Maureen Lipman In The Daily Mail

[Deskdiary]

Quite an impassioned piece.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7782737/MAUREEN-LIPMAN-blasts-Jeremy-Corbyn-damning-verdict-makes-plea-decent-people.html

Some on this site will decry it simply because, as they oh so wittily say, it's from the Daily Wail, but it's not a Daily Mail opinion piece, it is an impassioned plea from a prominent, and generally very will liked, Jew.

I genuinely find it head-scratchingly astonishing the amount of support Corbyn has - it is no secret he has courted evil terrorist anti-Jew organisations, it is no secret he has courted the IRA, it is no secret he is an intellectual minnow, it is no secret he is simply a 70s throwback Marxist agitator, it is no secret that he is economically stupid, and it is no secret he is a liar (granted all politicians are liars - so I shouldn't hold this against him).

And yet he has been elevated to the status of a demi-god.

I can only assume his supporters do not possess the ability to comprehend the disastrous consequences of their vote if, and the very thought makes my blood run cold, Corbyn and Labour were to win.

I'm no fan of Johnson, but surely he is by far the much lesser evil of the two, isn't he?

[emmie]

DD this has already been posted i think...
I hope that the Tories get a stonking victory
and that Corbyn is put out to grass where he
belongs.

[Bobbisox1]

Well said ML

[emmie]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Politics/Question1686231.html

[Ken4155]

As a floating voter who only made his mind up which way to vote 3 days ago - postal vote deadline looming - i have to say that, after carefully weighing up all my options, had i decided to vote Labour i would not be swayed by yet another plea from a member of the Jewish community, no matter how impassioned. And i suspect that those who intend to vote for Corbyn will be of a similar mind. The reason? Because whether anti-semetism is rife in Labour, Racism rife in the Conservatives or anti-democracy rife in the LibDems matters not a lot to the reason the majority of we non etnic minority electors cast our votes. I would be totally surprised if this piece has changed the mind of a single Labour voter at this late stage.

[emmie]

I think Johnson will win and that the country can get back to some sort of normal day to day existence..
if they really can get Brexit done all to the good.

[drmorgans]

I can't defend Corbyn's lack of action on antisemitism within Labour or some of the people he has chosen to get into bed with, literally and metaphorically.

But you could argue that Labour, after a pretty disastrous run of leaders and election results had to do something different. They did; they went back to their socialist, state-controlled roots and prepared a very different manifesto to anything since Michael Foot.

Wrong leader, or wrong policies, or both. The ballot box will decide.

[dannyk13]

Ken // I would be totally surprised if this piece has changed the mind of a single Labour voter at this late stage//
But it might have changed the minds of floating voters.

[Ken4155]

Danny, if they're still floating today, i guess they most likely won't be casting a vote. If you're going to vote for someone or something, you don't just toss a coin and hope for the best.

[dannyk13]

Ken, I sill think that a floating voter who had , perhaps, decided to vote Labour could be influenced to change his/her mind.

[naomi24]

//I genuinely find it head-scratchingly astonishing the amount of support Corbyn has///

I think dyed in the wool Labour voters retain images from years ago of the downtrodden working man, tin lunch box in hand, cloth cap on head, trudging out in the snow to earn a pittance. They suffer from ‘dear old dad’ syndrome - the legacy of generations of indoctrination, failing utterly to recognise that times have changed enormously; that dad now enjoys his creature comforts as much as the next man, and that the Labour Party ’dad’ voted for is a very far cry from Corbyn’s mob, who given the opportunity, will have dad right back where they think he belongs, aspiration not being something to be encouraged.

[emmie]

i think my friends who are staunch labour supporters won't necessarily be voting for him this time round, i get the feeling they don't like Corbyn very much at all

[Ken4155]

Very condescending of you, Naomi. In the past, when i've voted Labour, it wasn't because it's what my parents and grandparents did. It was because, at that particular time, their policies suited me better than the rest. And that's how i always cast my vote. I suspect the majority do likewise.
Danny, i was speaking from personal experience. If i haven't been able to make my mind up come deadline day, i usually abstain. Hasn't happened often, mind.

[Ken4155]

I should also add that i give the average person enough credit to realise that certain newspapers have their own agendas and would not be swayed by their content. According to some papers, Corbyn is a terrorist, Swinson has fairies at the bottom of her garden and Johnson eats babies:-/

[dannyk13]

Ken//certain newspapers have their own agendas//
I agree, but this was a personal letter and could have been published in any paper.The Mail just happened to be Miss Lipman's choice.

[dannyk13]

Also it has been reported in numerous other papers.

[naomi24]

Ken, why condescending? Labour is regarded by its supporters as 'the party of the working man', and despite today's Labour being anything but what the working man would, realistically, want, tradition reigns not only in voting Labour but in despising the Conservatives.

[ToraToraTora]

amazing anyone still votes Labour.

[emmie]

they do, in their millions

[diddlydo]

It matters not a jot to Labour supporters what Lipman has said in the Daily Wail as they won't be reading that Tory rag.

[naomi24]

Would it matter if she said it elsewhere, diddly?