What Just Happened To Socialists In Britain?
It’s tempting to blame Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
After all, on the morning of the British elections the socialist twit from New York urged Brits to vote for Jeremy Corbyn by sharing a Labour Party video that blamed conservative policies for harming British workers.
"This video is about the UK, but it might as well have been produced about the United States," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples’ lives. The only way we change is with a massive surge of *new* voters at the polls. UK, Vote!"
Oh they voted, all right. To send the socialists packing.
By the time the polls closed, Corbyn’s Labour Party suffered what looked like its worst showing since 1935.
Corbyn and AOC are fellow travelers. CNN reported that after she was elected, the congresswoman had a 45-minute conversation with Corbyn to discuss how to “build a movement across borders.”
Hah. Good luck with that now.
In fact, it looks like it was Corbyn’s extreme open borders policies, his hobnobbing with radicals, his support of Palestinians, his antisemitism, his wokeness and his curious affection for terrorists that did him in.
As I write this, usually reliable BBC exit polls show Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s conservative Tories with their biggest margin of victory since the heyday of Margaret Thatcher in 1987.
Astonishing. Especially when you consider the disheveled prime minister couldn’t be more different from Thatcher, in style at least.
Not only did the Tories hold their seats in Parliament, they knocked off a number of Labour Party MPs from liberal strongholds.
British commentators seem dumbstruck. Just last week a YouGov poll pointed to a possible hung parliament.
Remind you of anything?
Conservatives in the U.K. stunned the world in June 2016 when they voted to leave the European Union in a close Brexit vote. A few months later, American conservatives shocked pollsters and commentators on most cable news channels by electing Donald Trump.
In the meantime, the British Labour Party, under the leadership of Corbyn, has moved far left, as has our Democratic Party.
The Daily Mail noted last night that Corbyn’s “dream of a socialist Britain is now in ruins, with his time in charge of the party surely coming crashing to an end.”
Question is, will Democrats look at what just happened in Britain and learn?
Or will they continue to push their radical proposals for open borders, Medicaid for all and their absolutely wacky ideas like voting rights for 16-year-olds?
Stay tuned.
