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Forget the Deep State. There's talk of a military coup in the case of a leftist leader being elected. No, we are not talking about Venezuela. Rather Britain.This is not a joke either. It's actually being floated seriously. This is the way that the unthinkable gets normalized. It's a tactic. Written by Paul Carter for the de facto house organ of the Conservative Party, the article makes clear that discussions on such a course of action in the event of a Labour victory under Corbyn are ongoing. The article begins by noting, “Only one week after Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader, a serving general of the Army warned of a direct and public challenge if a future Prime Minister Corbyn jeopardised the country’s security: ‘The army wouldn’t stand for it … people would use whatever
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: jeremy corbyn, military coup, UK politics
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Forget the Deep State. There's talk of a military coup in the case of a leftist leader being elected. No, we are not talking about Venezuela. Rather Britain.This is not a joke either. It's actually being floated seriously. This is the way that the unthinkable gets normalized. It's a tactic. Written by Paul Carter for the de facto house organ of the Conservative Party, the article makes clear that discussions on such a course of action in the event of a Labour victory under Corbyn are ongoing. The article begins by noting, “Only one week after Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader, a serving general of the Army warned of a direct and public challenge if a future Prime Minister Corbyn jeopardised the country’s security: ‘The army wouldn’t stand for it … people would use whatever
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: jeremy corbyn, military coup, UK politics
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Forget the Deep State. There's talk of a military coup in the case of a leftist leader being elected. No, we are not talking about Venezuela. Rather Britain.
This is not a joke either. It's actually being floated seriously. This is the way that the unthinkable gets normalized. It's a tactic.
Written by Paul Carter for the de facto house organ of the Conservative Party, the article makes clear that discussions on such a course of action in the event of a Labour victory under Corbyn are ongoing.
The article begins by noting, “Only one week after Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader, a serving general of the Army warned of a direct and public challenge if a future Prime Minister Corbyn jeopardised the country’s security: ‘The army wouldn’t stand for it … people would use whatever means possible, fair or foul, to prevent that.’”…
Carter refers to an article published by the Sunday Times in September 2015, after Corbyn had routed his Blairite leadership opponent with the backing of hundreds of thousands of Labour members and supporters. The newspaper cited an anonymous “senior serving general” that in the event of Corbyn becoming prime minister, there would be “the very real prospect” of “a mutiny.” Elements within the military would be prepared to use “whatever means possible, fair or foul,” the officer declared. He warned, “ You would see a major break in convention with senior generals directly and publicly challenging Corbyn over vital important policy decisions such as Trident , pulling out of NATO and any plans to emasculate and shrink the size of the armed forces.”...
At the time, a Ministry of Defence source said that it was unacceptable for a serving officer to make political comments about a potential “future government,” but rejected mounting any investigation, claiming there were too many generals to investigate....Makes the US look good. There may be a soft coup in the works, but at least no one has floated the ideal of a hard coup — yet anyway.
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crossposted from WSWS, Military coup against a Corbyn Labour government discussed by Daily Telegraph
crossposted from WSWS, Military coup against a Corbyn Labour government discussed by Daily Telegraph