Seumas Milne likes a good riot. See him make this clear in this clip from October 2012. Speaking about the terrible riots in London in 2011, he says:
Actually, I thought they [the riots] were quite, you know, despite the way they were portrayed at the time, there was a lot of very political expressions, certainly in particular, in some areas in particular, certainly in East London but in other places as well, where people were expressing, in quite a strong class-orientated way, a hatred not only of the police but of the system.
Violent hatred can be positive, you see. Nay, better, it is an opportunity.
Um, and, you know, so, I mean, it wasn’t only negative what happened in the riots. And I think that those people clearly are part of what, of the people that need to be organised and need to find a political expression and social organisation.
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But it’s also an opportunity. It’s a huge opportunity to channel that anger.
Seumas Milne hailing the London riots
Remember too that this is part of a consistent pattern. Corbyn himself has rallied support for the nasty thugs who attacked police officers and trashed a Starbucks in London during the Gaza war riots in 2009.
His shadow chancellor John McDonnell is fond of riots too, even calling for “solidarity” with the mob that attacked Millbank in 2010. In that call McDonnell explictly included the man who threw a fire extinguisher at police officers from the top of the building. Oh, and don’t forget to spit in the managers’ tea.
Jeremy Corbyn’s “kinder” and “gentler” rhetoric is a joke. Vicious street violence is the real face of Camp Corbyn.
