It depicts the moment recounted in Chapter 9 of the Book of Acts when Saul, soon to be
the apostle Paul is overcome with the
spirit of Jesus Christ and has been flung off of his horse.
And today we were, according to the trailing of the speech, to
be treated to a story of a similar journey for Jeremy Corbyn from being all for
the UK leaving the EU to his new Damascus state of being a convert to staying in
the EU.
My only question about his speech was why did he take so long
to deliver it. He really only needed to
say four words. Conservatives bad. Europe good.
The immediate analysis by a journalist from The Times after it suggested as much. It really was just a Tory bashing speech dressed up with a bit of pro Europe tinsel. Nothing about his journey of conversion..
Actually there was a sub text to his speech. Well, it wasn’t so much a sub text. It was more hitting you between the
eyes. Basically, according to Jeremy, the EU is based on socialist ideas and as the
leader of a socialist party he supports the EU because it is a body that is
based on these socialist ideals. He clearly
said soon more than one occasion as if to rub in the point.
He called for an EU minimum wage to prevent "unscrupulous" employers from undercutting wages, and said: "Just imagine what the Tories would do to workers' rights here in Britain if we voted to leave the EU in June. They'd dump rights on equal pay, working time, annual leave, for agency workers, and on maternity pay as fast as they could get away with it. It would be a bonfire of rights that Labour governments secured within the EU."
In other words, he has such little confidence in his own party gaining power he wants to off shore the making of our laws so that an unelected Commission in Brussels can do it for us. Strange position that to adopt given all the stuff about off shoring tax in recent days. But there you are, Labour are pro off shoring our law making.
He called for an EU minimum wage to prevent "unscrupulous" employers from undercutting wages, and said: "Just imagine what the Tories would do to workers' rights here in Britain if we voted to leave the EU in June. They'd dump rights on equal pay, working time, annual leave, for agency workers, and on maternity pay as fast as they could get away with it. It would be a bonfire of rights that Labour governments secured within the EU."
In other words, he has such little confidence in his own party gaining power he wants to off shore the making of our laws so that an unelected Commission in Brussels can do it for us. Strange position that to adopt given all the stuff about off shoring tax in recent days. But there you are, Labour are pro off shoring our law making.
Which led me to wonder, is Jeremy really in favour of leaving? He will know that many people in the VoteLeave Take Control camp will use this as a tool to use for their campaign “what did we tell you,the EU is a left wing cabal”. And now Jeremy has given them the ammunition to say so.
There was one really sad thing in his speech. It is really amazing for the leader of the Opposition
in the UK parliament to have such little respect for the authority or ability of
the UK parliament to make laws for itself that we need to be subservient to
others in Europe. To take his thinking
to a logical conclusion, we should just close down Westminster because he
clearly thinks the EU is better placed and able to make our laws.
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