Twelve reasons not to vote for Corbyn (10 - 12)

10. Identity Politics

The Labour Party has been on a journey for quite a while along identity politics. It means that you are defined by a specific criteria. You're a woman. You're Gay. You're Trans. You're Black. And so you must think like this...

It works for a while, and then the conflicts between different groups start to conflict. Take all women shortlists for Labour MPs, should they be open to trans women? Should they be open men who self identify as women but have had no treatment?

The conflicts are coming out into the open now. Lesbians at Pride have been getting annoyed by Trans Women. Stonewall has just split with a new LBG Alliance (excluding trans).

Then you bring in religion. Corbyn is supposed to be a big support of gay rights, but appears on platforms with radical Muslims who things gays should be killed. In this scenario you end up with a hierarchy of minorities which starts becoming more and more unfair.

The left and far left have been taken over by identity politics. I imagine that this will cause much greater problems of a Labour Government as they have to deal with the inconsistencies as they will try to be so 'woke'.

11. Economy

The big one. They have said for a while that they will only tax the top five percent of earners more. Don't believe it. Taxation causes behavioural changes. When the top five percent decide to earn their money differently or move abroad, how should that taxation be replaced? It will need to be, so it will then be the next five percent, and so on.

The plan is to return corporation tax to pre-2010 levels. This would be the highest in the EU I believe. This will deter companies from starting up or investing, or get them to move abroad.  There will be extra taxes and the economy starts to do badly, and what do all socialist governments do in this regard? They don't go back and rethink, they double down.

The economy may do well for a little while but always tank under far left governments. This will be no different. Which takes me to the last point.

12. Socialism

It does not work. It never has. It never will. Social Democracy is a capitalist system with more intervention than a more free market approach but they all work with booms and busts, some inequality, but raising living standards.

Whenever socialism has been tried it has failed. At which point those that were at first cheer leaders, proclaiming some success in early days, turn their backs on the regime as it fails and becomes a totalitarian dictatorship. They then say it wasn't real socialism. It will then loop again.

Corbyn himself was giving plaudits to Chavez in Venezuela when it first started down the socialist path living on the spoils of it's vast oil wealth. But as the private investment dried up, after forced nationalisations, and the oil income declines, and welfare increased, it all went wrong. The latest socialist experiment failed, with a mass exodus of people, vast poverty, and political opponents in prison. Corbyn has said it's not real socialism any more.

And the cycle begins again.

Don't let the UK go down this route of being another huge experiment in socialism. It always starts with great ideals and ends with people eating their own pets.