Here’s a biographical bit about Jeremy Corbyn:
Jeremy Corbyn was born in Chippenham, England, in May 1949. He was raised in considerable comfort at Yew Tree Manor, on the Duke of Sutherland’s estate, a “splendid house” which he likes to refer deprecatingly as “an old farm,” part of his downplaying of his upper middle-class background. He graduated from North London Polytechnic. He has been in politics for his entire adult life. He was elected to Haringey Council in 1974, at the age of 25, and continued to serve locally until he became a Member of Parliament for Islington North in June 1983. He became the Leader of the Labour Party, as well as the Leader of the Opposition, in September 2015. Corbyn “has been known for his activism and rebelliousness and supports policies such as unilateral nuclear disarmament and military non-interventionism. He is a member of Amnesty International, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.”
So for the past 35 years, Jeremy Corbyn has had one job: Member of Parliament. And in the nine years before that, he was involved in local politics. That’s all he’s ever done — hold political office. Yet his net worth is now reported to be above $4 million. His house in Islington is worth at least one million pounds, or $1,300,000. When he finally leaves office, he will receive a Settlement.
How has he done it?
The basic annual salary for an MP from 1 April 2018 is £77,379. MPs also receive expenses to cover the costs of running an office, employing staff, having somewhere to live in London or their constituency, and travelling between Parliament and their constituency.
Since Jeremy Corbyn has always lived in London, he would require almost nothing for travel to his constituency. I assume he would receive a housing allowance. A very generous estimate for that allowance would be £33,000 a year, for a house that he already owns. So let’s assume he now receives, in salary and housing allowance, £100,000 a year, or $130,000. In previous years, all the way back to 1983, let us also assume he was paid an amount equivalent to that $130,000. The income tax rate on incomes from £46,351 to £150,000 in the U.K. is 40%. That would leave Corbyn with an after-tax income of $78,000.
But Jeremy Corbyn’s net worth is now over $4 million. How did he manage that? No doubt by taking every conceivable financial advantage his position as a Member of Parliament allowed him. Housing costs can be inflated; so can the cost of paying staff and maintaining an office. The main point is: he’s done extraordinarily well to have ended up with a net worth of $4 million.
Corbyn likes to travel, especially to the Middle East. He took a trip to Syria to meet kindly President Assad in 2009, a trip paid for by a Palestinian group. In 2010, he took a trip to Israel — or rather, to “Palestine,” since he only met with Arabs — paid for by the Friends of Al-Aqsa and Middle East Monitor. He initially failed to declare his trip to Tunisia in 2014 to attend a wreath-laying ceremony for Black September terrorists buried in a cemetery, and who paid for it. It remains a mystery to his day. He failed to register at least three of his trips, breaking strict Parliamentary rules: his trip to Syria in 2009, to Israel/Palestine in 2010, to Tunisia in 2014. Who paid for them? He was paid £20,000 ($26,285) for appearing on several Iranian television programs, on a station that had previously broadcast the forced (by torture) confession of an Iranian dissident. His last appearance on that Iranian station occurred six months after the station had been banned in the United Kingdom for broadcasting that forced confession.
In Corbyn’s campaign for the leadership of the Labour Party in 2015, two of the three main individual donors to that effort were people later exposed as supporters of terror. One was Dr. Ibrahim Hamami, a vitriolic opponent of the Oslo peace accords and a supporter of the wave of stabbings [in 2015] of Jews in Israel. When it comes to Muslims, Corbyn doesn’t mind the company he keeps or the checks he keeps cashing. Might Corbyn have received other generous payments for speeches, or all-expenses paid travel (on his second trip to Tunisia, as a guest of the President, Corbyn, as befits his kind of socialist, stayed in a five-star hotel), not declared, from Middle Eastern admirers? The mystery of Corbyn’s accumulation of millions deserves a thorough investigation.
Corbyn is old-fashioned leftist, except that he’s very interested in money — for himself and for his wife. He uses the word “comrade.” He likes to denounce capitalist exploitation. At the latest party conference in Liverpool, he quoted a verse by a 19th-century poetaster, Ernest Jones, who turns out to have been an antisemite and racist: “‘And what we get, and what we give, We know, and we know our share; We’re not too low the cloth to weave, But too low the cloth to wear.’ The poor workers can weave the cloth for the rich, but cannot afford to wear it themselves.” Corbyn’s associate said “he was making the point that workers know the reality and injustice of their position. Labour believes a worker’s position is on the board.”
Corbyn’s professed concern for “the worker” does not extend to the poor workers exploited by his third wife, Laura Alvarez. Originally from Mexico, Laura Alvarez imports what she calls “fair trade” coffee beans, and advertises them as such. This “fair trade” label is taken to mean that the coffee-producing farmers get a fair price and are not exploited. But it turns out that the farmer who produces the coffee that she sells for 10 pounds for a 500 gram package nets only 93 p.
Here’s more on the story of the ruthless exploitation of coffee growers in Chiapas, the poorest state in Mexico,’ by Corbyn’s wife Laura Alvarez:
Wake up and smell the coffee, comrade: Jeremy Corbyn’s wife sells ‘fair trade’ beans sourced from ‘happy workers’ in Mexico. Guess what? They live in shacks and are dirt poor, exhausted… and very angry.
A farmer pleaded with company director Miss Alvarez, 46, to ‘think about us.’
Luxury coffee sold from the home of Labour leadership frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn is produced by poverty-stricken Mexican farmers, some of whom have earned less than the country’s minimum wage, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Laura Alvarez, the politician’s third wife, runs a business selling organic beans, and boasts that those who make it are paid ‘a fair wage and enjoy good conditions of employment’.
But this newspaper has discovered that Café Mam is produced by farmers in Mexico’s poorest state, who earn just 93p for each 500g bag that Ms Alvarez sells for £10.
Workers take turns to sleep in their factory to stop thieves stealing the machinery and wrecking their livelihood.
Our investigation found:
One farmer took home the equivalent of just £260 in a year after paying his workers – a quarter of the regional minimum wage;
A woman gets up at 4am each day to begin her back-breaking work, and wept when she was told how much her coffee is sold for by wealthy Westerners, including Mr Corbyn’s wife.
Itinerant workers are being paid between 80 and 130 pesos – £3.15 to £5.10 – a day to pick coffee.
Jeremy Corbyn apparently does not mind his wife exploiting these poor Mexican workers who grow the coffee beans, and, who live and work in nightmare conditions, and earn a pathetic pittance. But why should he care? It’s not as if they were Palestinians.
Jeremy Corbyn, with his net worth of at least $4 million, accumulated in all sorts of doubtful ways, and his wife Laura Alvarez, with her Cafe Mam, who is doing extremely well as the hypocritical promoter of what is falsely advertised as “fair trade” coffee, deserve each other.
They are comrades in cupidity. Or more exactly, they are both Salon Bolsheviks.
Mac-101 says
So this scumbag even outdoes Bernie in expenses! Is there one Lib/Socialist/Commie who lives like they preach? Look at Nike bein the SJW now. How much are their workers paid overseas? Or how about the Big Tech Billionaires? Does Apple still have a net outside their plants in Red China to catch the workers as they jump out the windows due to the work pace and stress?
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Is Castro’s Familia still worth almost a Billion bucks? Is Chavez’s daughter really worth 4 Billion makin her the wealthiest woman in Venezuela? Did Lenin really live I a Swiss Chateau until the Revelation? Did Leon Trotsky really git 20 million in gold from Jacob Schiff and he chartered a ship to take Trotsky and 200 Bolsheviks from NEW YORK CITY to overthrow the Kerensky government, our Allies against the Kaiser and then murder millions of Christians AND Orthodox Jews?
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Is the Left/Democrats really financed by the Big Tech Billionaires, Soros and the International Investment Banksters? The very people they supposedly hate?
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Satan is REAL and is the Father of Lies, or as the Muslims would say, The Best of Deceivers!
Older Canadian says
He isn’t any worse than other left wing politicians. Castro became a billionaire during his reign, and that is one heck of an incentive to follow for these greedly power hungry cretins. The only difference between a full blown revolution as Castro did and political correctness is the blood is bleeding on the inside and not the outside thereby making the takeover easier, perhaps not as fast but easier with no threat to the cretins by the people or state.
Mac-101 says
But the Blood will flow once the Globalist gain total control of their Satanic NWO. Millions of Americans will be murdered and Billions around the world. You don’t think these scum bag Democrat Senators durin the Kavanaugh hearing would NOT do a Bill Aires, Obama’s Political Mentor, on us? He said 25 Million Americans can NOT be ReEducated. You KNOW what dat means in Commie Talk!
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This is DEAD Serious!
StellaSaidSo says
You are right, Mac, there is disaster ahead if the globalists get their way, and some of us won’t live to tell the tale. About 7 billion of us, to be exact.
Mac-101 says
Perhaps even more. With Red China bein the worlds largest investor in Robotics and automation, with a billion people still in the rice fields, who knows how many Humans/humanoids will be left on the planet after THEY cull it!
Joss says
Mad 101…China isn’t only buying up Africa, the Chinese population is being sent there, too – the new Chinese empire!
Mac-101 says
We know who will be runnin the farms after those who have them now are liquidated. SA WILL find out what real slavery is like. Most likely the entire content will be depopulated as you said and replaced with Chinese!
Older Canadian says
Mac: Yes I know….. agree with you….you are correct. My post is my view as to the how and why the cretins are obtaining power, not the result after they have control. Mao, Castro, Lenin and etc. the list is long, used the bloodly method to get control. Today the roles and actors are the same, only the method of implementing their goal is different. On the surface it appears bloodless, as the cretins are using the drip, drip, drip method until their bucket is full. Then the same old, same old methods will be used to control the masses and remove those who disgree or a threat to their power.
Mac-101 says
It appears obvious that Population Replacement of Western Civilization combined with Islam is part of their Satanic plan!
TWG says
Mac-101
“… when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people … will hate the new world order … and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.” —H.G. Wells, in his book titled, “The New World Order” (1939).
Mac-101 says
Comin soon with Satan’s Beast as the head and Islam as the forced Religion of the Beast!
Paul says
Jeremy Corbyn’s bio on Wikipedia. He did do work. But he is not a horny handed son of the soil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn
Below are pictures of his ex-council house. Its not something luxurious.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5581773/Jeremy-Corbyn-LOSES-battle-north-London-home-price-boosting-extension.html
Within the body of the Jihadwatch article I saw no substantiation for the figure of his gross value being £4 million. I just read pure venom.
Paul
Hugh Fitzgerald says
“Within the body of the Jihadwatch article I saw no substantiation for the figure of his gross value being £4 million.’
I found three sources on-lne where Jeremy Corbyn’s net worth is given. Two of the sites gave 3 million pounds, which is the equivalent of $3.9 million dollars. The third site estimated his net worth as $4 million dollars. I decided it would be reasonable,wtih these three estimates of $3.9 million, $3.9 million, and $4 million, to go with $4 million. You can find these sources on-line by googling “Jeremy Corbyn” and “net worth.” I failed to add that when Corbyn retires, he will have a pension fund of between 1.6 and 2 million pounds, throwing off an annual income of at least 80,000 pounds. He’s done quite well. I’d like to find out exactly how.
“Pure venom” — no, no. I diluted it considerably, in order to keep my blood pressure down. I find Corbyn unspeakable.
yohanan says
Spell out the reference or at least provide link. Stating a web search is no source citation.
>You can find these 2 sources on-line by googling “Jeremy Corbyn” and “net worth.”
Madhvi Mavadiya. “What is Jeremy Corbyn’s net worth?” Daily Mail. 15 August 2018
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6059413/What-Jeremy-Corbyns-net-worth.html
“Jeremy Corbyn Net worth”. Spear’s. Update 30 Sept 2018.
https://www.spearswms.com/jeremy-corbyn-net-worth/
Wiki is a place to start to learn about this source, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear%27s_Wealth_Management_Survey
Yes politicians left, right and center do well. Lots of soft money, lobby perks, bribes, tycoon connections, big and bigger corruption… That Marxists are hypocrites iks not news. That Trump and cronies are doing especially well is policy objective.
Mac-101 says
That is the problem with Socialist countries. I looked at your link and the house is a shame for 3/4 million dollars. The house I owned and lived in back in the early 1970s was bulldozed by the City of Pittsburgh and it looked better than that. No LOL! I guess a million won’t by what it used to! LOL!
Phil Copson says
“I just read pure venom.”
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I’d get your eyes tested then – Corbyn and his friends support mass murderers and terrorists, he’s never done a proper job in his life, he is a perfect example of somebody who exploits the poor by living off their taxes whilst never having done a hands-turn in his life nor created a single job – (unlike the wicked “capitalists” he hates…) – but you find Hugh Fitzgerald to be venomous ?
Like his idols Lenin,Castro, Maduro etc, he is a “hobby Communist” – eager to deprive others of their rights but making damn sure that he never has to endure what he inflicts on others.
gravenimage says
+1
Hugh Fitzgerald says
A note on “Salon Bolshevik”:
“Limousine liberal” was good. Good even for a month or so after its first recorded use by Senator Alphonse D’Amato or some other Republican politician in New York at least 30 years ago. But it had a shelf-life. That phrase wore out. Just the way the word “redux” as in “your-word-here redux” has outstayed its Updike-generated, Dryden-lifted welcome.
Much better than “limousine liberal,” and still without having gone past its expiration date or scadenza, is “Salon Bolshevik.” Though nicely alliterative, “limousine liberal” fails to offer much contrast, and therefore depth to the picture (useless to keep fiddling with that dial), between the noun-used-as-an-adjective and the noun itself.
“Salon Bolshevik,” on the other hand, makes a greater demand on the audience (what’s a salon? what’s a Bolshevik?), has greater contrast and therefore depth, and puts Madame du Deffand and Bukharin at the same gathering, where he asks her, or she asks him, the eternal question: “You hate parties, too?”
Use “Salon Bolshevik” all you want.
Mac-101 says
Do you know of an American or European Democrat or Socialist PoliTick who is NOT a Millionaire after 20 years? In the US it seems they are worth 10 to 100 Million once they retire due to shenanigans with their spouses businesses and their political power.
Paul says
This is the source: Spears magazine.
This is the quote: Over 30 years, he has claimed over £3 Million from the state alone. This is 1.5 million more than a normal MP. Once he retires, he’s set to earn £1.6 million pension.
He’s had £3 million in wages and expenses. That doesn’t mean he has that much in the bank. He has a fantastic pension but the money is for all long serving MP’s.
The article is massively ignorant of the facts of life. You get wages and you spend the money. You can’t put away every penny. House prices in London are ridiculous and he got a council house bargain. You cannot abuse him for that.
Paul
Mac-101 says
So why does the British government keep importin people into Britain if it cost so much to live there and an average Bloke can’t make it without gubermint benefits? Ever society MUST have a large underclass?
Paul says
I am part of the underclass. Our jobs are taken by Eastern Europeans who undercut wages and run scams so they don’t pay taxes and National Insurance.
The underclass votes Labour or UKIP so they have no qualms in stamping us down.
Becoming an MP, an MEP, or a part of NGO (Non governmental organisation) means you can suck off the teats off the state so they don’t care for us.
I’m getting out
Paul
Mac-101 says
Can’t argue with what I assume you are sayin Secure the borders and STOP Immigration. But is that the policy of Labour?
James Lincoln says
Paul,
Gerard Batten, as current leader of UKIP, is a breath of fresh air- especially regarding how the UK needs to deal with Islam.
But you’re certainly right about Labour.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Here is what I find at the website of Spear’s magazine:
Jeremy Corbyn
Net Worth : £3 million
Change : £-9,667 – % -0.3 (Last Updated: 09.29.18 )
Politician
British politician who has been the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn has an estimated net worth of £3 million.
He can both have received £3 million and have a net worth of £3 million. The question is how. How many appearances, for example, has he made on television shows like the Iranian one, that netted him £20,000
Ray Jarman says
Corban and his wife are perfect examples of the Communists who are or wish to be part of the ten percent who will rule the ninety percent. Rather than robbing banks as Stalin did prior to the Bolsheviks’ usurpation of power in Russia. Lenin was living pretty well in Switzerland, especially in Bern where he frequented the “in” places of the day, i.e., the coffee houses. One might ask their fellow citizens who is to blame for the likes of Corban and his fellow comrades being permitted to commit crimes and be lauded for their contempt for the public? If the electorate would demand better people be elected (I don’t see the Tories as being the alternative as led by May), who is to blame?
It is not only the UK that has likes of Corban. In America, we have the likes of Maxine Waters, who has accumulated millions and doesn’t even live in district she supposedly represents. Canada has their Trudeau and France has her idiot in charge, Macron. Not one of these despicable excuses for public servants are worthy to hold office and only the voters can put them out of office. I truly fear for my country if President Trump is not re-elected. Italy, Austria and the Visegrad Group shine like a bright star for the rest of the civilized world to immolate.
jewdog says
I’ve read that Corbyn has supported IRA terrorists. The IRA is basically the Irish jihad, so I’m not surprised. Anyone opposed to western civilization is a hero in leftist eyes. That’s probably why the Muslims tend to ignore the Uighurs.
nicholas tesdorf says
That picture of Corbyn and his wife is worth a thousand words. In it, you can read their faces marked with the inner suppression of racism, exploitation of the poor, anti-semitism, Nazism, Communism, greed, intolerance and hatred of society.
Elisha says
It’s all well and good to point out the glaring hypocrisy of Socialists/ism but what do you see when you look in the mirror, Hugh? We have ALL sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Stop and ask yourself what, exactly, opened the door to Marxism? Yes, that’s right, the philosophical delusion of Darwinism. Perhaps you could consider to spend some time researching people like Sir William Ramsay or James Warner Wallace on how they came to know Jesus Christ based on the overwhelming evidence (historical, prophetic and scientific) that attests to the veracity of the Creation account in the Bible. Knowing truth only requires courage and humility:
The Lord is near to all who call upon Him,
To all who call upon Him in truth. – Psalm 145:18
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says:
“God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble.” – James 4:6
But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But THE NATURAL MAN DOES NOT RECEIVE THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, BECAUSE THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED. – 1 Corinthians 2:10-14
Hugh Fitzgerald says
“what do you see when you look in the mirror, Hugh?”
Someone who needs a shave, Burma or otherwise, it hardly matters.
gravenimage says
Excellent, Hugh.
Smart guy says
The philosophy of Socialism is “Struggle” written by Emanuel Lasker a world chess champion. In German it is “Der Kamph” Hitler used the title “Mein Kamph” to appeal to other socialists. The philosophy of “Struggle” is the opposite if “Bleeding heart Liberalism” It calls for the working class to fight in order to improve their standard of living. As a result of fighting by Longshoremen in America they have achieved a very high standard of living. on the other hand “Bleeding heart Liberalism” has destroyed the unions, for a first world nation American workers are the least paid compared to the Germans. Calling on employers to feel sorry for their workers does not work. Only solidarity and struggle works. When it comes to Islam the ruling class wants us to feel sorry for the impoverished Muslims, this nonsense will only lead to our lowering of our living standard. Their refusal to fight against their overlords is not our problem. Workers who do not fight against their oppression need to be classified as scabs and traitors to the underclasses. Labour members who do not see Muslims as scabs do not deserve to be called “Socialists”
Baucent says
He’s clearly a “Champagne socialist” of the worst hypocritical type. Feathering his own bed, while projecting an image of wearing ill fitting second hand clothes, mouthing worker’s rights, while his wife pays them a fraction of her profits.
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: Jeremy Corbyn and Laura Alvarez, Salon Bolsheviks
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More totalitarians.