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Sceptics scoffed at the title of this book, but the turbulence in the Labour Party since its publication in February 2019 has justified the sobriquet attached to Jeremy Corbyn. Contrary to the vote-winning image of an honourable campaigner for a gloriously benevolent society, Corbyn’s life, as revealed here, is a catalogue of duplicity and dogma. Similarly, John McDonnell’s career as a virulent Trotskyist poses a warning to Britain’s honest electors. Over the past months, both men have sought to airbrush their lifelong alliance with tyranny from the public record. This book tears away the disguises they have adopted. Electors should judge them on their footprint. Thirty years after Eastern Europe was liberated from oppression, Britain now stands on the edge of succumbing to a group of Stalinist sympathisers.

Ostensibly, the 2019 election is about Brexit. But in reality, it is a contest between capitalism and communism. A careless vote risks allowing a government led by Marxists to take control of the country by default. And once Corbyn and his trusted associates are in Downing Street there will be little reprieve. The locks will be turned. No Marxist government in history has ever relinquished power democratically.

As students of Lenin, Corbyn and McDonnell entered the general election determined to ignore the fundamental disagreements with many party supporters to promote their lifelong passion to transform Britain into a Marxist state. Echoing Hugo Chávez, their Venezuelan hero, Corbyn and McDonnell offer the most deprived of Britain’s electorate a bonanza of riches, confiscated from the middle classes. (Britain’s seriously rich long ago relocated their wealth abroad, far from Corbyn’s grasp.) Corbyn’s political manifesto promises that equality of opportunity will be replaced by equality of poverty. His election will hasten the exodus of the country’s wealth creators to more welcoming nations. The aftermath of destroying capitalism is visible in Venezuela – hyperinflation and crippling shortages.

Even worse, contrary to Corbyn’s promises Britain will no longer be a fundamentally decent and tolerant society. Ever since the original publication of this book, the evidence that Labour under Corbyn’s leadership is anti-Semitic has been irrefutable. As successive Labour MPs resigned in disgust over Corbyn’s tolerance of their persecutors in their constituencies and in Westminster, Corbyn has shown no shame. With horror, mournful MPs have witnessed the triumph of their persecutors. Chris Williamson, suspended from the party as a suspected anti-Semite, was never expelled. To his victims’ distress, many traditional Labour MPs meekly collaborated with Corbyn rather than revolt against his racism. Self-interest suffocated the principles so loudly proclaimed by those social democrats – formerly the bedrock of the Labour Party. Lenin called them his ‘useful idiots’.

Rarely has every individual’s vote been more important than in the 2019 general election. The reason is described in this biography of a man who, despite his veneer of virtuousness, is, I believe, a dangerous hero.