, I find it all rather refreshing. Here’s a guy who doesn’t fit the Westminster stereotype and who actually believes in something. I might not agree with what he believes in, but at least it’s something.

The greatest pleasure I’ve had following Red Jez’s victory is watching ghastly Blairites, who did so much damage to this country, crying into their glasses of Chateauneuf du Pape. The likes of Chuka Umunna and Tristram Hunt have no room to complain as their candidate Liz Kendall was trounced by Corbyn, who received 15 times as many votes.

Red Jez seems to have galvanised Labour and has also brought lots of ex-Labour people back in to the fold to support his campaign.

A few weeks’ back I saw my fellow Liverpudlian Derek Hatton on TV saying he’d re-joined Labour and was backing Corbyn. This confused me because I seem to remember Hatton – or Degsy as he’s commonly known – railing against his type in the 1980s.

So I dusted down a copy of Degsy’s autobiography. In it he bangs on about the “Loony Left” and London “trendies”. By that he meant those in the London Labour Party more concerned about gender issues and gay rights rather than standing up for the working class as a whole.

And unfortunately for Degsy, I suspect that’s precisely what Labour has just elected. I don’t think Corbyn is a working class hero. I reckon he’s the kind of London trendy Degsy despised.

You know, those who obsess about things The Guardian relentlessly bangs on about, like Palestine and climate change, but which aren’t really the hot topic of conversation in local working men’s club in Newcastle or Hull.

I think the Labour Party is in for a pretty rough ride over the next few years as a result of Corbyn’s election. Blairites will snipe from the backbenches and the Tories will go on full frontal assault mode, highlighting Corbyn’s more outlandish ideas such as scrapping Britain’s nuclear deterrent, ceding some control of the Falkland Islands and withdrawing from NATO.

Corbyn may bring a “new kind of politics”, as his campaign slogan says, but I’m not convinced British people want the new kind of politics Red Jez is offering.

And I’m positive most of the Labour MPs don’t, either.