Jeremy Corbyn - No to Shoot to Kill - Corbyn is a danger not only to himself but all of us..

Jeremy Corbyn is a man deeply entrenched in his own ideals and woe betides anyone who dares question them. For Corbyn, despite his pacifist leanings, is quick to discipline those around him who disagree or show the slightest disloyalty.. and as leader of the opposition party, he relishes the new power that enables him to do so.

It won’t take long before Labour’s ‘old guard’ are removed (whether of their own free will or not), and Corbynites moved in… to follow his idealistic agenda without question or regard for the greater good.

Corbyn and the corbynites are people with no regard for the ‘ordinary person’. In their (ideal) world we would be equalised, our individual ambitions crushed, our housing, clothing, food, employment and wages provided for us in a way to ensure no one had more or less than anybody else. Sounds good? Then check out that 70’s hipster Pol Pot from that little place on the other side of the world called Cambodia. Take your time..

Like Pol Pot, Corbyn has benefitted from a good education – of a standard he would have denied his own children had his wife not stood her ground, divorced him and taken control of their children’s education.

Why is Corbyn so very, very wrong?

Because life is not equal. If it were, we would all be clones of each other, the same looks, the same heights, strengths and weaknesses. We would be ants..! (and he would be the queen).

At school, there was always the child who ran faster and won at sports day, there was the child who could work out mathematic equations in their head in a flash whilst the rest of us struggled even with a calculator. There were those who could draw, others who understood languages and so on. We were never equal..!

And then the social differences, differing degrees of luck, of learning ability, intelligence, ambition and opportunity absolutely mean that some of us are destined for more or less success than others. Is it always fair? Is it equal? No, not always. But it’s not fair that some people are blessed with good looks and others not and that some people are more prone to disease than others. Come to that, it’s not fair that some people live longer than others is it?

We are not equal..! nor should we be..!

That is why Corbyn is so wrong.

But worse.. Corbyn’s beliefs make him dangerous to all of us, no matter where we are on the social scale.

Corbyn fails to recognise – in his idealistic view of an equal society – that in addition to everything else that makes us individuals, we do not think the same thoughts as each other – and that by instilling his individual ideals on us, he is acting in exactly the biased, non-equal way he bemoans…

In other words, we will all be equal but he will be a ‘little bit more’ equal..!
(The queen ant to all us ordinary ants)

Make no mistake, Corbyn is drunk on power, willing to sack his advisers if they disagree with him, confident enough to not to sing the national anthem if he doesn’t want to, with his top button undone and tie askew, a deliberate finger not only at the establishment but at everyone – all of us who understand what a privilege it is to be British.

Which brings me to current affairs.. Corbyn says he doesn’t agree with shoot to kill, says Jihadi John should have been clapped in handcuffs and put before a court.. all very peaceable and idealistic isn’t it?

True, events that have occurred over generations have contributed to the situation and terror threats we face today – but that, I’m afraid, is the consequence of human nature in a realistic world, where mistakes are made and decisions regretted.. and true, one mistake should not condone another. Yet mistakes have been made, people lives and beliefs changed forever and there is no reset button to life so we have to deal with the consequences.

There are those amongst us who would give the shirts off our backs to help people in need but there are also those who would rip the shirts from our bodies, pull our hearts from our chests and eat them raw. That is not ideal.. but it is a reality. In other words, some of us respect life at every level and others have no regard for life whatsoever.

If, following Corbyn’s ideal, we lay down our weapons and open our arms to ISIS, attempt to talk, attempt to compromise, it will be too late when they simply aim their own weapons at us, flick off the safeties and send us to our graves.. too late for Corbyn also, who will have the most surprised and disappointed look on his face as the bullets rip through him.. too late to utter the words… ‘But I thought…’ 

...Been a long time since I wrote last...been busy...mind on other things... no time to indulge in writing..

But my wife has recently started work in central London and commutes from our home in Reading (Berkshire) by train. I usually don't need to rise from my bed until 8.15 at the earliest but as my wife is now up at 6am I have followed suit and drive her to the station for 7am.

I quite enjoy it. I'm getting more out of my day than before and whilst I've always been a late-to-bed rather than an early riser, even I have to admit that 11pm is a more sensible bed-time than 1am..

But this blog isn't about my sleeping habits or my wife's new job.

On my way into the town centre it's still dark (its November as I write).. and whilst I'm not surprised at the number of people making their way to work at that time, I am staggered by the amount of cyclists... who pedal along the main roads without lights and wearing dark clothing, relying on luck and alert motorists to get from point a to point b without being hit. Believe me, they are almost invisible and especially this morning in heavy fog...

...Because he was responsible for a viral video (motorist takes a pratfall), I follow a cycling 'militant' on YouTube who goes by the name 'uphillfreewheeler'. This cyclist also lives in Reading and has gained quite a reputation for his petulant self righteous vigilante methods of shaming any drivers he deems to have done anything contrary to the highway code. He takes their registration number and posts his footage online. He wears a head cam and rear facing cycle cam.

He has stopped reporting every 'incident' to the Police after they 'advised' him to stop wasting their time.

True, some of his videos show genuinely bad and dangerous driving but most simply show him chasing down motorists in order to preach at them... and in the case of the pratfall video.. needlessly antagonise situations until they boil over. He has actually taken down a lot of hisYouTube clips where viewers comments were telling him to pull himself together and stop acting like a idiot..

But I digress. This cyclist is waging a one man war against all motorists. He wants better cycling infrastructure (which I agree with), but I think he should be seeking support and raising cycle awareness in a positive way, not simply playing the vigilante and more likely, playing up to his cameras.

To his credit, he at least wears high vis clothing, has good quality lights and even an air horn on his bike.. unlike the majority of cyclists I'm seeing every morning - in the dark - who should not be putting their faith in motorist's alertness and ability to see their silhouettes in the gloom but in their own safety precautions.. high vis clothing and cycle lights.

Pro-rata, for every bad driving incident I'm witnessing, there is a bad cycling incident. By all means, make use of speed cameras, road humps, chicanes and whatever else is suitable to curb errant drivers.. but the rules should apply to all road users, cyclists included.