Greg Sheridan’s column for The Aus today about the UK election is….. I am not sure whether just to laugh hysterically at how fucking insane it is, or be furious that such utter fucking shit could get published in a reputable newspaper. Copy pasted here in its full glory.
This is the most important British election — to Australia, the UK and the world — in living memory. Perhaps it is a fulcrum moment akin to when Winston Churchill became British prime minister in World War II.
If Jeremy Corbyn records an upset win against Theresa May tomorrow it will be a devastating setback for the Western alliance, for security, for the fight against terror, for Europe and for democratic culture around the world.
It will make a laughing stock of Britain, and imperil Britain.
And while the UK is a long way from Australia it is still an immensely important political, economic and security partner for us, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, our third-biggest foreign investor, a nuclear power, the world’s fifth-biggest economy.
Yesterday’s revelation that Corbyn spoke at a rally attended by hundreds of followers of a now banned terror group, al-Muhajiroun — whose supporters included London Bridge terrorist Khuran Butt — must surely do him some harm with whatever element of the British electorate retains any sense of history or knowledge of current affairs, or mere self-respect.
At this rally of al-Muhajiroun, supporters screamed anti-Semitic obscenities, calling for Jews to be gassed, but gentle Jeremy, meek and mild, everyone’s slipper-wearing kindly grandad, had nothing to say about this.
He condemned only Israel. That’s the sort of extremist Corbyn really is.
The polls are maddeningly confusing. They encompass every possible outcome from a narrow Corbyn win through a more likely hung parliament, to a still possible Tory landslide. Several polls put the two parties neck and neck. Others show the Conservatives still with a big lead.
But no poll can predict who is actually going to vote. Young people, in a kind of blind ignorance of history and the world induced by the wretched fashions of contemporary pedagogy and the neurotic narrowness of the digital silos in which they live their screen-based lives, are Corbyn’s most enthusiastic supporters.
However, they are the people least likely to vote.
Corbyn is several hundred standard deviations worse a candidate for national leadership than ever Donald Trump was.
But if Corbyn joins Trump among national leaders, it will become increasingly difficult to argue the self-evident virtues of democracy, either in the Third World or to our own democracy sceptics.
Unlike Trump, there is no indication that Corbyn would appoint a good cabinet.
He is surrounded by self-declared Marxists, long-time supporters of terrorist groups, and recently recruited former communists.
His rise is the most startling indictment of mainstream political culture anywhere.
May has run a mediocre campaign and is not a scintillating figure. But her failings are just the normal shortcomings any political leader might have. Perhaps she made a poor policy choice. Perhaps she could have communicated more effectively.
But she remains a credible national leader. And what she says about Brexit is true: it demands a coherent, competent government if it is to be negotiated and managed properly.
The world still needs a big British contribution — in politics, security, economic management, the promulgation of cultural decency.
I thought nothing could be more gripping than Trump versus Hillary Clinton, unless it was Brexit.
But now I see that Britain’s destiny, and a huge part of the world’s fortune, rests on tonight’s outcome.
