What You Should Know About Britain’s Labour Party Leader

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What You Should Know About Britain’s Labour Party Leader

This is about something that goes far beyond the man.

When Ed Miliband lost to David Cameron in Britain’s May general elections, Miliband’s Labour Party had to find a replacement. It found one in Jeremy Corbyn.

On September 12, Corbyn was elected the new leader of the Labour Party—the United Kingdom’s equivalent to the liberal Democratic Party in the United States.

Labour is Britain’s second-largest political party, and currently its largest opposition party. It’s not a fringe party—it is popular and mainstream. It has far more members than Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party (ukip).

Jeremy Corbyn could become Britain’s next prime minister in five years, just as his fellow Labour Party predecessors Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were.

He is the voice of millions of people. His actions speak just as much as his voice; there’s no mistaking what he stands for.

In summary, Jeremy Corbyn is a radical liberal and an Islamic terrorist-sympathizer. He hates Britain, its history and its traditional institutions like the monarchy, the military and aspects of its educational institutions. He is dangerous to the future of the United Kingdom, and the British people ought to be concerned about him.

That such an individual could be one of Britain’s most significant leaders is a story much bigger than a man. It reveals the debilitated moral health of British society and British politics.

Corbyn’s Terrorist Friends

After United States special forces raided the Abbottabad compound of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden in 2011, Corbyn said the bin Laden raid “was an assassination attempt, and is yet another tragedy, upon a tragedy, upon a tragedy.” He continued: “The World Trade Center was a tragedy, the attack on Afghanistan was a tragedy, the war in Iraq was a tragedy. Tens of thousands of people have died.”

It will be my pleasure and honor to host an event in Parliament where our friends from Hezbollah will be speaking. I’ve also invited our friends from Hamas to come and speak as well.
Jeremy Corbyn
By what logic can the killing of one terrorist classify as a tragedy in the same way that the thousands of innocent civilians he killed is—not to mention the financial and political crisis he created?

In a 2009 speech to the Palestine Solidarity Group, Corbyn said, “It will be my pleasure and honor to host an event in Parliament where our friends from Hezbollah will be speaking. I’ve also invited our friends from Hamas to come and speak as well.”

Corbyn befriends and sympathizes with Hezbollah and Hamas—self-declared genocidal terrorist organizations that aren’t much different from the terrorists in al Qaeda or the Islamic State.

Instead of drawing the bloody comparisons between the Islamic State and the terrorist organizations he sympathizes with, Corbyn compares the callous, barbaric, demoniacal, misogynic, pedophiliac Islamic State terrorists with the U.S. military! “Yes, they are brutal,” he said of the Islamic State. “Yes, some of what they have done is quite appalling. Likewise what the Americans did in Fallujah and other places is appalling.”

Jeremy Corbyn has close ties to Republic of Ireland terrorist groups Sinn Fin and the Irish Republican Army (ira).

The Misguided Pacifist

The Labour Party’s new leader is pro-Vladimir Putin. He blames nato for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Corbyn wants to end Britain’s Trident nuclear program—at a time when North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states are actively pursuing nuclear weapons.

But it’s not just unconventional weapons Corbyn wants to get rid of. In 2012, he said, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if every politician around the world instead of taking pride in the size of their armed forces did what the people of Costa Rica have done and abolished the army and took pride in the fact that they don’t have an army … surely that is the way we should be going forward.”

Sure it would be wonderful if all leaders abolished their armies. Problem is, Russia’s Vladimir Putin will not abolish his nation’s army. Neither will China’s Xi Jinping or Iran’s Hassan Rouhani.

Corbyn told Sky News he couldn’t think of “any circumstances in which you would deploy Britain’s military forces.” He wonders why “a small country” like Britain should have the “global reach” it currently has. He doesn’t see why Britain should have a robust military with aircraft carriers and fighter planes.

But the answer is simple: We live in a world of dangerous, scary individuals and regimes. It’s as dangerous today as it was 70 years ago when Britain was almost defeated by Nazi Germany. Corbyn’s comments are an invitation for Britain’s enemies to strike!

A time is soon coming when nations will not need militaries (Micah 4:1-4). But for the world as it is now, a military is a necessity.

Patriot?

In 1994, Jeremy Corbyn said, “A referendum on scrapping the monarchy should be in our next manifesto—it would be very popular.” He wants to toss aside an institution that has existed for thousands of years.

Yes, Britain’s royals have not been perfect, but they largely have been a force for good in this world.

A referendum on scrapping the monarchy should be in our next manifesto—it would be very popular.
Jeremy Corbyn
At a memorial service for the pilots of the Battle of Britain, Corbyn refused to sing the British national anthem. Notice the Telegraph’s assessment: “Mr. Corbyn’s antipathy to the monarchy is well known, and he’s entitled to it. This, though, was a memorial service for men who saved the country. Surely common sense could tell him that, in this context, many people would find his obstinacy disrespectful.

“His appearance didn’t help. His trousers were a different shade from his jacket. The top button of his shirt was undone. From his pocket poked the lid of a pen. He looked like a lecturer who’d woken late, got dressed in the dark, then loosened his collar to recover from the mad panting dash to the bus stop.

“If he’d actually been a lecturer, of course, the air of absent-minded dishevelment might have been endearing. But he wasn’t a lecturer. He was the leader of a major political party. A man who claims that, five years from now, he wants to be prime minister.”

Outspoken Anti-Semite

Put simply, Corbyn hates Israel. He wants to boycott goods coming from Israel. He wants to impose arms embargoes on Israel.

He’s invited Raed Salah for tea at the House of Commons. Salah is a proponent of blood libel—a slanderous accusation that Jews murder children and use their blood to bake in their matsos. He propagated the theory that thousands of American Jews stayed home on 9/11 because the terrorist attack was a Jewish conspiracy that the Jews were already well aware of before it happened.

Corbyn has also hosted Dyab Abou Jahjah. Abou Jahjah called the 9/11 attacks “sweet revenge.” He has also called for the killing of British soldiers in Iraq and has accused Europe of making “the cult of the Holocaust and Jew-worshiping its alternative religion.”

Jeremy Corbyn has donated to Paul Eisen, a prominent Holocaust denier who is so radical that the Palestine Solidarity Campaign does not associate with him.

The list of Corbyn’s glaring flaws could go on. But they are not just his flaws alone. Neither are they merely the blemishes of the leadership in Britain. These are the flaws of the people behind the flawed leadership in Britain. From the head to the feet, there is a glaring lack of sound reasoning and judgment in Britain (Isaiah 1:5-6).

Jeremy Corbyn reveals the dangerous and destructive path Britain is treading.