Monday 10 July 2017

Today, The Screaming Stopped

This time last month, Theresa May called Jeremy Corbyn a terrorist sympathiser and a threat to national security who would bankrupt the country.

Today, she wants him as her policy adviser.

She does not, however, want the Right of her own party, and they now know it beyond doubt. They can just get lost.

Corbyn should call for the same spending per capita in Scotland, Wales, and each of the nine English regions as in Northern Ireland.

That policy was advocated in a speech to which he gave a standing ovation after it had been delivered by Len McCluskey to Saturday's Durham Miners' Gala, which was the largest ever. Yes, ever.

And Corbyn should call for the implementation of May's own programme of workers' and consumers' representation in corporate governance, of shareholders' control over executive pay, of restrictions on pay differentials within companies, of an investment-based Industrial Strategy and infrastructure programme, of greatly increased housebuilding, of action against tax avoidance, of a ban on public contracts for tax-avoiding companies, of a cap on energy prices, of banning or greatly restricting foreign takeovers, and of a ban on unpaid internships.

Every point of which she only ever adopted because he was there.

He has been setting the agenda for two years, all the while being screamed down as  a terrorist sympathiser and a threat to national security who would bankrupt the country (something that is in any case impossible, as he ought now to point out).

Today, the screaming stopped.

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