{"id":24640,"date":"2015-09-12T11:53:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T16:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=24640"},"modified":"2018-05-17T20:29:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T01:29:22","slug":"uks-labour-party-swerves-hard-left-elects-jeremy-corbyn-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=24640","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s Labour Party Swerves Hard Left, Elects Jeremy Corbyn Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK&#8217;s Labour Party just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/e2029c2e-5965-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html#axzz3lXmbXD00\">elected hard lefty Jeremy Corbyn as leader<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>How hard lefty? He makes Bernie Sanders look like Bob Dole:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nothing should detract from his record as an unreconstructed socialist peacenik. He is stridently anti-American and has declared himself a \u201cfriend\u201d of Hamas and Hizbollah. Despite the growing belligerence of Russia, he is inclined to take the UK out of Nato and would scrap Britain\u2019s independent nuclear deterrent. Of particular concern is his critical stance towards the EU. It is now far from certain that Labour will support continued UK membership of the bloc at the forthcoming referendum.<\/p>\n<p>On domestic policy, he lacks any credibility. He would nationalise Britain\u2019s railways and utilities and remove the private sector from public services. Despite his claim to green credentials, he has pledged in the past to reopen the UK\u2019s coal mines. He toys with forcing the Bank of England to underwrite deficit financing for any purpose, regardless of the effect on inflation. Under Mr Corbyn, Labour will, in the words of one party MP, become a \u201c1980s Trotskyist tribute act.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now the question becomes: Which party replaces Labour as the main opposition to the Tories in 2020, SNP or UKIP?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK&#8217;s Labour Party just elected hard lefty Jeremy Corbyn as leader. How hard lefty? He makes Bernie Sanders look like Bob Dole: Nothing should detract from his record as an unreconstructed socialist peacenik. He is stridently anti-American and has declared himself a \u201cfriend\u201d of Hamas and Hizbollah. Despite the growing belligerence of Russia, he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":16,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,13,49],"tags":[2873,2862,73,390,2884,2451,778],"class_list":["post-24640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-elections","category-foreign-policy","tag-communism","tag-elections","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-jeremy-corbyn","tag-labour","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24640"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36065,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24640\/revisions\/36065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}