Venezuela, the BBC and lessons Not drawn

The BBC has been dragged kicking and screaming into covering the tumultuous events in Venezuela and for good reason as it was a socialist flagship and there aren't many of those and it would not touch it with a barge pole - until it absolutely had to and it went into predictable meltdown, the way of all socialist utopias with all the others, onto the dustbin of history.

Now it reports all the drama but analysis is thin on the ground. Experts are wheeled in with their variegated positions but the overwhelming takeaway as the jargon goes is wholly and totally absent namely, this is what socialism leads to without fail. The implications and ramifications here in the UK are too obvious to make yet we must as Corbyn lurks in the shadows ready to pounce or slither into office on the debris of May's defeat re Brexit.

The parallells are obvious but not being made least of all from the BBC who carry a torch for Corbyn and would like nothing more than to see the the ceremonial ousting of the albeit lefty tories (as far as we are concerned) and the potential installment of the most extreme political semi Marxist leader this country has ever seen.

But do the people of Venezuela now get it? By all accounts no. There appears to be no soul searching going on whatsoever  as millions head for the border to Columbia for refuge and work, many of the professional middle classes having left the country in the last 8 years as they saw the Marxist writing on the wall. All we have heard from reportage so far is that they are in a state of bewilderment and cannot understand what is happening to their country. Really? They are certainly not going to get any help from the international media judging by the lamentably shallow reporting so far.

Will Corbyn be asked to give an account of himself re Venezuela? Probably not.He certainly won't be pressed by the BBC who are clearly in institutional denial as ever and are going to make sure only a fragmented, non conceptual, non philosophical range of the moment reportage will characterize their coverage of yet another socialist nightmare come to fruition.