It Won't Be Long Before Corbyn Moves Into Number 10 Downing Street & I Shudder At The Thought

The Trump presidency has wrought chaos in this country, but there is plenty of chaos across the Atlantic. To the surprise of no one, the British House of Commons overwhelmingly rejected the Brexit deal submitted by Prime Minister Theresa May by a vote of 432-202. While I am surprised that she has managed to stay on this long, her time remaining at Number 10 Downing Street may very well be measured in hours. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has tabled a vote of no confidence which could very well bring down May's Tory government by this time tomorrow.


Should this happen, there could be a general election or Corbyn could be asked to cobble together a government? Either way it spells disaster for the Tories. After surviving a leadership review only a month ago, May pledged not to run in the next election. If an election is called tomorrow who leads the Tories? Whether it's a matter of days or weeks, it appears Jeremy Corbyn will soon call 10 Downing home and I absolutely shudder at the thought.


Of course, May has been utterly incompetent and the Tories have now held power since May 2010. Labour was due to regain power regardless of who was at its helm. But Jeremy Corbyn is every bit the bigot and demagogue that Donald Trump is. The legacy of his leadership is to allow an environment where anti-Semitism has flourished in his party to the point where one of his own Jewish MPs no longer believes she is welcome in the party after he claimed Zionists weren't versed in British history and didn't understand British irony.


When Corbyn becomes Prime Minister this flourishing of hatred will expand well beyond the scope of the Labour Party and put the very existence of British Jewry in peril. As Britain's former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks put it in an interview with The New Statesman last summer:


We can only judge Jeremy Corbyn by his words and his actions. He has given support to racists, terrorists and dealers of hate who want to kill Jews and remove from Israel from the map. When he implies that, however long they have lived here, Jews are not fully British, he is using the language of classic pre-war European anti-Semitism. When challenged with such facts, the evidence for which is before our eyes, first he denies, then he equivocates, then he obfuscates. This is low, dishonest and dangerous. He has legitimised the public expression of hate, and where he leads, others will follow.

Now, within living memory of the Holocaust, and while Jews are being murdered elsewhere in Europe for being Jews, we have an anti-Semite as the leader of the Labour Party and her majesty’s opposition. That is why Jews feel so threatened by Mr. Corbyn and those who support him.

The only silver lining in Corbyn becoming Prime Minister is that he will now have to deal with Brexit and there's a very good chance he will handle it every bit as incompetently as May did. The danger here of course is that Corbyn will somehow find a way to blame the Jews (and by extension Israel) for his troubles as Trump has done with Mexicans and Muslims. The greater danger is that a critical mass of the British public will take him at his word.