Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[andysays]

What would he play?

In an anti-Semitic mood, probably...

 

[Artaxerxes]

If only Corbyn could play sax, then maybe everything would have been different

If Corbyn could for once not sit next to the bloke shouting "KILL THE JEWS!" and for once, just once, say "I stand against anti-semitisim, its not right, the Jews are great and I have absolutely no issue with Judaism or its followers" it'd be something.

Instead he nods along blithely as the racist next to him shouts along and then shoehorns in "I stand against anti-semitism and ALL forms of racism" every. damn. time. Just, if your asked to comment against anti-semitism can you just focus on that occasionally?

I've never been a Corbyn cultist and I've tried very hard to respect the man and I'm sure he means well and he's willing to stand up for socialism but he's also got massive massive flaws he seems incapable of seeing or addressing and he was surrounded by wankers like Milne.

 

[frogwoman]

Around the time me and my mate had a joke which went something like this

'Oi!!! Your dog just shat on the path you havent cleaned it up'
'That's an outrageous smear! If a dog, or any other animal has shat on the path then I condemn that, but I see no evidence that it has. I think you just don't like dogs'
'Ugh I just stepped in it, aren't you going to clean it up? Look, it's doing it again'
'I have owned dogs for 37 years and none of them has done a shit in this park or any other park in that entire time. I've spent my entire life condemning owners who don't clean up after their pets. Look, theres a cat over there chasing a squirrel are you going to condemn that?'
'Clean up after your dog ffs!'
'Bloody Jews'

 

[bimble]

Trying to imagine what instrument might suit JC. A banjo is not quite right but not far off.

 

[Pickman's model]

Trying to imagine what instrument might suit JC. A banjo is not quite right but not far off.

He's widely recognised as a master of the kazoo

 

[Knotted]

 

[LDC]

Trying to imagine what instrument might suit JC. A banjo is not quite right but not far off.

The triangle. Chimed hesitantly and with poor timing.

 

[killer b]

musical saw.

 

[Pickman's model]

The triangle. Chimed hesitantly and with poor timing.

 

[bimble]

maybe the piccolo trumpet.

 

[Pickman's model]

maybe the piccolo trumpet.

And as well as the kazoo he's a noted virtuoso on the hurdy-gurdy

 

[killer b]

He cited John Lennon's Imagine as his fave song, so tbh I don't think he's very interested in music.

 

[Raheem]

He plays the Jew's harp.

Sorry, I meant to say he thinks the Jews harp.

 

[Knotted]

He plays a good Jew's Harp. Unironically.

 

[Knotted]

Snap

 

[Pickman's model]

He cited John Lennon's Imagine as his fave song, so tbh I don't think he's very interested in music.

His favourite song
Galloway's favourite song
Who else's?

 

[Knotted]

Hitler's?

 

[bimble]

Imagine is such a shit dirge of a song. About as interesting, musically, as happy birthday or god save the queen.

 

[Raheem]

His favourite song
Galloway's favourite song
Who else's?

Picked on Desert Island Discs by Billy Connolly and Natalie Wood, apparently.

 

[LDC]

Shit, I think that was what I had in my subconscious.

 

[killer b]

Imagine is such a shit dirge of a song. About as interesting, musically, as happy birthday or god save the queen.

It's not his favourite song at all, he obviously doesn't care at all about music and had to cast around for something, anything, and it was the first thing he alighted on. He's probably only ever heard it in passing.

In the same interview he said Joyce's Ulysses was his favourite book and all the melts mocked him wildly for it, claiming there's no way he's read that 'cause he's so thick, then it turned out he had. They missed the target - they should have gone in on Imagine.

 

[HatesATourist]

it's a good piece this - surprising there isn't more out there which lays out the case tbh, considering how corrosive The Canary and it's ilk have been in recent years. Also interesting that our own thread on the topic is one of the more substantial sources referenced in it...

Cheers! Also, an obvious thanks to everyone whose research I cheekily nicked off that thread.

Completely agree the formatting is shit. If I'd actually realised it was going to explode it it did yesterday I might have put some effort into fixing it.

The other legit criticism I've had (thanks K) is that it gets overly focused on the business model stuff and doesn't cover the Icke/Topple/Allen stuff in anywhere enough detail. That's fair; all I can really say is that was the focus of the piece and I'd not actually expected it to be used as an introduction to all the issues with The Canary as it has been recently.

The centrist anger seems to be that Corbyn has done an interview with independent media organisation that has not got establishment approval.

Yeah, proper centrist me.

These same centrists have no problem with themselves doing interviews with far worse publications/radio stations. No anger that a centrist MP did an interview with a Sun journalist who sourced neo nazi websites to draw up a hit list of Labour Party members, no problem with the leader doing radio phone ins with a virulent racist.

And then the 'whataboutery' nonsense is wheeled out to to cover their rank hypocrisy.

Then wash and repeat.

This is all about the gatekeepers stamping their feet and imposing their views on what is acceptable media and which is not, and all too often, the media they are gatekeeping is far worse than anything the Canary has published.

Can't even be bothered being saracastic here. Have I made enough Tweets attacking the Daily Mail to fit your weird purity test for being allowed to despise Ickite weirdos?

 

[killer b]

If I'd actually realised it was going to explode it it did yesterday

how much of an explosion are we talking about here?

 

[Artaxerxes]

It's not his favourite song at all, he obviously doesn't care at all about music and had to cast around for something, anything, and it was the first thing he alighted on. He's probably only ever heard it in passing.

In the same interview he said Joyce's Ulysses was his favourite book and all the melts mocked him wildly for it, claiming there's no way he's read that 'cause he's so thick, then it turned out he had. They missed the target - they should have gone in on Imagine.

Only actual wrong uns read Ulysses, everyone else just pretends to.

 

[HatesATourist]

how much of an explosion are we talking about here?

Up to over 5000 views with another 5000 on the home page which I suspect is mostly from that. 4800 of the post views come from the past two days. Obviously, nothing for the big name bloggers, but I've only got one other post that managed to scrape just over 1000 and that was people searching "filesharing". (Who must have been sadly disappointed when they realised it was a post about the political ethics of using Tor for that purpose).

 

[killer b]

Fair - it's the only thing that really comes up on google (other than our thread) when you search for a critique of The Canary from the left, and there will have been a LOT of people wanting something to show their crank mates in the last couple of days...

 

[hitmouse]

thinking about it, your username is further proof of what I was saying about Pulp being the choice of the proper sound no-messing-about internationalist communists.

 

[danny la rouge]

Welcome HatesATourist And thanks for that article.

 

[frogwoman]

that piece was also linked in a fb group chat I am in yesterday. I thought by the person who wrote that but obviously not lol welcome

 

[chilango]

If only Corbyn could play sax, then maybe everything would have been different

Hmmm