Whilst the whole world is condemning President Maduro over there in Venezuela, one voice is still so silent that it has become almost deafening. That of Jeremy Corbyn. Jezza finds it very very hard to criticise any socialist, anywhere, anytime. No matter how many innocent civilians get killed, regardless of the rights that are removed, the politicians and press that mysteriously ‘vanish’ into the night, Jezza keeps his counsel. Comrades to the end.

And the end of Venezuela is nigh. Tragically. And absurdly. Because Venezuela is rich. Or should be. It has oil. Which it sells to America in barrels full. Millions of them. And yet the country is on the verge of bankruptcy. Inflation is at 700% (I can’t even imagine how those numbers work, so I’m just thinking ‘really bad’) and the minimum wage there now equates to £10 a month. And to cap it all, Maduro has now rigged the election, locked up the opposition and created a system where he will become The Leader. A Kim Jong-Un in Spanish. A dictator. Fortunately without the nuclear weapons, and even more fortunately without the silly haircut.

If America increases its sanctions to cease the purchase of Venezuelan oil that will be, financially, the end of Venezuela. Which may be an acceptable political state, but the people? Think of all those lovely, hard-working people caught up in this shit. Millions of them. Without much of a present, let alone a future.

Yet this is the ‘model’ that Corbyn admires so. The Socialist Dream, as started by his mate, Hugo Chavez and now taken to the next level (a quantum leap) by Maduro. This is what starts as a massive, unsubstantiated promise to the ‘young’ of a brilliant future, paved with numbers that don’t add up and an ideology that is fatally flawed, and ends in total financial ruination and a man (I’m gonna guess that he is not personally ‘suffering’ financially at this point) in total charge of everything in a land now devoid of free speech or any other democratic process. “Tax the Rich!!!” he yells, and everything else can be just given away virtually free!!!!

Someone should post the ‘Venezuela Story’ as a salient message to Corbyn’s fans. “One day Son, this could all be ours”.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx