More Frightening than Brexit

It feels strange to write these words, but in a few weeks’ time Britain could well have a new government led by a lifelong Trotskyist who plans to take Britain out of the Atlantic alliance, to align the country with Russia, Iran and Venezuela against the Western democracies, and who has spent his four-decade political career celebrating terrorists, anti-Semites and ruthless tyrants.

If that should happen, perhaps thanks to an alliance with the Scottish National Party (whose own heritage includes leaders who admired Hitler’s national socialism), then Britain may be at the beginning of a transformation so profound that it makes the question of EU membership seem like a quaint diversion from real politics.

You might think that the realistic possibility of a Jeremy Corbyn premiership, with its attendant threats to freedom, prosperity, security and comity, would have prompted the British political and media class to take a collective breath, and to focus on the fact that this is…