Oh, now I get it. It’s taken me a while, but now I get the whole ‘Corbyn’ thing. Ahhhhh.

In a MORI poll published yesterday, Our Jezza polled the lowest popularity for any political leader since Michael Foot in 1983. Its taken 36 years to find a leader almost as hated by the public as Footy was. Both men share the same tailor but I don’t think that’s the issue here.

With the ‘general public’ (ie just people; across all party supporters) Jezza polled a massive 17% who like him. Which beats Michael Foot’s 13% by some way but no-one else in recent memory. Even the polls taken just among Labour supporters rate him very lowly. Because those that are happy with his facile and stupid brand of socialism hate him because of his (total lack of) stance on Brexit.

So I feel very happy and somewhat relieved that this man is so unpopular. That people are finally getting it.

That a man whose business plan for a nation is that of Venezuela; whose political dream is Russia or North Korea, and whose model of ‘opposition to discrimination of all forms’ is Auschwitz, is perhaps not someone you want running Britain.

But meanwhile, who is running America? Jeff Bezos if the richest man on the planet, having mined digital gold for many years, but he’s not in charge. That is Trump. Who has a great mate called, wonderfully, aptly and rather pathetically, Mr Pecker. Who owns a stupid tabloid almost-joke rag called The National Enquirer. Which, if you’ve never seen it, makes the Daily Mail look tolerant and accepting, makes the Sun look puritanical and makes Beano look positively hi-brow. And in a effort to… actually I have no idea, no-one in America takes the National Enquirer seriously and hasn’t since it started running “ELVIS IS THE FATHER OF MY LOVE CHILD!!!” and “MY MOTHER-IN-LAW WAS ABDUCTED BY ALIENS AND NOW SHE’S RADIOACTIVE!!!” type headlines. But in an effort to get Jeff Bezos to publicly state that the NI is non-partisan and has no political bias (much like the Daily Mail hasn’t) it threatened to publish naughty photos of Bezos and his new woman.

Which shows the level of thought, or lack of, occurring within the editorial offices of the NI. Because you can threaten poor people but Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, Trump’s nemesis in print, has now created a major shit-storm about the corruption, blackmail and coercion attempts against him. Which, if it ever finds its way back to any Trump input whatsoever, could be… interesting. Pecker vs Pecker.

Happy Saturday. It’s better to play tennis in a gale than not to play at all.

A xxxx