Better to Fidel while Rome burns . . . . .

It would seem that Fidel Castro was not really a bad man.

He was " a huge figure of modern history", "a champion of social justice", a man who "stood up for something very, very, different" and "a giant among global leaders whose view was not only one of freedom for his people, but for all of the oppressed and excluded peoples on the planet".

Now the aforementioned quotes weren't from Vladimir Putin. He simply stated that the late President Castro was a "distinguished statesman", the "symbol of an era" and a "sincere and reliable friend of Russia". Yep, so reliable that if Nikita Krushchev hadn't been made of such strong stuff, he would, at Castro's suggestion, have pushed the missile button and not just started World War Three, but actually wiped Cuba off the map in the process.

No, the first three quotes were from the most unsuitable UK Labour leader of modern times, Jeremy Corbyn, the latter, from the unkempt-haired president of the Republic of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, a giant amongst the rose bushes.

What these premium statesmen of the world political scene fail to realise is that Castro's dictatorship was an unmitigated and epic disaster of brutal and oppressive proportions. Free education and healthcare for all, yes, but with unbelievable poverty and food shortages and rationing. In fact, Castro was so good for Cuba, that over 1million Cubans exited stage left for Florida in the USA during his rule.

And in keeping with the plaudits handed out by both Mr Corbyn and President Higgins, independent media outlets were closed down wholesale, priests and homosexuals were dispatched to 'correction' camps and American rock music was declared the sound and work of the devil.

Put in a nutshell, it was nothing but a prime example of a first-class Communist failure. Which possibly explains why it ranks so highly in Mr Corbyn's top five regimes, presumably alongside his good friends in Hamas and the IRA.

Meanwhile back in England, and the BBC's Question Time programme of Thursday 24th November.  Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, himself not exactly a beacon of actinic light on the UK political stage, became unwell and was unable to appear. Not really such a bad thing (not that I wish him unwell), because all he would have done would have been to bleat on and blame the Tories for everything while forgetting Labour was in fact in charge during the 2008 financial crisis. Anyway, the BBC asked former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (2015) Chris Leslie to step in instead.

Back at Labour HQ, chains weren't as much rattled as flushed as hard as they could be, and Mr Corbyn's IKEA cabinet went into dowling and screws overdrive and very speedily sent one of their other stand-by leftie loons, Andrew Gwynne along to get in on the act instead.

While Mr Gwynne managed to get as far as the Green Room, an astute member of the Question Time team realised Mr Gwynne wasn't exactly Mr Leslie, and asked him to pack his flat-pack and screwdriver and leave.

Now in trying to get Mr Gwynne on the panel when the BBC had already decided the stand-in they required, isn't that all rather Castro-ish and Cuban of Mr Corbyn's shady and dysfunctional cabal, eh?

It's a hard labour for Labour

Oh for goodness sake, I wish Labour people would get a grip now, pack it in already going on at Mr Blair and concentrate now on getting rid of their inconsequential leader and his Momentum fascists and provide some proper opposition to the Tories.

Are you all so blind that you can't see what a waste of space Mr Corbyn and his £3 supporters are? You can't possibly be that silly. Or can you? Get someone in who can actually lead the party out of its morass and salvage at least some of your credibility.

Face up to it, you now need to stop fooling yourselves and being so dishonest to the British public. Mr Corbyn is a total and utter disaster. If he had anything about him, he'd admit it himself and stand down, thus at least salvaging some of his own self-respect. Posting bloody silly happy-clappy videos on his Facebook page, like all is fine and dandy.

It's not fine and dandy. Even a child can see that. Not by the remotest figment of the imagination. What is up with you?

He's actually now a liability to fine politicians and statespeople such as Hilary Benn, Margaret Hodge, Sadiq Kahn, Keith Vaz, Alan Johnson, Chuka Umunna and Dan Jarvis, to name but a few.

And please, don't go on about how he was democratically elected by the membership. It was, what seemed to a group of people at the time, a good way to refresh the party and its thinking in the wake of the General Election drubbing, but it went so spectacularly wrong that many of the MP's who supported him for leader are now more than thoroughly embarrassed. They didn't envisage he would be such a destructive force/farce.

From day one, the process was hyjacked by the Momentum fascists, their supporters, other miscellaneous Socialist miscreants and most sadly of all, by those £3 instant members (including members of the Conservatives and UKIP) who joined for no other reason than to have Mr Corbyn elected and thus prevent the future electability of the Labour Party as Government.

Of the 216 Labour MP's who turned out to vote in the secret ballot on 'no confidence', 172 voted that they had no confidence in Mr Corbyn’s leadership. Just 40 MPs voted to back Mr Corbyn, along with 13 abstentions and 4 spoiled ballots.

That's 75% voting no confidence and 81½% of total elected Labour MPs (the equivalent of an A in a state exam!) who do not support Mr Corbyn. How much more of a mandate is needed for you all to admit you are wrong and for the man to go. If the equivalent was happening in the Tory party, with 75% of Conservative MP's telling the PM to go, be honest, you'd all be at the front of the queue, braying like donkeys.

I, and I am sure many others, want there to be a credible and honest opposition to the current government, not a group of totally disillusioned Labour MP's led by someone with a mandate from a rag-tag bunch of £3'ers whose only interest is their own perverse far-left agenda.

And the 100,000 new members signed up to Labour since the Neverendum are like the people who buy the £79.95 restaurant discount 2 for1 Tastecard for £29.95 and then never use it again.

And don't get me started on Mr Ignorance (Len McCluckCluck).