Yesterday the new UK Labour Party Glorious Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, took time out from his busy schedule of demonising every aspect of progress ever made by the collected struggles of the English Speaking Peoples (as Winston Churchill called the Free World) to speak to the beleaguered “Labour Friends of Israel”.
I would bring you video of his speech but I’ve been told he asked that it not be filmed (Update: some video has slipped out see below)! Strangely enough he didn’t mind being filmed bashing Israel at Quds day in London, but talking to Friends of Israel is clearly something he wants as little record of as possible.
I’m told the phrase “siege of Gaza” came up. Probably close to the time when Gaza was shooting a military Grad rocket at Ashdod last night which had to be shot down by Iron Dome.
He managed to give his address without ever mentioning Israel. Which did not go unnoticed by the crowd:
Meanwhile Tal Ofer has exclusively uncovered Jeremy’s stylist!
And I wonder if that embarrassing picture of Jeremy standing in front of a sign saying “Friends of Israel” will haunt him for the rest of his political career? And no flag of Israel? Clearly the Labour Friends of Israel aren’t quite bold enough to pull a stunt and “stage” a photo like this:
https://www.facebook.com/photofoxsam/posts/994359273961251
I also saw this comment posted by a journalist:
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn addresses Friends of Voldemort, wisely avoids mentioning Entity-who-must-not-be-named
Update: Video of part of his speech
In other Corbyn news, he’s a plagiarist too:
Jeremy Corbyn has denied claims a key passage from his Labour party conference speech was from a 2011 blog.
Since his speech on Tuesday afternoon, it has emerged that elements were very similar to passages by writer Richard Heller.
Writing on the Guardian website, Mr Heller said he had offered the passage to every Labour leader since Neil Kinnock.
In a section of his blog written in August 2011 under the heading “You Don’t Have To Take What You’re Given”, Mr Heller wrote it would be “a good general theme for Ed Miliband and the party” and that it might work well in a conference speech.
Asked about the similarities between the two passages, Mr Corbyn said: “This was a new, modern, totally up to date speech.”
Mr Heller said he was “delighted” his thoughts had been used and said although he had “many disagreements” with Mr Corbyn “I now have to admire his rhetorical judgment”.
Writing on the Guardian, Mr Heller said: “I have always been proud of that passage, both for its content and its cadences, so much so that I have offered it regularly to every Labour leader from Neil Kinnock onwards and to other Labour speakers.”
Oh, by the way, here’s the video of last nights attempt by the “be-sieged” Palestinians in Gaza to murder the citizens of Ashdod. This would be an even more common occurrence, of course, if we didn’t check what went into Gaza.:
https://www.facebook.com/Lt.Col.PeterLerner/videos/vb.162605330447101/1043646915676267/?type=2&theater
