LET’S get this straight. Jeremy Corbyn was happy to talk to the IRA without preconditions.
He was happy to talk to Hamas and Hezbollah without preconditions. He is happy to hang around with Stalinists and anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers and apologists for terrorism. But he won’t talk to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The Labour leader’s refusal to discuss Brexit with his Tory — and come to that, Lib Dem, SNP, DUP and Plaid Cymru — counterparts reveals the utter smallness of the man.
For two years, Jezza has been noisily demanding that Theresa May “reach out” to other parties. Yet the moment she does, he comes over all snooty and stand-offish.
He won’t join any discussions about our EU policy unless and until the PM pledges that we won’t leave without a deal.
That condition is absurd. Mrs May, as Corbyn well knows, is also keen to avoid No Deal. But the only way to avoid that is to agree on, you know, a deal.
That’s precisely why the PM is talking to the other party leaders.
The only effect of publicly ruling out No Deal — as several MPs in all parties have been pompously doing — is to encourage Brussels to dig in and thus, paradoxically, to make No Deal more likely.
What explains Jezza’s sudden coolness? Is it simple tribalism of the sort that has now taken over the top ranks of Labour?
Immediately before the vote, for example, Richard Burgon, the Corbynite Shadow Justice Secretary, repeatedly described Conservatives on TV as “the real enemy”.
After the confidence motion, another Labour MP, Danielle Rowley, posted a picture of the Conservative benches with the caption, “People are dying because of these people”.
Is Corbs unwilling to talk to Tories because he sees them as evil murderers?
I don’t think so. Part of the old booby’s schtick is that he will talk to anyone. It’s how he justifies his meetings with Irish Republicans and jihadi extremists.
It’s how he justifies taking money to appear on a TV station backed by the ayatollahs in Tehran.
He has even said that he would be prepared to negotiate with the head-hackers of IS in order to facilitate peace.
I don’t think so. Part of the old booby’s schtick is that he will talk to anyone. It’s how he justifies his meetings with Irish Republicans and jihadi extremists.
It’s how he justifies taking money to appear on a TV station backed by the ayatollahs in Tehran.
He has even said that he would be prepared to negotiate with the head-hackers of IS in order to facilitate peace.
No, there is a much simpler explanation for why he won’t talk to the PM. It would force him to take a public position on Brexit. And that is the last thing he wants to do.
Corbyn is an Old Left Eurosceptic. He took what was, effectively, the Moscow line during the Cold War, namely that the EEC was the economic arm of Nato.
He has even said that he would be prepared to negotiate with the head-hackers of IS in order to facilitate peace
Daniel Hannan
He disliked what he saw as its capitalism, and knows he will be able to implement a far more radical form of socialism once Britain is no longer constrained by EU rules on competition and state aid.
He also knows that the overwhelming majority of Labour MPs want to stay in the EU.
During the referendum campaign, he reluctantly went along with his party, though he made little secret of his distaste.
Although we’ll never know for sure, I have a strong suspicion, looking at his face as he left the polling station, that he secretly voted Leave.
Be that as it may, he has since kept the Labour coalition together by attacking the Government while saying nothing about what he would do.
That ambiguity has allowed him to appease his party without alienating the millions in Labour’s northern heartlands who voted Leave.
From a self-interest point of view, it made sense. But the impact on Britain’s negotiating position was dire.
Labour’s tactic has been to demand impossible conditions from the Government. As Barry Gardiner, the Shadow Trade Minister, was overheard saying in Brussels: “It’s bollocks — always has been bollocks.”
The trouble is, that by adopting its testicular conditions, Labour has ended up arguing for something that would represent the worst of all worlds.
The main stated difference between the two parties is over the customs union. Labour says it wants Brussels to control Britain’s trade policy in perpetuity after we leave.
People are furious at the game-playing in Westminster
Daniel Hannan
As recently as last year, Corbyn was against the customs union on the unarguable grounds that “It is protectionist against third- world countries”.
That was the reason successive Labour Eurosceptics, as far back as Clement Attlee, opposed joining the EEC.
But last February, spotting an opportunity to vote against the Government without having to commit to anything, Labour somersaulted and started demanding customs union membership.
Be clear: Being outside the EU but inside its customs union would be disastrous. It would keep the costs of membership without the benefits of leaving.
As former Canadian PM Stephen Harper, a massive Anglophile and a Remain supporter in 2016, put it recently: “It is really critical that this country rediscovers itself as a trading nation. If you do not do that, then frankly the Brexit experience will be bad.”
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When I put that point to another member of the shadow cabinet in a BBC green room, he looked at me as if I was mad. “We’re this close to the first truly socialist government in Britain,” he told me. “You really think we care about the customs union either way?”
Yet it is precisely that cynicism that voters are turning against. People are furious at the game-playing in Westminster. They accept that MPs have differing views, but they can tell when a party is advancing bogus arguments for purely selfish reasons.
In the last analysis, Jeremy Corbyn has shown himself to be unwilling to work in what he himself sees as the national interest. That is what makes him unfit for office.
- Daniel Hannan is Conservative MEP for the South East.
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