Hope denied— a look back at the British Establishment’s war on Jeremy Corbyn

John Wight
6 min readApr 17, 2023

As the old saw has it: “In France the elites are scared of the people, while in Britain the people are scared of the elites.”

Old saw it may be but nonetheless demonstrable fact when you take a moment to consider the difference between a militant French working class with the willingness to assert its rights on the streets when push…

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