The Labour leader should know better than to utilize the words of Enver Hoxha,even as a left in-joke. We need to be a grownup party, not a cosy subcultureSo Jeremy Corbyn has quoted Albania’s communist dictator, and Enver Hoxha,at a Labour Christmas party, provoking yet another tempest in the media teacup. C’mon guys, and he was joking,right? You know, like John McDonnell with Mao Zedong’s runt Red Book?Corbyn’s – and Labour’s – opponents will seize on anything to paint him as an unreconstructed Stalinist itching to send the burghers of Kensington off to some marshy gulag.
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Source: theguardian.com