Sep 02 2016

This isn’t Wizard Tiddlywinks at Hogwarts

If you search Google News for Jeremy Corbin today you’ll find that J.K. Rowling can’t sleep nights over the prospect of the impending Corbyn romp over Owen Smith in the Labour Leadership election (about which more in a moment). Indeed ‘Corbyn is no Dumbledore’ and-

One day in the far distant future we’ll look back and we WONT LAUGH, LABOUR, BECAUSE THIS ISN’T BLOODY FUNNY.

Now admittedly that last was tweeted at 3:31 in the morning Wednesday after her earlier tweets had not met the customary adulation.

I’m a firm believer that Art exists independent of the Artist (one of many reasons I write pseudonymously) and finding out that she also supports the illegal occupation of Palestine (you can be pro-Israel and still admit it is illegal, violating as it does many laws, treaties, and UN resolutions) does not detract even the tiniest bit from my enjoyment of Harry Potter which I consider a modern classic. One wonders what she is thinking however, because she so obviously has got the wrong side of History on this issue (said we’d get back to it).

Ballots are being mailed this week and the latest (and probably final) poll by The Times/YouGov has Corbyn leading by a crushing 62% to 38%. This is a larger margin that his last victory (60% to 40%). He leads in every demographic and by political orientation. Smith is closest (but still loses) among those who voted “Remain” (remember the ostensible reason for this coup is that Corbyn was insufficiently zealous in his support) and get thrashed quite soundly by Corbyn among party members (52% to 40%), registered (pre-January 12th £3ers and limited registration period £25ers) supporters (70% to 25%), and affiliated (Union) supporters (54% to 33%). Among Constituent Labour Parties (CLP) he leads 84% to 16%. The only group in which Smith has an edge is those who joined before May 2015 (about 25% of current membership) 68% to 32%.

Oh, and that “electability” thing? Members think 33% to 12% that Corbyn is more likely to win a Prime Ministership than Smith. 57% think he is doing “well” as Leader, 53% ot 25% agree with him on Trident (his position is that it’s an expensive boondoggle for the Military/Industrial Complex).

All of this comes despite a campaign of systemic disenfranchisement led by the Blairite Tory-lites of the Parliamentary Labour Party (you know, the traitors who started the coup) on the National Executive Committee.

For them this is not just a fail, it is a legendary, epic, failure of catastrophic proportions.

If the traitors defect there are reputable reports that they will only attract 25% of PLP members and 18% of the regular ones, far short of any credible claim to the Party name and apparatus. In polls they fare even worse, attracting a mere 12% of the general electorate. In short, Liberal Democrats only more feckless.

Within the Labour Party their prospects are hardly better. Corbyn would have to be an idiot to give any of them a position of trust and responsibility ever again and even were he willing I doubt very much the membership would stand for it.

Indeed while mass deselection (think a combination primary/impeachment) is not currently in the rules (which could change with Corbyn’s newly strengthened control of the National Executive Committee just as the membership was disenfranchised by the Traitors) once regular Constituent Labour Party meetings resume (suspended by the NEC in another example of disenfranchisement) there is nothing preventing them from replacing their Members of Parliament with others who are more… representative. Remember, this is a group which breaks 84% to 16% Corbyn.

For me this is a harder wait than the 3 weeks before Christmas, but I’m fairly sure I won’t get a lump of coal, and J.K.?

You’re wrong. This is bloody funny.

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