Comrade Corbyn Proves Himself a Populist
In his first major speech of the campaign, Jeremy Corbyn attempted to define this election as one of The People vs. The Establishment. Member of Parliament for Islington North since 1983, the Labour leader proved touchy when asked whether he himself might not be part of that very 'Establishment' he had just spent fifteen minutes railing against so gleefully from a horse as high as Babel. Tax the Rich! Bash the Banks! His message was a simple one: the faults of Modern Britain are due, it appears almost solely, to the insatiable rapaciousness of a dastardly top-hatted 'elite' straight out of the pages of Soviet anti-Capitalist propaganda. These puppeteers of the 'rigged system' hold a vice-like grip on Corbynland, gobbling up all the wealth for themselves and leaving none for the rest of us (wealth, of course, being a static entity in Corbynland; there's only so much to go round). The solution: Tax the Rich! It's so simple. Squeeze th...