As fateful elections near, is it countdown to Corbyn?
o here we go, at last. The make-or-break election that has hung over Britain like a storm cloud since Jeremy Corbyn became Labour Party leader in 2015 is finally upon us.
December 12 will be the most fateful national poll that Britain’s Jewish community can recall. A man who called Hezbollah “friends,” saw nothing wrong with a mural depicting hook-nosed Jewish bankers, and made the Labour Party toxic for its Jewish members, is a step away from 10 Downing Street.
In an unprecedented sign of the Jewish community’s disquiet, a poll by the Jewish Leadership Council, an advocacy group, found that 47% of British Jews would “seriously consider” moving if Labour came to power.
The fear of a Labour government focuses on two things. In common with many British voters, Corbyn’s radical economic policies (see next story) would affect many Jews, with some talking nervously of Labour imposing capital controls to prevent money being taken out of the country. But on specifically Jewish issues, a Corbyn government’s coziness with Israel’s enemies — and likely rupture of relations between the two countries — would inevitably make life very uncomfortable for UK Jews.
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