By BAGEHOT | BRIGHTON
PAUL MASON, a journalist became Labour Birthday celebration activist, was very noteworthy in proof on the Labour conference in Brighton this week, competing with the Guardian’s Owen Jones for the title of Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite talking head. Mr Mason bought replace disaster for one amongst his tweets: “I if truth be told repeat my colleagues in the clicking corps to hearken to the conference. It’s a breath of recent air and rings a bell in my memory of 1980”. His colleagues in the clicking corps mercurial reminded Mr Mason that 1980 marked the starting of 17 years in the electoral barren discipline for Labour. The breath of recent air was a basically chilly wind indeed.
Actually, Mr Mason’s tweet was the political identical of a Freudian creep: the Corbynites are smitten by the 1980s. Young activists who had no longer even been conceived when the miners’ strike came about wear badges reading “coal no longer dole”. Switch unionists catch standing ovations whenever they mention the devastation of the 1980s. Margaret Thatcher is the gold similar outdated in unhealthy.
