Idiot Leftism

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John Rentoul used his column in The Independent recently to demonstrate that not everyone on the Labour front bench is brain dead or suffering from the kind of Idiot Leftism espoused by Syriza in Greece.

Chuka Umunna is usually interesting. Which is quite unusual among the current Labour front bench. His interview with Politics Home yesterday was hardly a significant political intervention, but he is quite refreshing. Take his answer to a question about Syriza in Greece, for example:

“My global outlook is different to theirs because I do believe that markets and business are a force for good. And that ultimately the best way that we can close the equality gap and lift people out of poverty is by government working in partnership with business. God knows, in China – and I’m certainly not advocating a Chinese system – but their embrace of markets and reform has lifted millions of people out of poverty.”

A Labour politician prepared to dissent from the idiot leftism of We Are Syriza politics and to praise markets? Whatever next?

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