Ronn TorossianRonn Torossian

Both The Independent and The Telegraph this weekwrote editorials condemning the appointment of Seumas Milne, as head of communications for the UK’s Labour Party, as well as for the leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn.

A former comment editor at The Guardian, Milne fits right in with Corbyn, an extreme leftist who referred to terrorists from Hezbollah and Hamas as “friends.”

Milne has written, “communism in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and elsewhere delivered rapid industrialization, mass education, job security and huge advances in social and gender equality.”

He also claims that the former USSR “encompassed genuine idealism and commitment” and when East Germany was no longer communist, he complained Soviet-controlled East Germany was “…a country of full employment, social equality, cheap housing, transport and culture, one of the best childcare systems in the world, and greater freedom in the workplace than most employees enjoy in today’s Germany.”

It doesn’t end there. Milne recently praised “the innate humanity of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara’s legacy” and complained that the media ignored “the other [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad, who is seen to stand up for the country’s independence, expose elite corruption on TV and use Iran’s oil wealth to boost the incomes of the poor majority, is largely invisible abroad.”

When Lee Rigby, the off-duty army officer who was pulled from his car and beheaded on a British street, Milne noted that the “attack wasn’t terrorism in the normal sense of an indiscriminate attack on civilians.”

Even the greatest PR firm in the world couldn’t spin this one.

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