The Goon Show

Of course, almost no one in Britain cares about Venezuela, and almost the only people here who could find it on a map are the supporters of the present government there, a small minority interest.

The attempt to stop the inevitable Corbyn Premiership (it is going to happen, and everyone knows that it is) by reference to a country picked more or less at random is having absolutely no effect whatever.

In that, it is like the attempt to stop the inevitable Corbyn Premiership (it is going to happen, and everyone knows that it is) by claiming that Jeremy Corbyn had made a commitment with regard to student debt that he simply never had.

Try as they might, his enemies were unable to find anyone who felt "betrayed" over that, so they have moved on to this instead. With exactly the same total lack of success.

Everyone knows that there is never any such thing as a spontaneous popular uprising. There is always someone behind any such thing, for good or ill, or for whatever combination of the two.

People know the CIA's Far Right goons in Latin America when they see them, and they have been all over the news in recent days, utterly unmistakable.

If anything, middle of the road British viewers would regard whichever side was against those as at least the better of the two.

After all, we have our own.

Chile in 1973 was the CIA's Far Right goons' dry run for Britain, and the Chile that they created was the model for the Britain that they went on to create.

That relationship was so close that no meaningful distinction was or is possible, as was thrust back into sight when Pinochet was detained in Britain, and again when he died.

Think of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, but with the level of integration that was possible by the 1980s.

Be in no doubt that, as they face the inevitable Corbyn Premiership (it is going to happen, and everyone knows that it is), Venezuela in 2017 is the CIA's Far Right goons' dry run for Britain.

Across a distance of five thousand miles, those goons are in full belligerent cry, from the benches in front of Corbyn to the benches behind him, from The Guardian to the rest of the Far Right newspapers that tellingly retain their influence no matter how few people read them, and from the BBC all the way upmarket to Sky News.

We have been warned.