At 06:46, the digital fog rolls in and Bluesky erupts like someone’s just tried to resurrect Jeremy Corbyn using the front page of the Telegraph and a rusty Marxist ouija board.
Not Corbyn, obviously, but it would be nice to have somebody at least mildly left-wing as leader of the Labour Party. Somebody who doesn't have the political instincts of a potato would be good, as well.
Don't get me wrong I hate tories, and would have had jezzza over them, but god he's useless. As I say, a voice in the room discussing policy I could see that but beyond that, no way
"Look, we don't just publish the incoherent ravings of right-wing lunatics, we'll also publish left-wing ones if they're attacking the same people as us."
If I were an immensely popular leader of a major party with universally positively seen policies to boot I'd simply won at least one of the two general elections I led my party into.
Corbyn got a taste of the criticism all Labour leaders have
tolerated - but he couldn't handle it, so his supporters smothered him with hankies & sympathy.
Real life politics requires a strength that Corbyn doesn’t possess.
Jesus fucking Christ is there absolutely no charismatic, young articulate leader who can affectively sell socialism?? Just constant back to the tired, reheated shite of Corbyn who most of the electorate didn't really like despite the press onslaught
Yep, but that's the same for every Labour leader though. He just wasn't really liked especially on the doorstep. He just wasn't very good. You need to be fucking amazing salesman essentially to sell socialism to the UK electorate. John McDonnell would have been a better leader.
He wasn't liked because of the press onslaught. you have to be really naive to think otherwise. They'd do the same to McDonnell. It would have been easier, they'd just go after his health. Corbyn wasn't great at handling his party, but it's not the electorate, it's the media
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A peach among peaches.
https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/cranks-cults-and-comment-sections
10,269,051 votes in 2019 (hampered somewhat by Starmer championing the 2nd vote policy, only to promptly drop it when he was PM)
Both higher than Starmer’s 9,708,716 in 2024
But his pro corbyn message is not the correct message for the torygraph core readers.
Even “No real news, everything mostly harmless” would be better and more worthwhile as a headline…
The supposed golden era of journalism is gone, and not coming back.
Likewise, Mail, Express, Sun etc.
* A magic Brexit deal that had no downside.
** Free broadband for all etc.
Aaron Bastani: "Hold my beer"
#DontBuyTheTelegraph
And I didn’t think that was possible.
Corbyn got a taste of the criticism all Labour leaders have
tolerated - but he couldn't handle it, so his supporters smothered him with hankies & sympathy.
Real life politics requires a strength that Corbyn doesn’t possess.
But please, for the love of god, I don’t want to see another one based on a Farage-style cult of personality centred on Saint Jezza.
I really hoped we were done with this cra@p.
He is as unsuitable as Johnson
To lead our country in the current situation