To think I'd be seriously hacked off....

[nornironrock]

...if I'd spend hundreds on going to Glastonbury for the weekend, and then had to put up with that monumental prick Corbyn when I'd paid to listen to some awesome music???
And before the slaughtering begins, I'd have been equally pissed off if ANY politician had hijacked the stage for politics when I'd paid for music.

[AndTakeYourHorseWithYou]

YABU. Glastonbury is pretty big, it would have been pretty easy to avoid him, for all of five minutes or whatever.

[LaurieFairyCake]

It's not just a music festival. It's an environmental festival and a community festival.

And politics affects every bit of every day life.

So I think if they're invited and people want to hear them then those of us who weren't there should let them get on with it.

Clearly the people THERE who actually paid for their tickets don't agree with you.

[SnotGoblin]

I think the joy of festivals is that you can choose between acts and listen to whichever monumental prick you want to; whether that be spoken word or music. I'm no Ed Shearan fan either but I'm not sure it warrants me starting a thread about him headlining.

[FishInAWetSuitAndFlippers]

You wouldn't have had to put up with him. There's loads to do at Glastonbury and it's pretty easy to avoid hearing anything you don't want to hear.

He was invited, he didn't hijack the stage

[HarrietKettleWasHere]

There was still like, a shit load of music going on.

It's not like they bumped off an act for him or anything!

YABU if you don't understand that Glasto is about much more than the music.

[Butterymuffin]

Wasn't aware that buying a ticket for an event meant you were guaranteed to be enthralled by every single second of it! That's the risk you take.

Plus wasn't Corbyn on for 10 minutes? If you can't entertain yourself or find something to do for that amount of time, you need to get a life.

[ArtemisiaGentilleschi]

Does your username have any special significance or connection to your hatred of one of the people invited to Glastonbury?

[Peckwater]

Have you ever been to Glastonbury, OP? It's enormous. So much is going on simultaneously in different venues across a huge site that no one is obliged to encounter non-music acts of any variety if they don't actively choose to attend then. And JC 'hijacked' nothing -- he was invited. Like the Dalai Lama a couple of years back.

[Sunshinegirls]

Yabu and you don't understand Glastonbury

[AlternativeTentacle]

But you didn't go to Glastonbury did you?

[HarrietKettleWasHere]

I doubt OP has been to Glastonbury- seems a bit ignorant of the layout/size/what it's about.

It's like the size of a town OP. Imagine being in a town and having a big choice of restaurants so you avoid the one you're not keen on and go to a different one. It's a bit like that.

[PlayOnWurtz]

Yanbu op

[nornironrock]

Fair enough everyone - was just asking. And no, I don't hate Corbyn, I just think his politics are laughable. I'd have been hacked off with any politician. As I stated.

[Boynamedsue]

YABU. I don't suppose that many people go to Glastonbury expecting to like everything and it's not like they turned everything else off and forced people to listen to him. Also Glastonbury is political, always has been. So yep, YABU and a bit silly.

[JennyOnAPlate]

Yes yabu. Glastonbury has never been just about music.

[BertrandRussell]

You don't hate him, you just don't like his policies-but you call him a monumental prick. Riiiiiiiight.

[nobullshitallowed]

It's an environmental festival is it? @LaurieFairyCake

Op I agree, but I can't stand corbyn and his cronies.

[sparechange]

Glastonbury has always been political and left leaning
Michael Eavis has (unsuccessfully) run as a labour candidate, Billy Bragg has had god knows how many opportunities to speak
When WaterAid and Greenpeace were the main beneficiaries, they had stage time for them and their spokespeople to talk about their causes

But it is only one of several stages. And the stages are only part of the overall entertainment.

It's probably for the best that you don't buy a ticket. It doesn't sound like your sort of thing...

[bloodymaria]

nobull I very much doubt the organisers just leave all that detritus lying there until the next year's festival. It's held on a working farm.

[ExplodedCloud]

Michael Eavis invited him. Corbyn didn't hijack it.

[lanouvelleheloise]

With views like that, you wouldn't fit in there anyway so good job you didn't pay a fortune to be disappointed. Maybe stick to Take That concerts, Gary Barlow is a paid-up Tory.

[nornironrock]

Bertrand, the word "hate" is so loaded, and is very strong. I don't know the man, couldn't possibly comment on him as a person. Politically, he's a joke. Perhaps calling him a monumental prick wasn't a great choice of words.
And yes, I saw the images of the rubbish. Social conscience much in evidence there...

[BertrandRussell]

Khushi Feet -a charity set up by the dd of a friend did huge amounts of litter picking in exchange for a donation from Eavis. They were wearing T shirts and talking to as many people as they could about the education and welfare of street children in India.

I suppose you think that's hijacking too, OP?

[HoldBackTheRain]

OP if anyone's a monumental prick it looks like it's you

[nornironrock]

Well, it seems the views of everyone else are quite clear! I guess I'm in the (very small) minority in preferring my music to be uninterrupted - by anyone.

As for charities doing the litter picking - I think that's great. I also think it's pretty disgraceful it was required.