Add deeply unpopular with most members of Parliament to Jeremy Corbyn’s growing list of ignominious characteristics.
Jeremy Corbyn is many other things, of course.
He’s an anti-Semite who hates Israel but adores various terrorist groups.
A fanatical socialist who wants to return Britain to the dark days of 1970s power cuts and rotting garbage heaps.
A former employee of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
A proud anti-American.
An overt sympathizer for Vladimir Putin who enjoys dining with Russian agents.
A politician with almost impossibly bad leadership skills.
A strategist who wants to send Britain’s nuclear deterrent submarines to sea without their nuclear weapons.
An opponent of the free press.
Still, with Brexit’s future uncertain and Prime Minister Boris Johnson under pressure, most Labour Party leaders would be expected to be capitalize on a perhaps imminent fall of the government. Not Corbyn.
Putting himself forward to lead a caretaker government in the event that Johnson fails to get Brexit effected by its current deadline of Oct. 31, Corbyn this week was embarrassingly rejected by his parliamentary colleagues. Facing Corbyn’s effort, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson instead offered two other parliamentarians as potential caretaker prime ministers. And a respected former Labour member of Parliament, Chuka Umunna, said that more than 10 current Labour MPs would never support Corbyn entering Downing Street. With the overwhelming majority of Conservative MPs sharing this disdain for Corbyn, it appears that he has no chance of becoming prime minister if Johnson’s government falls (unless, of course, Labour win a new election).
This tells us something basic but important: Those who are entrusted to govern Britain cannot bring themselves to entrust Corbyn to govern for even a few weeks. He is truly regarded as being that dangerous and delusional.
