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CHRIS LESLIE became the latest politician to fall foul of the famous Artist Taxi Driver yesterday after launching an attack on Jeremy Corbyn.
Britain’s best-known cabbie, real name Mark McGowan, took aim at the shadow chancellor in the latest video on his YouTube channel.
Mr McGowan began broadcasting progressive political diatribes and straight-to-the-point interviews with MPs and campaigners in 2010 and now has more than 48,000 subscribers.
In his latest rear-view rant, he gives a less-than-favourable verdict on Mr Leslie’s suggestion that Mr Corbyn’s economic policies are not credible.
Mr Leslie describes proposals to raise up to £120 billion through a crackdown on tax evasion and avoidance as a “starry-eyed hard-left” policy.
In an interview with Radio 4’s Today programme, the shadow chancellor said he could not serve in Mr Corbyn’s shadow cabinet “on principle.”
And he claimed Mr Corbyn’s “ill-thought-out” policies would “hurt those on the lowest incomes” the most.
Filming in his cab, the Artist Taxi Driver, who performed at a fundraising comedy gig for Mr Corbyn’s campaign, could barely contain his exasperation.
He blasted: “He said tackling tax evasions will not work. [laughs] What?!
“That’s his response to Jeremy Corbyn. You’re like…what! He said what?! The oligarchs have won. Give up. That’s his message.”
Mr McGowan mocked the “reds under the bed”-style scaremongering from Mr Leslie.
And, ahead of a huge rally in London last night, he reminded him that Mr Corbyn had been “packing out rooms, halls all over the country.”
Bringing the eight minute, 33-second monologue to an end, he concluded: “Jeremy Corbyn is representing millions upon millions of people.
“It’s just a little bit of social justice. What is wrong with that? Why are they so greedy? When is enough enough?”
More than 1,000 people had watched the video within a few hours.
Mr Leslie’s comments were also criticised yesterday as “simply absurd” by tax expert Richard Murphy, who is advising Mr Corbyn on economy policy.
“When opportunities to provide additional resources to crack down on tax avoidance and evasion do now exist, it would be scandalous for the Labour Party to ignore that chance,” he wrote.
“The real question is why Chris Leslie would not wish to undertake either activity.”
- Watch the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmg7tOwl8Vg
