BY DANIEL JUPP
Around the time Jeremy Corbyn was Labour leader I wrote that voting Labour with such a leader in place was morally sickening.
For those who don’t know Corbyn spent his entire political career supporting terrorist groups. In the 1970s and 1980s at the height of the Troubles, that is whilst the IRA were blowing up little kids and scattering their limbs about because they happened to be British, Corbyn was going on IRA organised marches, sharing platforms with IRA terrorists and campaigning for IRA terrorists who were in prison. He combined this with supporting Hamas and Hezbollah at the height of their genocidal campaigns against Jews.
He also took money from Iran, and still does, with all that entails. Right now, Iranian women are being killed by a theocratic police force there, which was actually more brutal through many of the years where Corbyn happily took an Iranian paycheck.
Anyway, all this was in the public domain. It amazed me that millions of people were happy to ignore these facts. To ignore the murdered children and the Jew hatred and the treason of it all. It still does amaze me. So, I posted that people voting Labour, given this leader, were supporting evil, doing evil, being evil. It couldn’t be seen any other way if you yourself were a moral being.
An old university friend I’d known for 20 years went into a rage. Her husband voted Labour. I was calling her husband evil. She demanded that I retract what I had posted. She expected an apology. I explained that I stood by my post and that if you vote for a terrorist lover that is indeed evil. She ended the 20-year friendship because I refused to apologise for telling the truth or change the truth to suit her.
Today, years later again, a well-meaning university friend of both of us tried to reconcile us. It’s now 30 years since we were all friends in our first year at university. As it was a long-gone argument and Corbyn isn’t an issue anymore, I said I had no problem if she had no problem. I’d have happily met and talked and seen if her views had changed or avoided politics altogether.
She replied that my views are abhorrent.
Blowing up kids or backing the guy who backed that wasn’t abhorrent. I am for calling out that sort of thing.
It really is a strange world. 30 years ago, myself and this person were very close. I don’t think my views changed much, to be honest. I remember hating the IRA when I was 18. I hate them now. I remember thinking that blowing up kids was evil then. I think the same thing now. I loved my country back then, I still do now. I had some moral red lines then, and they are the same ones now. I don’t like terrorists. I never thought that was controversial, really. I thought that was obvious and normal.
It’s as obvious and normal to me as not injecting people against their will, not stealing elections, not murdering full term babies, not pushing for a nuclear war, not spreading race hate theories, not performing unnecessary surgeries on kids, not pretending that up is down, down is up, evil is good and good is evil.
But apparently the part of me that loudly says no to all such things is controversial and despicable. It is abhorrent. Perhaps even deplorable?
Daniel Jupp is the author of A Gift for Treason: The Cultural Marxist Assault on Western Civilisation, which was published in 2019. He has had previous articles published by Spiked, The Spectator and Politicalite, and is a married father of two from Essex.