ALERT ON BRITAIN – AT 12:44 P.M. ET:   It hasn't been emphasized by the American press, but the very pro-American British government of Prime Minister Theresa May is in serious trouble.  There is a growing belief that it may not last the year.  May has made series of mistakes, and her campaigning in Britain's election earlier this year was abysmal, bringing the opposition Labour Party back into contention as a major party that could actually take power.

Ordinarily, this would be inside ball.  After all, there are other conservatives, besides May, who could become prime minister.  However, something very ugly is happening in British politics.  The Labour Party, always problematical for its less-than-enthusiastic attitude toward America, is now being run by the most extreme leader it has ever had – a hard leftist who admires Communist dictatorships, has little use for the United States, despises Israel, and is running a party that has become increasingly pro-Islamic and anti-Semitic.  Other than that, he's okay. 

His name is Jeremy Corbyn.  Read about him.   Some months ago, Atlantic ran a profile.  This will keep you up at night:   

Corbyn’s problems represent more than just the rough edges of a career back bencher suddenly thrust onto the dais—there’s an unrefined quality to his world view, a blinkered embrace of far-left positions over the years that make him seem divorced from reality. If left-wing populists don’t jettison their hoarier positions, they risk wreaking as much havoc as their right-wing populist counterparts—if they ever win outright, of course.

Corbyn isn’t an anodyne Danish-style socialist; at times, he seems willing to go all-in, Venezuela-style. He’s so far to the left that he makes Bernie Sanders look like Dick Cheney. “Thanks Hugo Chavez for showing that the poor matter and wealth can be shared,” he tweeted in 2013. “He made massive contributions to Venezuela & a very wide world.” Venezuela, for the record, is currently suffering chronic shortages of everything from food to toilet paper, a mass civil insurrection and murderous police brutality. Last November, Corbyn hailed Cuba’s dead communist dictator Fidel Castro as “a champion of social justice.”

There’s also Corbyn’s embrace of a virtual planet-wide rogue’s gallery of dictators and terrorists. “It will be my pleasure and my honor to host an event in parliament,” he said two years ago,“where our friends from Hezbollah will be speaking. ... I also invited friends from Hamas to speak as well.” Moments later, never-minding Palestinian suicide-bombings and rocket attacks against Jewish civilians, he insisted that Hamas is dedicated to “long term peace and social justice” and that Britain’s labeling of it as a terrorist organization is “a big, big historical mistake.” He reportedly praised Muammar Qaddafi’s “achievements” right at the moment NATO was debating whether or not to intervene on behalf of Libya’s civilian population in Benghazi, an intervention he opposed along with every other military action the U.K. has participated in since World War II. And while he has insisted that former prime minister and fellow Labour Party member Tony Blair should stand trial for war crimes, he was part of a movement in parliament opposing the U.K.’s decision to strike against Serbia’s Slobodan Milosevic—an actual genocidaire— denying that the butcher of Belgrade attempted yet another round of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo in 1999.

Corbyn also appeared on Iran’s hysterical state-run propaganda channel Press TV as a paid guest, even after the U.K. suspended its broadcasting license. When U.S. Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, Corbyn went on the channel to complain that there was “no attempt whatsoever that I can see to arrest him and put him on trial, to go through that process” and that “this was an assassination attempt, and is yet another tragedy, upon a tragedy, upon a tragedy.”

COMMENT:   Had enough?  It's worrisome that some polls have Corbyn as the most popular politician in Britain.  It is conceivable he could be the next prime minister, but unlikely.  "Conceivable" worries me enough.  And he is changing the Labour Party into a true national and international menace.

Follow events in Britain.  If Corbyn ever gets in, the American left will celebrate, and look for an equivalent for us. 

Quick, my pills!

November 9, 2017