Two weeks after the centre-right candidate ousted Corbyn-loving Cristina de Kirchner in Argentina, now the left’s darling in the socialist paradise of Venezuela has been trounced in the polls. Nicolas Maduro’s Socialist party has lost control of the National Assembly, with the opposition gaining 99 seats. The happy results mean that political prisoners caged at the hands of the repressive Maduro regime will finally be released. Owen Jones, Diane Abbott, Grahame Morris, Colin Burgon, Richard Burgon, Tariq Ali, George Galloway, Ken Livingstone, Seumas Milne, Jeremy Corbyn – your boys took one hell of a beating.

In France, final estimates of their regional election results have the Front National in first place on 28%. The ruling socialist grouping slipped to 23.5%, while the right-wing grouping took 27%. Socialism is being rolled back across the world, just in time for Christmas…