‘What has he won?’ EU’s lefties ridiculed for styling political campaign on JEREMY CORBYN

The Labour Party leader could provide a blueprint to left-wing movements who continue to slump in the polls across the Continent.

Ukip MEP Stuart Agnew laughed off the plans, warning a Corbyn copycat would be signing their own death warrant.

He said: “The Labour Party haven’t won anything yet so I’d be very slow to copy anything they do.

“Due to their history during WWII the Dutch are very sensitive to anti-Semitism.

“I would caution them against replicating the rampant anti-Semitism of the British Labour Party under Corbyn whose new maxim I believe could be ‘For the many, not the Jew’.”

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Europe’s lefties have suffered downturns in fortune in France, Italy and the Czech Republic in recent elections.

Most notably, France’s Socialist Party came fifth in last year’s presidential vote and was forced to sell its Rue De Solferino headquarters to fend off debt collectors.

The Dutch Labour Party suffered a similar fate last year, being relegated from a junior partner in government to seventh place in the polls.

Mr Corbyn has already become a symbol of saviour across Europe after the UK’s Labour Party has seen its membership base swell to over 500,000 and turned over a huge deficit in the opinion polls to challenge Theresa May’s Conservatives in the 2017 General Election.

The veteran socialist spoke at a gathering of lefties in the Netherland’s after an invite from Dutch Labor.

The Dutch-left wingers suffered a catastrophic wipeout in the 2017 election, winning less than 6 percent of the vote.

Moving from one of the dominant movements in the Netherlands, Dutch Labor secured just nine seats out of a possible 150 in the lower house.

Paul Tang, leader of the Dutch left-wing party and event organiser, said: “We want to see why there’s a dynamic in the Labour Party with growing membership, the near result in 2017 and opinion polls.

“That’s interesting for the Labor Party in the Netherlands.

“You can’t just transpose one idea from one country to another, but still you can try to learn.”

After the shocking results of 2017, Dutch Labour commissioned a report to see how they could reclaim the same presence which often saw them secure a third of the electorate.

The document, named ‘On the Future’, suggested following a similar path to Mr Corbyn’s Labour Party – democratising party structures to give more power to the members and taking the empathises away from “professional politicians”.

Report author Paul Depla recommended rebranding the failing party as a movement which is underpinned by a strong on-the-ground activism.

It also suggests embracing the tactics of hard-left Corbyn-backers Momentum.

“We must embrace and strengthen new social movements, because they are a new appealing vehicle that can strengthen people’s livelihoods,” the report says.

“If we do not do this, we will become more and more technocrats in the eyes of society instead of appealing politicians.

“This is difficult, because the greediness of the civil-professional world is large and has major consequences.”

But, can Corbynism become the model for Europe’s left? Rem Korteweg of think tank Clingendael believes a number of the Continent’s lefties may believe he is the answer to their problems.

Mr Korteweg said: “There’s a number of social democratic parties in continental Europe that have been hit very hard in recent elections: Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Austria.

“There’s a real process of soul-searching taking place. They are looking to Jeremy Corbyn. To some, not to all but to some, he is the example.

“I actually think the Corbyn phenomenon is replicable.

“It has to do with the fragmented nature of the political landscape. It’s difficult to make a case for a broad-based, community-wide political party in terms of political mechanics it makes sense to be more targeted.”


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