According to a new study in Iowa, (that’s in the middle of America, grows corn, nothing else of any interest within a thousand miles in any direction of it) as we get older we become less likely to admit our mistakes. Oh yes, its true. Proven beyond doubt. Though that ‘doubt’ has more to do with arbitrary measures of ‘statistical significance’ than it has with anything in the real world. But without being too cynical… older people (over 60, grrrrr) acknowledged their errors 63% of the time compared to younger people’s (under 30) 75% of the time. The problem being that if you don’t realise or accept a mistake then you have nothing to correct or solve.

I think they should name this ‘amazing’ phenomenon ‘Corbyn’s Law’. Just to show how damaging it is and how much worse any situation becomes if mistakes are not acknowledged. And Corbyn’s fucking old.

He denied any issues with anti-semitism in his party for 2 years. Instead of addressing the errors, he called in Shami Chakrabarti to whitewash (no pun) the whole thing and declare emphatically: “I can find absolutely no evidence of anti-semitism within the Labour party. Can I have my peerage now? Oops, should’a turned the mike off…”

Had JC actually stated that there were big issues with his party and with Momentum and their hate-filled trolling activities and seemed to have been taking action against such practices, it ‘MAY’ have blown over. But he didn’t and so people looked deeper into the wondrous new ‘thing’ that was Jeremy Corbyn. And found his history. Not that of his party or supporters (both of which were bad enough) but JC personally. That he had ‘shared platforms’ with virtually anyone in the world who espoused Jew-hate. As long as some of it could be directed at Israel, Jezza would ignore the rest and put his arm over their robed shoulders and embrace them. As long as he refused to accept the problem, to admit the mistakes, they dug deeper. And its not hard, everything is on public record, which is why I said ‘may’. It probably would have emerged at some point anyway.

But now he’s made a video to apologise. In fact to use the same worthless and now meaningless rhetoric he’s been using for the last 2 years. Although he is now actually using ‘anti-semitism’ as a case in point rather than his blanket ‘abhor all forms of racism’ because that blanket has worn so thin.

So yes, he intends to address these matters, just a few years too late. But he can never wipe away his past. Or that of McDonnell or many of the others which all shows, by their own actions and choice of friends, that they are, at best, pre-disposed to join hands with known anti-semites at every opportunity.

So rebuilding ‘trust’? That would possibly only happen upon his death. Possibly.

Happy Monday

A xxxx