Corbyn’s dismal legacy will go down in history

SOME people’s names become so synonymous with an action that they are formally recognised in the dictionary. The magnificent Delia Smith has given her name to a style of cooking while the 19th-century Irish land agent Captain Charles C Boycott’s name came to mean a principled refusal to attend meetings.

What will Corbyn come to mean after the latest act of iniquity by the Labour leader? Shameful or a person seeking destruction and disruption, or extremist, or enemy of the state?

This is certainly the meaning we can draw from his refusal to engage in Brexit talks with Theresa May.

It is no surprise that one of his predecessors as Labour leader, former prime minister Tony Blair was lost for words at the disgraceful position taken by Jeremy Corbyn.

Thankfully, decent Labour MPs such as Hilary Benn and Yvette Cooper have ignored his instructions not to hold talks with the Prime Minister.

His demand that no deal be taken off the table is a ploy to avoid talks as in the event of the EU not compromising, it is the only sensible way forward.

Corbyn’s quasi-communist policies, associations with terrorists, and failure to tackle anti-Semitism had already marked him out as a malign influence.

But even he should realise that in the current crisis differences need to be put aside in the national interest.

Sadly, the spirit of national duty which defined former prime ministers Ramsay MacDonald and Clement Attlee has been replaced by a power hungry desire to bring this country to its knees embodied in Corbyn.