Jeremy Corbyn labours for minority vote flogging Tamil cause

Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn and big beasts of the party threw their weight behind the Tamil community saying that crimes against the Tamils is still going on in Sri Lanka.

At a meeting held in the House of Commons, to commemorate a series of events connected with crimes against the Tamils, Corbyn promised to make human rights and international justice the centre piece of foreign policy in any future Labour government, that would help further the Tamil 'cause'.

He stressed, the party would back the right of the Tamil people to self determination and agreed with the "Tamils for Labour" agenda, that included an international judicial mechanism to bring to justice those guilty of war crimes and other violations of international law.

The much-hyped, new look Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn that was supposed to swamp the tattered Conservative Government under Theresa May, after its earlier showing at the last general elections here, has not materialised.

Labour made few gains in the May 3 Local Government elections even in London.

While Labour has consistently supported the Tamil community and hoped to garner the minority vote, especially in electorates considered marginal, the local elections showed that the Corbyn 'phenomenon' which threatened to overwhelm the heavily bruised Tories, since David Cameron's resignation three years ago, has waned even among Labour supporters, because his old -style leftism has not endeared him to moderate Labourites. So he wants to rally minority support.

The chances of Labour coming to power, to implement its proposed foreign policy, seems slim at the moment, unless the Tories make a hash of things in the coming months.