Fresh from his latest call for “revolution” earlier this week, John McDonnell – the man who will be running the economy if Labour win power – has now appeared on stage this afternoon at a rally in Trafalgar Square to speak under not one, but two, banners featuring mass-murdering communist dictators Joseph Stalin and Chairman Mao. Just the 50 million deaths between them…
Labour are holding their annual northern conference, which kicked off at last night’s private gala dinner and auction hosted by Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Watson. Interest piqued at one lot in particular – a copy of Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book, signed by Tom and Jerry themselves. According to a co-conspirator in the room, the pocket-sized communist pamphlet went to a lucky bidder for £400. As Mao once said, “a revolution is not a dinner party…”
In his surreal response to the Autumn Statement, John McDonnell genuinely got out a copy of Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book and started quoting from it, before throwing it at Osborne. Was it Seumas Milne’s copy?
