IT is not only British politics that seems to have been reinvigorated by the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. The media as well has been given a new lease of life.
Every word he utters, the clothes he wears, the mode of transport he uses, the people he shakes hands with, have been sifted, picked through and held up for scrutiny.
You can almost see faces burning red with anger and stiff upper lips wobble as commentators splutter with disbelief, outrage, disgust, shock and tell us we should all be jolly well upset too.
Corbyn stands in respectful silence but fails to sing God Save the Queen - the crazy, atheist anti-monarchist.
He might wear a white poppy as well as a red one to remember the war dead from other countries and not just Britain - give the man a white feather.
After he had separated from his first wife he had a “sexual relationship” with Diane Abbott (another crazy leftie and a feminist into the bargain)... and, and - wait for it - they “made no secret of it”.
No secret of it. The shameless, free-living reds. I mean could they not at least have the decency to do things the Tory way and have an affair surreptitiously like John Major and Edwina Currie?
According to reports Mr Corbyn and Ms Abbott went on a motorbike holiday together (yes, I know, Che Guevara’s Motorcycle Diaries did jump to mind) to East Germany, where no doubt they spent their evenings dining on gherkins and pickled red cabbage with members of the Stasi.
Mr Corbyn’s title as Labour leader is quite often prefaced with the word left-wing, or hard left. Around 60,000 people signed a petition last week objecting to the BBC doing so, pointing out that the broadcaster never refers to David Cameron as right-wing Tory leader, or indeed to Nigel Farage as hard-right Ukip leader.
Then there are the policies. A number of publications just listed them as if doing so spoke for itself and demonstrated what a wacko neo-Marxist Mr Corbyn is.
For many the most contentious was his opposition to nuclear weapons and plans to spend £100 billion on upgrading Britain’s Trident missiles.
Let me just write out that figure. That is £100,000,000,000 - one with 11 noughts after it and a pound sign in front.
But the crazy, hard left, non-God Save the Queen singing, white poppy-wearing Labour leader has the audacity to suggest that rather than spending this mind-bogglingly huge sum of money on a weapons system (that if ever launched would wipe out millions of lives in an instant) might instead be used to treat people in hospitals or… I don’t know... education or some other ridiculous thing.
Mr Corbyn has even suggested that he would talk to Islamist extremists in a bid to bring about peace rather than simply blow them all up in drone attacks.
And then what is all this nonsense about getting rich people to actually pay taxes rather than squirrelling their hard-earned cash (well hard-earned by plebs on zero-hour contracts who work for them) away in offshore bank accounts? That’s just mad Commie talk.
The hidden Marxist agenda is in plain sight if you just look for the signs. One of Britain’s best-known newspapers reported on the Monday following his election: “The new Labour leader treated himself to a black cab at his home yesterday, abandoning the Chairman Mao-style bicycle his neighbours always see him riding.”
He’s a vegan too, you know. Bloody hippy. And a tee-totaller, although many of the reports following his election as Labour leader pointedly noted that he went to a pub with his supporters. Ha, I think we can all draw our own conclusions from that, Mr Jeremy so-called Corbyn.
No doubt other disturbing details will emerge in the coming weeks.
Corbyn seen wearing red, white and blue socks - the exact same colours as the flag of North Korea.
Corbyn seen talking to woman wearing a burka whose husband’s second cousin’s wife’s sister’s husband’s best friend was once seen standing in the background of a photo of that crazy Muslim cleric with the funny eye and hook hand.
All this nonsense about free healthcare for all, or saying that poor kids are entitled to the same standard of education as children whose mummies and daddies actually go out to work, affordable housing for all or even that society bears some responsibility for old people - it’s just Bolshevism.
:: Anita Robinson is away.
