Corbyn says he is a progressive liberal moderniser who wants to remove the corrupt white male establishment who tell others their place and doesn't give the working class a voice, it just uses them.
Corbyn is in fact, an illiberal elite member of the union movement which is overwhelmingly white and male. The leadership don't really give a fuck about issues for low ranking members. They are a means to an end, with the middle ranks doing the donkey work, so they can milk the profits. He is using the working class as a way to lever himself into power. He and his other elites rather look down on them for being 'uneducated'. He silences debate or is complicit in the silencing of debate. He is illiberal, using bullying tactics to consolidate his position through outright intimidation or ostracism. He's not liberal. He's not progressive. Sexism is still rife, but simply dressed differently.
Same tactics and same type of people. Just different faces.
Not really seeing how this improves anything for the country.
It wouldn't be a revolution. Just a replacement of the system for the same rotten stinking structure.
Brexit actually provides the vehicle to do it, so he needs Brexit. But for the blame to be pinned on the Tories.
All his statement today exposes is his opposition to the 'British values' of liberal democracy and his like of controlling people. Which he shares with Trump and Putin.
Not with women. Not with BAME. Not with EU immigrants.
Even his support for the IRA is built upon that, not upon a desire for a liberal peace plan.
A lot has been said about #peaktrans on MN. I wonder how long before #peakcorbyn starts to be a thing.
The worst thing is that we need socialist thinking in this country. The way Corbyn uses the working class whilst also holding in contempt will ensure it doesn't actually come about because it will be about building this new establishment if he gets into power.