Corbyn was in his is jumper-wearing, vegan element at Labour’s manifesto when he quoted poet Pablo Neruda:
“As the writer Pablo Neruda wrote so beautifully: ‘You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming’.”
Guido immediately thought the quote Corbyn chose had Maoist undertones from the dictator’s ‘let 100 flowers bloom’ campaign; however it seems Corbyn was channelling a different brutal communist entirely – as Neruda is, in fact, one of history’s most famous Stalin supporters, having written:
“To be men! That is the Stalinist law! . . .
“We must learn from Stalin”
Could Corbyn have chosen a more appropriate poet to quote at his manifesto launch?…
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…
In the gulags millions died under a red star. The exact number of victims of communism are a matter of historical controversy, did Stalin kill more than Hitler? What is not in doubt is that millions were killed, tortured and starved by those who wore a red star on their uniforms.
Even today the red star is still the symbol of death. The bombers raining destruction on Aleppo have a red star emblazoned on their tail fins:
It is as much a symbol of evil as the swastika. What do the Corbynistas think of the red star? They put it on top of Jeremy’s Christmas tree…
Aging left-wing pin-up Owen Jones tells Richard Bacon “there might come a time” when he runs for parliament, but “I wouldn’t end up as a minister”. No chance of the latter happening in the next 15 years, by which time he’ll be nearing 50.
Accosted by fans, the left’s poster boy was then intriguingly asked if he had a poster of Stalin on his bedroom wall. Laughing nervously, Owen half-jokingly replied that it “got taken down for some reason”. Teenage Owen was a Stalin fanboy, after all…
