The Bains Agenda

In 2019, I sincerely wish Jeremy Corbyn won the election. He is a principled man, who would have implemented policies that put more money in the pockets for ordinary people, nationalised industries and not decimated the country like the Tories.

However, his foreign policy positions on Ukraine and the way he dealt with Labour antisemitism crisis were naive at best and he must take responsibility.

People in society want a hero, they want to believe things. Millions of British people correctly realise our politicians don’t care, they lie, they are genuinely stupid and almost all are bought and paid for by the lobbyists and dark money.

Jeremy Corbyn, whatever one wants to criticise him for, is honest. Unlike any politician I know. He does not have a track record of lying and changing positions like the Tories or Starmer and a simple YouTube search of old clips shows he is the same person in 2025 he always was.

Hence he has a cult-like following comparable only to possibly Farage in the UK. Him and Farage are the only people I think could start their own party and get serious votes.

Reform UK didn’t exist until recently and is blowing the ancient Conservative party out the water and on the other hand Corbyn is the only man who can run as an independent in Islington and win.

His following leans left and young obviously but is also compromised of a sizable number of BAME individuals due to his unique foreign policy stances, most notably on Palestine.

This cult, and I call it that because it is about him quite blatantly – he ran as Jeremy Corbyn independent MP in Islington and beat Labour in 2024. That is impossible without having a name like he does, nobody else could have done that.

Many of his cult blame everyone else for his election loses; the media, Labour party etc and they aren’t totally wrong. The media was very biased against him, even the Guardian, and internal Labour party MPs sabotaged him.

But his manifesto was immensely popular and was up against a genuine idiot in Boris Johnson so ultimately he needs to take a lot of the blame for failing to win; he did a lot of it to himself and continues to do so now.

I sincerely believe he has principles and believes what he is saying – but that’s also the problem. Some of what he believes is dangerous and idiotic.

His 2019 manifesto was centre left, I know, but deep down in his core it is blatant he is more Morning Star than New Statesman.

What that means is he has quite ridiculous takes on foreign policy and some domestic issues because he adheres to one line which is the far left version.

His inability from 2015-2020 when he ran the Labour party to outright condemn the IRA, Hamas and Hezbollah was immoral, dumb and guaranteed his election losses. He never condoned these groups, but he refused to outright condemn them in interviews consistently.

He gave all the ammunition the right wing press needed then complained when they used it. Same with the poppy debacles etc. – we all know the media is unfair and biased, why help them? He was awful with the media, laughably bad. Boris, an Eton toff, was far better at playing politics (think of the Olympics stunts and silly hair etc.) – stupid but it worked. Corbyn should take responsibility but of course, he won’t and will just keep whining about the media.

I know what his and the rest of the far left argument is. He is anti imperialism, he sees these groups as inevitable products of occupation. But all three killed civilians and children with their actions.

To me that alone makes them despicable terrorists and anyone denying that to me is a sign of their intelligence and heart; inability to condemn them shows either genuine hate or adherence to ideology – both errors of thinking.

Hence, consistently, he was asked by journalists (who knew exactly what he would say) if he condemns these terrorist organisations and every single time, like a broken record, he said “I condemn all forms of bombing” or such like.

What a stupid answer. The answer is yes Jeremy. For a country (England) that was bombed by the IRA and is home to a significant number of Jews I don’t know what he was thinking. What votes would he possibly lose by just saying yes compared to those he could win?

That and opposition to Zionism (which I am more sympathetic to) and possibly negligence on his part lead him to being accused of antisemitism.

I know full well lobbies can lie about people. I don’t think Corbyn hates Jews for the record – I have seen no evidence. His words about Hamas/Hezbollah don’t prove anything because he has the same take on the IRA.

But I read the charges; he didn’t help himself one bit. Without doubt antisemites existed in his party. Again, I don’t think he is one but he dealt with it very badly.

There’s also more contemporary issues. He came out against assisted dying – an absolutely ridiculous position that pushed me over the edge if I wasn’t already. That to me is a position that says he is OK with people suffering with terminal illnesses who want to die. I have spoken about this on my other website.

Then there was Ukraine where he argued we should not arm Ukraine for some reason. Again there is a statement from his cult: he is pro peace. Ok then so why is he supportive of violence against the oppressor in Palestine but not Ukraine? Either he’s a hypocrite or an antisemite. It is that simple, it does not make sense what he is saying. A true pacifist does not behave like he does.

What Corbyn basically believes is whatever the far left line is. Just read the Morning Star and you get Corbyn’s view – who also came out against assisted dying.

He sees the world through an oppressor vs oppressed, socialist vs the world, anti imperialist lens that I do not share.

To me, Sikh history shows anyone can oppress and truly nobody is ever totally in the right and I think his way of thinking dehumanises people.

Hence, he has now aligned himself with a rag tag group of Muslim independent MPs voted solely on the Gaza issue, one of whom asked to bring back cousin marriages.

To Jeremy, Palestinians are the oppressed and so anyone 100% supportive of Palestine is his friend. The world is more complicated than that but I think Corbyn is just not that smart rather than actually hateful.

I am sympathetic to him; I think he is a nice man. But why on Earth he aligns himself with independent MPs and not, for example, the Greens is beyond my understanding.

With Starmer’s Labour imploding, he won’t go away and if anything he is stronger than ever, but I somewhat wish he would.