Rich on borrowed time, warns Corbyn
JEREMY CORBYN has warned that the rich are on “borrowed time” as Labour announces plans today for a multi-billion-pound raid on companies that would force them to hand over 10 per cent of their shares to workers.
The Labour leader last night said he would break the mould of “neoliberal economics” that had dominated political thinking since the Seventies.
He added that a Labour government “was coming” for the “very richest in our society”. During The World Transformed rally at the party’s conference in Liverpool, Mr Corbyn said: “What we’re doing is challenging a neoliberal ideology that took over the world in, probably, let’s say, the Seventies or thereabouts; the whole idea of tax cuts, reduce the size of the state, increase privatisation and trickle-down economics later inherited by Margaret Thatcher.”
In a day dominated by Brexit and his party’s anti-semitism row, Mr Corbyn also made clear that Labour would back a second European referendum if its members demanded it and refused to apologise to the Jewish community for his previous remarks.
Meanwhile, John Mcdonnell will today unveil plans for mandatory share
Corbyn share her admiration? “I think what Dawn was doing,” said Mr Straight Talking Honest Politics, darting lightly away from the question, “was expressing support for the determination of the people of Liverpool… ”
Of course, we’re used to politicians behaving like this. But Mr Straight Talking Honest Politics was meant to be different. In reality, he dodges questions as often as anyone; all that’s different is the manner in which he does it. He does it not slyly, or glibly, but with an air of saintly, longsuffering forbearance, as though he’s both puzzled and hurt that anyone should cast doubt on the purity of his intentions – but is, none the less, prepared to withstand whatever pain is inflicted upon him, if that should be God’s will.
He really is too good for us. Whatever did we do to deserve him?