The Jeremy Corbyn thread

[Titanic]

Latest Westminster voting intention (31 Oct-1 Nov):

CON 41 (+1)
LAB 27 (+0)
LD 10 (-1)
UKIP 11 (+0)
OTH 11 (+0)

Corbyn's Labour resurgence continues apace.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Southwater (Horsham) result:
CON: 66.2% (+30.4)
LDEM: 19.5% (+2.4)
LAB: 7.5% (-2.1)
UKIP: 6.9% (-8.3)

Only a local election result from last week, but this was once a LibDem seat on Horsham District Council.

UKIP collapse.

Greens and an Independent didn't stand this time.

 

[Eeyore]

Whether you like Corbyn or not, yesterday's Sun assertion was a disgrace.

For those who don't know anything about it. Here is the proper version- as verified by the Veteran with him...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...emembrance-sunday_uk_58299981e4b09ac74c52d3be

And here are The Sun and Daily Mail links. Oh, look, they've been taken down....

https://www.thesun.co.uk/legal-remo...street-on-way-to-remembrance-sunday-memorial/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ay-parade.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Whether you like Corbyn or not, yesterday's Sun assertion was a disgrace.

For those who don't know anything about it. Here is the proper version- as verified by the Veteran with him...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...emembrance-sunday_uk_58299981e4b09ac74c52d3be

And here are The Sun and Daily Mail links. Oh, look, they've been taken down....

https://www.thesun.co.uk/legal-remo...street-on-way-to-remembrance-sunday-memorial/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ay-parade.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK

It's a ****ing joke particularly as the Daily Mail posterboy was posing for a picture in opulent surroundings with Trump instead of attending the Cenotaph.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Dear,

Last week's US Presidential election result was a global wake-up call.

Whether in the US or the UK, people are feeling left behind – marginalised by an economic system that makes them work harder for less, while hoovering up ever greater rewards for a small elite.

People are right to be angry. Our political and economic system is delivering rising inequality and falling living standards.

Young people today find it harder to get a home of their own, harder to find good secure jobs, and are landed in lifelong debt simply for wanting an education.

Older people see their children and grandchildren struggling, their libraries and community services cut, their friends’ social care get worse.

They’ve seen politicians privatise what were once our collective assets, and they are paying the higher bills and higher fares as a result.

If we, as socialists, don’t step forward and offer solutions, then into the vacuum step the merchants of hate and blame.

They see the problem, but instead of offering solutions to make people’s lives better, they offer someone to blame.

The Tories do the same. They have opened the door to UKIP and fanned the flames of fear.

The Tories pretend to understand people’s problems, but offer nothing but someone to blame.

Meanwhile, the economy is slowing again. People’s pay still hasn’t recovered from the last recession and housing costs have soared. The Tories are cutting schools’ budgets, have slashed social care and have put the NHS into its worst crisis.

It’s time for our party – half a million strong, with more members than all the other UK parties combined – to get out there to tell people why a Labour government matters.

Our party doesn’t have the benevolence of the press barons, it doesn’t have the donations of billionaires, so please speak to your fellow party members, trade unionists and friends and ask them to take part in our National Campaign Day on Saturday 26 November.


Yours sincerely

Jeremy Corbyn MP
Leader of the Labour Party

 

[alfredmizen]

It's a ****ing joke particularly as the Daily Mail posterboy was posing for a picture in opulent surroundings with Trump instead of attending the Cenotaph.

He's not allowed to attend the cenotaph, only parties with six or more mp's are.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

It's a ****ing joke particularly as the Daily Mail posterboy was posing for a picture in opulent surroundings with Trump instead of attending the Cenotaph.

Why would Farage be involved at the cenotaph?

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

He's not allowed to attend the cenotaph, only parties with six or more mp's are.

Well at least paying some respect at home rather than larging it up in the States with Billionaires, isn't that what you would expect?

 

[alfredmizen]

Well at least paying some respect at home rather than larging it up in the States with Billionaires, isn't that what you would expect?

No , it isn't , I'd expect him to be meeting trump and hopefully cementing links that will benefit this country, meeting the president elect some hardly "larging it up with a billionaire"

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

No , it isn't , I'd expect him to be meeting trump and hopefully cementing links that will benefit this country.

Ha ha OK then, if any other party political leader had been over there this weekend schmoozing with billionaires you'd be frothing at the mouth.

Personally I couldn't care less how people choose to remember but it is rank hypocrisy for him not to face up to criticism.

 

[Soulman]

Ha ha OK then, if any other party political leader had been over there this weekend schmoozing with billionaires you'd be frothing at the mouth.

Personally I couldn't care less how people choose to remember but it is rank hypocrisy for him not to face up to criticism.

I did not think Farage was a "party political leader", i did not think he would get an invite alongside the other "party political leaders"......... i may be wrong though.

 

[alfredmizen]

Ha ha OK then, if any other party political leader had been over there this weekend schmoozing with billionaires you'd be frothing at the mouth.

Personally I couldn't care less how people choose to remember but it is rank hypocrisy for him not to face up to criticism.

No I wouldn't, and as I said , meeting the president elect is not , in any way, shape or form "Schmoozing with billionaires"

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

I did not think Farage was a "party political leader", i did not think he would get an invite alongside the other "party political leaders"......... i may be wrong though.

Is he not current leader of UKIP?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Is he not current leader of UKIP?

Possibly. I think he was this morning. I can't keep up with his resignations and u-turns.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

No I wouldn't, and as I said , meeting the president elect is not , in any way, shape or form "Schmoozing with billionaires"

Let's not kid ourselves into thinking this trip involved much more than back slapping, drinking expensive whiskies and smoking expensive cigars eh.

 

[Soulman]

Is he not current leader of UKIP?

Did he get an invite as a ""party political leader".

 

[alfredmizen]

Let's not kid ourselves into thinking this trip involved much more than back slapping, drinking expensive whiskies and smoking expensive cigars eh.

You should have said you're "in the know", or I'd have thought yours was just a pisspoor attempt at scoring points .

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Possibly. I think he was this morning. I can't keep up with his resignations and u-turns.

TBF technically the last one wasn't his resignation, although it seems that officially Diana James never became leader anyway because the papers weren't filed before she quit.

 

[spring hall convert]

Let's not kid ourselves into thinking this trip involved much more than back slapping, drinking expensive whiskies and smoking expensive cigars eh.

Not even wearing a poppy either in the photo I saw.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

It's just a wind up on one side you've got the Sun and Mail running with a made up story about Corbyn doing a jig on remembrance Sunday when it was just a bunch of photoshopped images of him talking to a WW2 vet. On the other side you've got Farage setting off to the States for photo opportunities, despite the solemnity of last weekend in the UK. And nobody calls him out on it, not even those who get frothy mouthed at an empty lapel on the One Show.

It OK for the sun and mail to try and score political points on this issue but ole Farage gets a free pass.