He is one of the most consistent politicians advocating for peace throughout his career, and his heart is definitely in the right place, but unfortunately he’s also been consistently demonstrating terrible political instincts.
I was initially quite excited with the announcement of a new party led by him and Zarah Sultana, but my excitement has definitely dwindled quite a bit because of how messy everything surrounding it has been so far. It also doesn’t help that he’s been bringing people like Adnan Hussain onboard, who is a self-proclaimed social conservative
(anti-abortion, anti-queer rights) and a landlord, which immediately undermines the party’s supposedly left-wing opposition to Labour. I don’t know what the fuck he’s doing, but things are already not looking good.I hope it’s because they intend to use the strategy of recruiting a lot and purging a lot
It makes little sense to assign reactionaries to high level positions within your new left-wing party with the intent of purging them later. Also, as leader of the Labour Party he had the opportunity to purge the Blairite wing, but instead chose to work with them while they undermined him from the inside. There’s no reason to believe there will be purges.Yeah you’re right I’m way too optimistic sometimes
He might be goated with the sauce but he isn’t able to bust it down sexual style. I don’t care how quirked up he is.
Corbyn has great intentions but is a hard sell in the world of politics by social media, image and presentation. Very few people review actual policies and very many take the bait of a simple single issue. In the UK the Nazi Farage is gaining ground by avoiding anything difficult other than a “simple solution”.
Farage is being offered a platform by corporate and state media. It’s not just that people are fools.
Exactly. Over the last ten years Farage has been on Question Time over 40 times. Corbyn once. And during that time he came within a hair of being Primeminister whilst Farage had less than five MPs total. Farage is a creation of the media & the British establisment.
I disagree. I was in that wave of Corbyn supporters in 2015 and I remember the genuine enthusiasm for him even from apolitical people. Never forget how well he performed against May despite most of his own party campaigning against him. Dismissing people as uninformed idiots is diminishing the effect of the united, extreme, and relentless efforts made by the media to both smear Jeremy and direct people towards right wing “populists”.
he’s too pure, too good for this awful world
Corbyn Supporters be like
Eh, I’m still in a waiting and see position with the new party, but the early signs aren’t great. He’s been fucking up again lately when it comes to mounting actual opposition.
(Perhaps unsurprisingly)
im not falling for it again awardhe’s not just transphobic either, he’s also a landlord, homophobe, and opponent of abortion rights
Maybe revolution really is impossible in the first world… /j
He’s been fucking up again lately when it comes to mounting actual opposition.
wait why
Corbyn is good ,what happened
hanging out with an outright social conservative and landlord who opposes LGBT+ rights and abortion for one (Adnan Hussain)
Whilst some of it has been exaggerated by the usual wrecker types (Trimbley, Lansman etc) Corbyn appears to have surrounding himself with a lot of his previous inner circle, including the likes of James James Schneider – who is good on TV, but had an undeniably moderating influence when Corybn was LOTO and also happens to be married to Keir Starmer’s primary spokesperson which is
– who seem to be mostly siloing themselves off and giving themselves titles rather than working with the newer more combative crop of people, mostly around Zarah Sultana.Zarah Sultana has been the one going on the attack over the last year, taking legal action against anyone who falsely tries to smear her as an antisemite, and has been unequivocally clear that she’s explicitly anti-zionist & rejects the false arguement for a supremecist Jewish state, rather than getting bogged down in liberal zionist talking points.
Corybn then did a widely promoted interview where, when asked about it as he obviously would be, he gave a really shitty, seemingly pissed off at Zarah answer about how it wasn’t helpful that she was bringing up that and the way the IHRA antisemitism definition was a trap. It was personally snarky and shitty, he lied about which definition he preferred (claiming he supported one that wasn’t put forward until two years later) and gennerally created a massive open goal for press and detractors to run with it as a wedge between them (which increasingly seems real) and obsess over it in the press.
As pointed out elsewhere, there’s also some pretty shitty, reactionary people in the orbit of the new party (even if they’re not officially candidates yet or anything) which is partly as a result of a lot of the people around Corbyn seemingly pushing hard for a more federated, loose party structure; the benefits of which might be to make alliances with green and independent MPs easier, but the downside is you’re likely to get a lot more shitty candidates and people in the wider orbit.
thanks for the explanation bro
But, but… He has to be anti-Semitic! He thinks Palestinians are people!
Corbyn and Sultana (and to an extent Skinner when he was still in politics) are some of the few UK politicians I can say with confidence are not pieces of shit. They have my vote in 2029.
Will always be. The goat. The jezza!!!
