Jeremy Corbyn Proves Politicians Can ‘Speak Human’ Without Being Bigots

For much of the last parliament, right up to the general election, the UK press was full of stories about a UKIP surge. This, despite the party having fewer members than the Green Party (and you’ll have to look really hard to find more than the odd think-piece on any ‘green surge’) – hitting a high of 42,000 in January 2015.
From this membership, the party generated 4 million votes in the 2015 general election.

In just the fortnight since Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour party, more than 60,000 people have joined the Labour Party. Labour doesn’t just have more members than any other main UK political party, it has more members than the Tories, Liberal Democrats, Greens, UKIP and the SNP combined.

This is the beginnings of a Labour movement, rather than a Labour Party.

As many of us in the alternative news space have predicted for some time, there was a latent social democratic/democratic socialist movement in the UK that has been without a political expression since 1997. As the chickens of neoliberalism came home to roost through the last decade, the numbers in this movement swelled. The Occupy Movement, Disabled People Against Cuts, the Student Movement – these were the canaries in the mine.
But everyone involved in those movements felt, like this writer, that there was simply no way of articulating these concerns or presenting a radically different socio-economic model through the parliamentary system. It appeared as if the neoliberals had an un-breakable grip on things.

Then the Labour Leadership election happened, and to be honest, every time I think about the Labour front bench I burst out laughing. Not in ridicule (this is the most exciting and innovative front bench of any party in my lifetime), but in utter disbelief that it has actually happened.

You almost had to feel sorry for the mainstream press while Corbyn appointed his front bench. They had their headlines all ready – no women, sell out, hypocrite. Then he went and appointed the first majority-female shadow cabinet in history, and they were no sell outs, this is a front bench of the Labour left.

Corbyn also does this really strange thing when he is asked a question – he answers it, like a person. There is no jargon or spin. He sounds like a regular human being, thinking about an issue out loud, in conversation with the person asking the question.

Whereas Ed Miliband’s New Labour ended up buffeted by this media, defending themselves against accusations of socialist intent by swinging ever harder to the right – Corbyn’s front bench have no such crisis. They are unashamedly left-wing progressives.

We have a Shadow Chancellor in John McDonnell who supported the WOW Petition, fought Atos, and has called out Capitalism itself as the source of our economic crises. Many of us who have engaged in popular activism in recent years have met and spoken with Corbyn and O’Donnell. It’s like seeing a couple of your favourite uncles suddenly placed in a position of real power.

I’ll never forget the morning after I was arrested while attempting to report the Critical Mass bike ride on the opening night of the London 2012 Olympics. Over 180 of us were kettled for hours, handcuffed, bussed to police stations around London and held overnight without a phone call to our loved ones. We had our DNA and fingerprints taken, and were given bailconditions without charge that restricted our freedoms of movement, assembly and protest.
The following morning, having come straight from Charing Cross police station, tired and smelly. I bumped into John McDonnell at a protest in Stratford. His response after I told him what happened was this:

“Those absolute bastards!”

Corbyn does not have the bombastic style of Farage, but he has something equally attractive, he has the ring of truth
about him.

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although of course it might make some go purple, or bright blue lol

The poll I saw earlier showd him to be more honest thatn Cameron.

Yep, and Labour now have more members that the Conservatives, the Liberals, UKIP and SNP all added together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And that is all because of JC.

Well we're spoilt for choice regarding the evil that now infests what's left of the Labour party......Clear & straight forward IRA supporters,Hamas supporters,ISIS supporters,anti armed forces supporters,anti British supporters & a shadow secretary for environment who hates meat eaters.

All lead by a disrespectful bastard who can't even be bothered to do up his top button at a war service memorial.

Very classy.

Your talking tosh and parroting the propaganda put out by the likes of the Daily Mail.  Shame, thought you had more brains than that Shady.

sassy wrote:Your talking tosh and parroting the propaganda put out by the likes of the Daily Mail.  Shame, thought you had more brains than that Shady.

Don't lie Sassy.

I'm not.

sassy wrote:Your talking tosh and parroting the propaganda put out by the likes of the Daily Mail.  Shame, thought you had more brains than that Shady.

What would make you think that?

Ben_Reilly wrote:

sassy wrote:Your talking tosh and parroting the propaganda put out by the likes of the Daily Mail.  Shame, thought you had more brains than that Shady.

What would make you think that?

LOL!  Just can't help themselves.

sassy wrote:I'm not.

You are also lying to yourself as my eyes & ears work very well,& I remember listening to & watching him give his support to the IRA.

I have no reason to lie as I'm simply explaining what I saw & heard him say.

Shady, all parties spoke to the IRA, if they hadn't Irish people would still be bombing and killing each other.

And something else.  He didn't want us to go to Iraq, we went to Iraq because, even though many Labour MPs voted against it, Conservative MPs voted with Blair.

If we had not have gone, many British soldiers would not have died and been maimed unneccessarily and we would not be in the bloody mess we are now.

Do you moan about Cameron sidling up to the Saudis?

sassy wrote:Shady, all parties spoke to the IRA, if they hadn't Irish people would still be bombing and killing each other.

Sassy,why don't you just say that you couldn't give a fuck about UK armed forces & wish them all dead.....in all your loonie left glory?

You know that Corbyn sucked up to & befriended the IRA.

Well as I come from a military family, I doubt I'm going to say that am I.  One of the reasons Corbyn wants jaw jaw instead of war war is to we don't have young men die unneccessarily.