September 24, 2008 - By Lee Hancock

The Daily Telegraph has recently printed their list of the top 100 British Left-wingers. A closer look at the upper echelons of the list reveals some interesting facts about our lords and masters and their true ideological leanings.

1. Gordon Brown

At No.1 in the traitorous hit parade is the man himself, Prime Minister Gordon Brown. It is often said of Brown that he wasn’t an avowed Communist in his youth, unlike many of his New Labour colleagues.

While not a card-carrying member, Brown’s choice of subject for his PhD at Glasgow University gives some clues as to his true political leanings. Brown wrote his thesis, and later a biography of James Maxton, an Independent Labour Party MP, a man Brown has admitted to being “fascinated” by. As well as being a conscientious objector who was sent to prison during WWI, Maxton was an extreme-left winger who even went as far as to pen a glowing biography of the man who had provided the inspiration and influence for Maxton’s own political viewpoints; Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. Better known to posterity as Lenin.

2. David Miliband

Just behind Comrade Brown is Foreign Secretary David Miliband. Milband’s father Ralph was a leading Marxist theoretician who had entered Britain illegally with his father Samuel Miliband, a former Red Army soldier, in 1940. A leading figure of the Communist left in Britain, Ralph Miliband is buried in Highgate Cemetery close to his idol, Karl Marx.

Ralph also spawned the entry at No.4 in the Top Left-Winger list, David’s brother and Minister for the Cabinet Office, Ed Miliband.

6. Harriet Harman

Often referred to as “Harriet Harperson” due to her extreme politically correct views, Harman often takes her far-left views to absurd, and sinister, lengths.  She is virulently anti-family and has questioned whether “the presence of fathers in families is necessarily a means to social harmony and cohesion.” Her advocacy of the racist practice of “Positive Discrimination” is well documented and Harman has sought to extend this biased employment strategy even further.

9. Derek Simpson

Lumbering Union dinosaur Derek Simpson comes in at No. 9. Simpson is joint General Secretary of the enormous new trade union, “Unite.” A card carrying member of the Communist Party of Britain, Simpson has also used his members’ money to conduct an obsessive campaign against the BNP, and Unite was one of the chief organisations behind this year’s violent left-wing protests against the BNP’s Red White and Blue festival.

11. Charlie Whelan

Gordon Brown’s spin doctor cum political enforcer of choice and Director of Communications for Simpson’s Unite union, Whelan just fails to make the top 10 of shame but his credentials as a loony lefty are impeccable. A Champagne Socialist who went to a public school in Surrey, Whelan was a long serving member of the Communist Party, only leaving it in 1990 as he tried to establish a career within the Labour Party.

13. Jack Straw

Former Foreign Secretary and current Secretary of State for Justice, Jack Straw’s career has been on the wane of late, but he still manages to make the top 20 list of the bad, the very bad and the downright ugly.

A proud and vocal communist during his formative years, Straw once went to Cuba as leader of the National Union of Students to meet his hero, future Chilean communist dictator, General Allende. British diplomats in Chile cabled the Foreign Office in London concerning Straw’s presence, calling him a “troublemaker…acting with malice aforethought” and branded Straw’s juvenile far-left politics as “depressingly immature.”

14. Alan Johnson

The Secretary of State for Health is considered by many to be a future leader of the Labour Party. A closer look at Johnson’s dodgy background reveals why. A former militant leader of the postal workers’ union, Johnson joined the Labour Party. But he made no secret of his true political affiliations: “I was more CPGB [Communist Party of Great Britain]. I did consider myself to be a Marxist — I read more chapters of Das Kapital than Harold Wilson.”

28. Baroness Shriti Vadera

Readers may have noticed the “hideously white” nature of the list so far. But fear not, Britain’s non-indigenous loony lefties are first represented at a rather lowly 28 by Shriti Vadera, Gordon Brown’s somewhat ironically titled “economics guru.” But we’re sure that with a good dose of “positive discrimination,” Mrs. Vadera will be in the Top Ten in next year’s list.

Congratulations to all the former communists, crypto-communists, quasi-communists and current communists that have made the list. We can all look forward to a year ahead where they will further pursue their internationalist, anti-British agenda in the hope of moving up a few spaces in next year’s list.