Just can’t help grinning over Corbyn’s self-inflicted wound

Of course parties are made up of very different shades of opinion; indeed we have seen this played out graphically in the recent history of the Labour Party from Blair through Brown to Corbyn.

It is not dangerous to disagree but for a leader to take a line diametrically opposed to his party in Parliament is never going to end well.

In his response to the incident in Salisbury, Corbyn has divided his backbenches and is even at odds with the majority of his shadow team.

Theresa May has in response to this managed to look statesman-like and proportionate. She set out the origin of the nerve agent used and proposed two possible explanations.

First, Putin and the Russian state were responsible for ordering the hit. Second, they lost control of the nerve agent to a rogue group who committed the act.

Of course evidence is being gathered and we must proceed with caution but I am struck by how much easier Corbyn finds it to blame the US president for any misdemeanour with his approach to Putin in this.

Now the PM has growing international support, Labour are at odds and the latest polls show large disapproval for Corbyn’s handling of this issue of national security.

Sky News carried a poll showing a hefty 57 per cent opposed Corbyn. In my reasoning here I am not addressing the actual details of what happened and how, but the politics.

It will, in my judgement, not be resolved quickly and Corbyn’s judgement and reading of this has placed his party in electoral peril.

It may lead to MPs resigning the whip It will, in my judgement, support the narrative that Corbyn is not fit to lead the nation.

I declare here my disdain for him and his politics and can’t help grinning to myself at this self-inflicted wound he has inflicted upon Labour.

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