Corbyn & Cabinet in the Media

[J Ed]

Spot the odd one out







According to 'journos' who are currently caught up in the cult of valuing civility (to them and the politicians they do sophistry for, they can be as uncivil to everyone else as they like) over everything else the first two are a lesson to Corbyn. What a fantastic illustration of the marginalisation of the average person in the minds of journalists. In the first two videos Obama and Trudeau were even reprimanding their own supporters for daring to loudly echo the views of the ruling class, but even that is too much for these 'civility' types.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

A media appearance

 

[weltweit]

I was surprised to see Corbyn on The Last Leg last night.

He handled it ok but I just wasn't sure about it.

I wondered especially when at one point the question was asked would you rather have a knob for a nose or a nose for a knob?

 

[brogdale]

 

[billy_bob]

I was surprised to see Corbyn on The Last Leg last night.

He handled it ok but I just wasn't sure about it.

I wondered especially when at one point the question was asked would you rather have a knob for a nose or a nose for a knob?

Well, what was his answer FFS?

 

[gosub]

Well, what was his answer FFS?

Thought they should stop looking at the world in terms of binary options

 

[killer b]

It was a pretty odd appearance. He was pleasantly rude about cameron & blair though.

 

[treelover]

k, this is a bit long for a status but I'm doing it anyway because I've sat on this for long enough. A couple of months ago I went round to speak to an elderly woman who was having a major problem with a cold draught blowing into her flat. The council had repaired a leak coming through the wall but she was still stuck with this air blowing through a gap between the floor and wall and the problem had been going on for a few months. As soon as I went round she wanted me to check out the problem and verify that it was as bad as she was saying, and sure enough it was pretty bad. She listed off the various council departments she'd spoken to in trying to get it fixed, but to no avail, so I suggested she contact her local MP. She said "Oh yeah, I went to see Jeremy Corbyn, and a week later he came round, he was crawling around on the floor like you were, feeling for the draught. I felt bad for his knees! He wrote a letter to the council for me and sent me a copy."


There's no amazing end to this story - as far as I know she still has this problem. I just think it's really nice that the national leader of the Labour Party still cares enough about his constituents that he follows up their housing concerns within a week and is humble enough to crawl around on the floor to investigate a mysterious breeze.

TL;DR I bloody love Jeremy Corbyn

Posted on JC4PM, revealing

 

[butchersapron]

Of what ¿

 

[ska invita]

The lead editorial in todays evening standard:
After a year of Jeremy Corbyn, Labour is unelectable

 

[Andrew Hertford]

don't ask me it's from too long ago

One reason Labour is fucked is that no matter what anyone says a very substantial number of ordinary working class people don't think it's at all obvious they'll be better off under a Labour government, or not enough to vote for them anyway.

Sorry to have to state the bleedin' obvious, but Labour need to appeal to more than just working class voters if they want to get elected. (And that's beginning to look like a big 'if').

Labour may be a shambles at the moment, but it's shit when unified too, so...

But not as shit as the tories.

Do you think Labour should stick to what Corbyn and the new members consider to be its core principles and stay in opposition for ever while the tories continue to erode our rights and public services?

 

[inva]

Sorry to have to state the bleedin' obvious, but Labour need to appeal to more than just working class voters if they want to get elected. (And that's beginning to look like a big 'if').

it's ok you didn't have to state it seeing as I said 'one reason'.

But not as shit as the tories.

Do you think Labour should stick to what Corbyn and the new members consider to be its core principles and stay in opposition for ever while the tories continue to erode our rights and public services?

I don't support Corbyn or Labour and wouldn't trust them to defend rights/services, so I'm not really interested in getting them elected anyway.

 

[redsquirrel]

Do you think Labour should stick to what Corbyn and the new members consider to be its core principles and stay in opposition for ever while the tories continue to erode our rights and public services?

Whereas you want a Labour government that will erode public services

 

[DrRingDing]

The tories have just shafted the corbyn cabal with scrubbing out islington north......

Corbyn's seat set to vanish from map under Tories' boundary changes

 

[Tankus]

Best laff of the day

 

[nino_savatte]

Sorry to have to state the bleedin' obvious, but Labour need to appeal to more than just working class voters if they want to get elected. (And that's beginning to look like a big 'if').



But not as shit as the tories.

Do you think Labour should stick to what Corbyn and the new members consider to be its core principles and stay in opposition for ever while the tories continue to erode our rights and public services?

I see you're still regurgitating 'the message', Andrew. Tell me, did it ever occur to you to ask questions about those 'messages'?

You've effectively repeated the Blairite message. I guess you also prefer to have MPs who are former Tories rather than proper socialists. Am I warm?

 

[ruffneck23]

The tories have just shafted the corbyn cabal with scrubbing out islington north......

Corbyn's seat set to vanish from map under Tories' boundary changes

If it goes through , even the tories are concerned about these boundary changes

 

[teqniq]

Yup

...But doubt has been cast over whether the plans will ever come into force, after they also put a higher-than-expected number of Tory seats at risk.

Theresa May’s MPs were said to be “shocked” by potential Conservative losses which could rise to 17 – the exact number of her Commons majority....

 

[MAD-T-REX]

the exact number of her Commons majority....

Dum dum dum.

Except these changes wouldn't come in until the General Election in 2020, so that majority would change anyway, and the majority party losing 17 seats when Parliament loses 50 overall isn't a bad deal.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Whereas you want a Labour government that will erode public services

Because he's the boy who cried "Kristallnacht".

 

[ViolentPanda]

I see you're still regurgitating 'the message', Andrew. Tell me, did it ever occur to you to ask questions about those 'messages'?

What, and actually have to think for himself? You bastard!

 

[SpackleFrog]

Sorry to have to state the bleedin' obvious, but Labour need to appeal to more than just working class voters if they want to get elected.

Why?

 

[nino_savatte]

What, and actually have to think for himself? You bastard!

It must be hard on his poor wee brain. Bless.

 

[Pickman's model]

I see you're still regurgitating 'the message', Andrew. Tell me, did it ever occur to you to ask questions about those 'messages'?

You've effectively repeated the Blairite message. I guess you also prefer to have MPs who are former Tories rather than proper socialists. Am I warm?

yeh but before them he prefers current tories

 

[Pickman's model]

Sorry to have to state the bleedin' obvious, but Labour need to appeal to more than just working class voters if they want to get elected. (And that's beginning to look like a big 'if').

yeh because there's so many in the middle class these days they hold the whip hand

 

[Favelado]

Worked out brilliantly letting the Blairites in last time didn't it? The country is more or less as it would have been after 30 continuous years of Tory government. Indeed better to have an opposition that believes in the same thing as I do, than have a government AND opposition totally opposed to everything socialist, decent, and progressive.

Where does your soft left get you in the end? Exactly where Thatcher wanted - just in 2030 rather than 2020. Great!

 

[nino_savatte]

soft left

I prefer to call them the 'flaccid left'.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

I prefer to call them the 'flaccid left'.

floppy leftovers

 

[Pickman's model]

I prefer to call them the 'flaccid left'.

impotent, as it were

 

[cuppa tee]

impotent, as it were

electile dysfunction