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Corbyn has deliberately been sidelining the MSM and going social...
And that is as much the fault of the people who surround him who should doe exactly what Sanders' team were doing for him, filling in the gaps with a social media blitz.
Which is why supporting Corbyn and expecting him to win the next election is a bit of a struggle, he's just not working in the 21st century but expecting to communicate with people who do. Personally, I wish there was somebody else, but we are where we are keep to the Fen Causeway
That's the whole problem with the coup. If there's a potential leader to be found on short notice within the pool of Labour MPs, it's not obvious. Everybody's locked into either the Blairite or the anti-Blairite factions. Nobody's really got a vision for what Labour should be.
Simply saying "Recruit a bunch of young progressives to run against establishment figures" sounds great. In the US, you can do that via our primary process and grassroots fundraising. Dem and Rep activists have both pulled it off in recent history. Not so easy in Britain. The parties there are incredibly powerful. Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
At this point I'm beginning to suspect that the best way forward is to invite everyone from the last forty years of politics to Westminster, and then bury it under half a mile of concrete.
The problem with Corbyn, from my view, is this: Other than opposition to austerity (which I'm, of course, with him 110% on) and the National Investment Bank/"People's QE" (which sounded intriguing but, alas, was probably largely just populist rhetoric), I don't really understand what he stands for. He seems to have been a protest candidate who won, and now he doesn't really know what to do. The dog who caught the car, basically.
I could be wrong, but that's my impression of him. Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
Sure, anachronistic. Completely unadapted to the current political landscape, yes!
We have become so used to the usual BS, it's chronic.
Normalised pathology, it's nice to know plenty of folks feel sick and tired of these politics, and want a simple, ordinary human with old-fashioned values instead of a cult of personality and a spin-machine to sell it.
As the Nasty Party goes into spasm prior to Chilcote revelations phony Tony is working all the old gears to try and head off the threat looming over him.
Leave or remain, a sideshow compared to what threatens Tory credibility.
I mean, Gove, FFS. May, pleeeease.
Boris has given a preview to you merkins what Chump is about to do to your Grand Old Perverts party.
Again, Ryan, wtf? 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
If I may hazard a guess, what his followers want (other than the 2 features you mentioned) would be -is- that he be free from the rancorous betrayal of labour values embodied in Blair, Cambell and Mandelson, aka tory-lite.
That gets to precisely my point though. His whole schtick is just "That shit sucks" rather than saying, "You should make me PM, because I'll do x, y and z."
It's great to be against Thatcherism and Blairism n(I think we all agree with that), but what does that mean as a practical matter for the generic Brit on the street? Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
What is needed in a crisis like this is urgent government action to shore up investment, already falling before the vote. Shovel-ready projects should be brought forward, creating jobs and focused on beginning to rebuild those parts of the country currently most deprived - and where the vote to Leave was strongest. As a country, we will get through this crisis, and we will do so when we no longer tolerate a situation in which too many of our people are excluded from even the chance of prosperity.
Jeremy would no doubt agree: "I think the media's attitude towards the Labour Party and our campaign has been horrendous." His shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, has long been associated with the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom -- as has the Morning Star. The campaign calls for curbs on the power of the handful of super-rich tycoons who control the bulk of the British press. Would a Corbyn government take action to break up media monopolies? "Yes," he says immediately. "We are developing a media policy based on breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information. "And actually promoting co-operative ownership and co-operative access, including local TV and radio stations and newspapers like the Morning Star."
Jeremy would no doubt agree: "I think the media's attitude towards the Labour Party and our campaign has been horrendous."
His shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, has long been associated with the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom -- as has the Morning Star. The campaign calls for curbs on the power of the handful of super-rich tycoons who control the bulk of the British press.
Would a Corbyn government take action to break up media monopolies? "Yes," he says immediately. "We are developing a media policy based on breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information.
"And actually promoting co-operative ownership and co-operative access, including local TV and radio stations and newspapers like the Morning Star."
Go cuddle up with Gove already.
That apple really did roll far from the tree... 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
I'm also rather fond of his People's QE. Putting the idea out there that banks get free money and you could to is the most effective attack on the household capacity I can think of on short notice.
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