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2019-11-27 Britain

h/t Instapundit
You ever wondered how it was that Romans actually enjoyed watching people torn to shreds by wild animals in the Colosseum? Watch BBC interviewer Andrew Neil’s merciless inquisition of Jeremy Corbyn, which aired this evening in the UK. You can’t watch it on the BBC Player in the US, but the full thing is embedded in the Daily Mail story, or, the Conservative Party is airing it on its Facebook page. Once you see it, you’ll understand why. It’s like Corbyn sat down with Neil as leader of the Labour Party, about two weeks before the election, and proceeded to commit slow-motion political suicide.

The Guardian doesn’t have a review up at this writing, but earlier in the day it published an editorial saying Labour hasn’t done enough to deal with Jew-hatred in its ranks. Here is its straight news report on the Neil interview, which focuses on how Corbyn refused multiple times to apologize to British Jews for grotesque anti-Semitism within the Labour Party ‐ this, on a day when the Chief Rabbi of the country called Labour out for it, and the Archbishop of Canterbury stood with his Jewish counterpart in solidarity. I kept watching Andrew Neil put the question to Corbyn, thinking, "Why can’t this man say that he’s sorry? Why is he dodging?"

The anti-Semitism thing took up the first 10 minutes of the 30-minute interview, though it could have been dispatched with quickly had Corbyn handled it differently. But the whole thing was just staggering. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a senior politician destroy himself quite like that in an interview.

...Watch the last five minutes of the thing, in which Corbyn can’t bring himself to say he would give the kill order to British special forces if they cornered the head of ISIS as he was about to order a terrorist attack. That, to me, is an even bigger deal than the anti-Semitism mess (which is pretty damning), because it has to do with national security and terrorism. Corbyn is a wet-noodle leftist to the marrow. The Daily Mail is nobody’s idea of a left-wing newspaper, but even Labourites will concede that tomorrow’s cover accurately sums up their hapless leader’s interview:

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-27 03:22|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The minuscule number of people who dribble at the grauniad will be pleased though.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-27 03:29|| 2019-11-27 03:29|| Front Page Top

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-11-27 03:57|| 2019-11-27 03:57|| Front Page Top

#3 That’s a nice bit of cleverness, Herb. Thank you! I reset the dimensions to width=550 height=350, because it was a bit outsized, though not enough to break the Burg. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2019-11-27 11:36|| 2019-11-27 11:36|| Front Page Top

#4 "Silly Rabbi... Trix are for squids"

Posted by Lex 2019-11-27 11:53|| 2019-11-27 11:53|| Front Page Top

#5 The bad news is we can't force people who vote for Corbyn into disintegration booths.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-27 13:45|| 2019-11-27 13:45|| Front Page Top

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