Thank God we’ve got them on the case, keeping the world safe
from grassroots, working-class political organising. Or we’d be in real trouble.
Their latest brilliant expose came in the Dispatches programme on Monday night,
which effectively dissected the underhand tactics used by Labour Party members
to control the party by making it more democratic and responsive to
members. A typical totalitarian extreme
left plot, involving public meetings and reasoned argument.
The Labour Party, having long ago fought the battle with the
Loony Left, now shudders as the spectre looms large at the fringes of the
party. In fact, they loom so large on
the fringes that they support the leader of the party himself. An enemy within, you might say.
This enemy within is the “Trotskyist”, “entryist” (no, I’m
not sure what that means either, but it was used as a slur and repeated several
times, so I understand what it was meant
to mean) Momentum group. Momentum is a
gaggle of gnarled, grizzled, hard left benefit claimants who want to smash the
capitalist state, while leaving their local dole office intact. (Except the ones that are teachers, or
something.) These are the people who
simply cannot accept that Mrs Thatcher won the argument and that Socialism is
as old-fashioned as it is dangerous. They are the fabled Reds Under The Bed of
cold war-era America, and they represent the single biggest threat to democracy
ever.
This episode of Dispatches
featured Neil Kinnock, who you might remember from his spectacular reforms to
the Labour Party, which resulted in a stunning two-election losses to a deeply
divisive, unpopular incumbent. In fact,
Kinnock is the longest-serving leader of the opposition in British political
history; an achievement for which he was granted a baronetcy for services to
Labour election losses, ascending to take his place among those who bravely
attempt to avoid any Labour election wins ever occurring again. (It is rumoured that many current Labour MPs
can look forward to similar awards in the New Years’ Honours List.)
Kinnock was naturally horrified by the thought of a Labour
election win, as all right-minded people should be. He was also disgusted by the thought of
Socialists in the Labour Party, having spent years trying to get rid of them
during his double-election-losing term as party leader. Despite the effects of his historic tenure,
Kinnock is still committed to a strategy of beating the Conservatives by being
more like the Conservatives in every way – thank
God. Such realism has been sorely
missing from Labour since Corbyn took the throne.
Kinnock is such a realist, in fact, he understands the
Labour Party’s position in British parliamentary terms, an entity existing only
to add a veneer of democratic legitimacy to the rule of our social
betters. As such, Kinnock was an
unqualified success. I still don’t know
how he managed to lose the 1992 election, but what an historic achievement! A
winner’s loser, you might say.
This latest Dispatches
investigation follows on from Channel 4’s most important documentary about
nothing, Isis: The British Women
Supporters Unveiled, which was ingenious – the
programme title was literally true, in that undercover filming showed Muslim
women unveiled. It also managed to
generate, from an entire year’s worth of secret filming, a series of vague
allegations and circumstantial evidence – thereby undermining the
sensationalist title. Any tabloid
sub-editor would have been happy with the headline; and the consistency of tone
in Channel 4 documentaries is impressive.
The new Dispatches
programme on Momentum could not have been more timely; with Syria on fire, the
USA tearing itself apart, Russia using its increasing dominance to threaten its
neighbours, the two in open hostility; the government in disarray over Brexit;
the decline in living standards; and with the Conservative Party’s alleged
electoral crimes, this was the perfect time to make a mainstream documentary about
a broad political campaigning organisation based on nudges, winks,
unsubstantiated allegations, secretly filmed public meetings and a politician making
a joke in a lift.
One of the brilliant things this documentary will do is send
up the Trots by playing into their “mainstream media hates us” conspiracy
theories in a deliciously deft double-bluff – giving them enough rope to hang
themselves with. Watch them scream and
whine about corporate media bias while the adults do the real work. Enjoy, Comrades!
Jeremy Corbyn’s shock leadership election win has upset the
natural balance of British Parliamentary politics. The pinko stalking horse for the Red Horde,
despite posing as a decent, normal man, with normal scruffy clothes, represents
a threat to the order that has sustained our formal democracy for decades – a democratic
order which must be kept safe from the stampeding hooves of the bewildered herd.
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