Misrepresentation

It's interesting and predictable that the forces of the Establishment are already issuing statements full of innuendo and mis-truths about what Jeremy Corbyn  stands for and believes in.

The power of the 4th estate is immense. We are more likely to believe the second hand views of people brought before the TV cameras or writing their Column in the newspaper, than the person who holds the view.

The ferocity and the twisting and misrepresentation of what someone has said or their reasoned motives behind making a statement, are the force for rewriting virtually every proposition that an anti-establishment person holds. 

The size and gullibility of the readership and equally of people sitting in front of their TV screens, who's involvement is of a short-attention -span, and who's knowledge is cursory, when despairing statements are made, they swallow them without any further consideration.

Corbyn has said that the continuance of Trident is foolish.

The naysayers say that we need Trident for our defence.

Trident was born at a time of the "Cold War" where the nuclear deterrent was a numbers game and the threat of total annihilation was the only thing preventing World War Three. 

Today we don't have that threat and whilst some very dodgy nations already have, or are trying to obtain a nuclear option there is no overall specific threat. Trident was designed to oppose the Russian nuclear arsenal by providing a retaliatory option which could not be pinpointed by a preliminary strike. There are no threats from the new members to the nuclear club. They do not  have that type of sophistication and even if we were to give up our floating delivery platform we still have retaliatory 'land based' delivery systems that would remind an aggressor of the damage to his society if he were to launch an attack. Of course if a group like ISIS were to obtain nuclear weapons they might argue that in a holy war the death of their own is covered by Jahidi teaching.

We can't afford Trident that's the end of it !!!

The argument that Corbyn has 'supported' Hezbollah is rubbish. What he has done is to have a conversation with them in an attempt to find out and eliminate the bitterness that organisations like that have for us.

In a similar vein, he was talking to the IRA back in the days when no one from government was prepared to do so. Look at the progress dialogue eventually made in resolving the Irish problem and Corbyn was one of those who led the way.

According to the media this morning "he is for withdrawing from NATO". Actually his stance is that the American use of NATO (it is an American constructs) in its furtherance of destabilising and putting pressure on Russia by placing missile  sites in the Baltic countries which were once a part of the USSR and are a significant threat to the Russians.   Corbyn is against using NATO as a covert accessory to American policy. 

This is what he is against, and if the great British public were aware of the Washington agenda they too might be hesitant to follow as pliant ducks in a shooting gallery.

We have to be aware that the forces behind our political stance, in so many cases are the  huge armament contracts and the many millions invested.

He will be bombarded by the press and media on his belief in "Talk" as an antidote to war but we should support him and not be blinded by fear and lies !!!

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