EDC...TROT OR NOT?

Honoured Dame,

Emma positions herself on the hard left politically.  She becomes very stroppy if anyone says she is a Marxist and, even stroppier if someone suggests that she is a Trot. The good people of Kensington recoil in horror at the prospect of a Trotskyite World Socialist Order and Proletarian Control.

Emma gave an interview which was published in The Guardian on the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. 

It was not about the victims and survivors of the fire, it was all about Emma and how the fire affected her personally. 

In that interview, she said, “My socialism is Corbyn’s socialism.” We can all think it was stupid of her to brand her socialism in terms of Corbyn’s socialism. It is the sort of crass statement that one forgives if a sixteen-year-old GCSE Politics Student says it but to come from a former Member of Parliament was incredibly simple-minded of Dent Coad. I shall now unpack Corbyn’s socialism to get to the nub of Emma Dent Coad’s socialism.

1.    When Corbyn dropped out of his Trade Union Studies course at North London Poly, he espoused the virtues of Workers’ Control and a World Socialist Order. These Trotskyite virtues led to him taking up employment as a Trade Union official campaigning for Workers’ Control -  and the so called Workers’ Democracy.

2.    When the Labour Leader, Neil Kinnock, wanted to expel the Trotskyite factions in the Labour Party in the 1980s, Corbyn opposed Kinnock every step of the way. The Trotskyite Group, Militant, and those with Militant Tendencies were seen off but not without Jeremy Corbyn trying to save them.  Corbyn personally told me back then that, “Clause Four of the Labour Party’s Constitution says that the Labour Party is a socialist party.” Corbyn reminded me that, “As Trots are socialists, there is a place for them in the Labour Party,” 

This places Corbyn firmly in the Trotskyite camp and by default Emma Dent Coad with him - remember Emma Dent Coad said, “My socialism is Corbyn’s socialism.”

3.    If any of you are in any doubt about Corbyn’s Trotskyite sympathies, and by default Emma Dent Coad’s endorsement of them, did you know that Corbyn proposed the following unequivocal Early Day Motion in the House of Commons calling for Trotsky’s Complete Rehabilitation –

......That this House, in the light of the special conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in one week's time, and of the judicial rehabilitation of Bukharin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Radek and Pyatakov, demands that the Russian Government goes further and gives complete rehabilitation to Leon Trotsky, Leon Sedov the chief defendants in the Moscow frame-up Trials.

It is possible to argue that Trotsky would want to overthrow our Parliamentary democracy but Emma Dent Coad and Jeremy Corbyn both know there is no money in doing that so they are Trotskyites with a bit of fine-tuning for a world eighty years after Trotsky’s death.    

I suggest that the foregoing puts Emma in the running as a modern day Rosa Luxemburg.  

Miss Trotwood