Jeremy Corbyn at Glastonbury ugh

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What a creep!

CaptainBrickbeard

Can you not see the irony?
JC turning up at a festival full of white, middle class, well off people. As someone up thread said you don't go to Glastonbury if you're poor ( tickets well over £200 each )
I just find it all a bit yuck.

No one is scared of Corbyn.

Wrong

Should white middle class people not be addressed by politicians?

I guess money is only important when people like Aaron banks are funding Brexit.

He was invited to speak there, as other politicians have in the past.
Glastonbury has a strong history of activism, so this is nothing new.
What was he supposed to do? Decline?
He has shown far more support for poor and vulnerable people than TM ever has, why is it so bad that he's spoken at Glastonbury?
It's almost like people are clutching at straws to find any way they can to discredit him.

It's almost like people are clutching at straws to find any way they can to discredit him.

Yes, it's all sounding a bit desperate now isn't it?!

No. No one is scared of Corbyn. Why would they be? It's not like he challenges the status quo, despite the fairy stories. Let's look at his manifesto - giveaways to the rich, like non-means-tested WFA and abolition of tuition fees (which would actively disadvantage poorer students because places would then be restricted and the sharp-elbowed middle classes would get them all). Addressing poverty, like maybe lifting the benefits cap, nothing at all.

No. No one is scared of Corbyn.

Wrong again

With or without Jeremy Corbyn, Glastonbury is the epitome of white privilege. And of course comfortably off white people can spend their money on what they want, but don't preach to me in your hunter wellies & £300 sun glasses, jumping up & down to millionaire rock gods - yeah, you're really 'in tune' with the poor aren't you.

He has shook the neo liberal consensus that has led to mass inequality in this country, to the core. The Brexit supporting austerity peddling elites cannot comprehend it.

Are wealthy folk like Johnson, farage and gove in touch with the poor?

Yes, because disliking Corbyn based on facts and past performance is clutching at straws. We should all just swallow the Momentum lies and propaganda.

All those young people who apparently get their information from many sources - why do they then believe sheer lies about Corbyn? Why, when there is is not one singe shred of evidence to support it, do the lies persist? Why do people give credence to sites such as Sqwawkbox that ran a story saying they had definitive proof Corbyn negotiated with Unionists during the peace process, basing this revelation on a news story that Unionist representatives had been invited to a Labour conference in the early 90s? No mention of Corbyn whatsoever in the original article, but apparently the vague possibility that he might have been in the building at the same time seemed to be 100% guaranteed proof that he would have been frantically negotiating with them. Because Corbyn has such a demonstrable track record of talking to both sides. FFS, he wouldn't even LOOK at Cameron on the way to the state opening of parliament.

With or without Jeremy Corbyn, Glastonbury is the epitome of white privilege. And of course comfortably off white people can spend their money on what they want, but don't preach to me in your hunter wellies & £300 sun glasses, jumping up & down to millionaire rock gods - yeah, you're really 'in tune' with the poor aren't you.

Are white privileged middle class folk not allowed to care or campaign for equal opportunities for all classes and demographics then? Or should they only be self-serving Tories?

Like Bossa said though, this isn't the only place he's spoken at.
His record for talking to people is far more demographically varied and successful than TM's attempts, which came across as stage managed and poorly attended.

Give me a reason why anyone would be scared of Corbyn, pigeondujour. I mean, I suppose he could phone his IRA mates like he did to try to get one of his MPs to fall in line.

surfer I kind of feel like you're having a different argument here. So what if Glastonbury is a middle class crowd? Does that make Corbyn a creep for being there? I don't really see the relevance. Or is it that we can dismiss the views of everyone at Glastonbury because they are middle class? I don't understand your point.

He didn't look at Cameron? Better send JC to the tower of London!

The IRA disbanded 15 years ago.

It's ace,@lubeybooby. Watching them tremble is so fucking satisfying.

Terrorist sympathiser is my favourite shout. You'd have thought they'd have packed that in now

Of course the young like his idea of giving free stuff to everyone, they are mostly people who've never had to take responsibility for anything. One of the big Corbyn fans I know crowdfunded to live in Spain and do nothing because she apparently has a very rare allergy to mould in UK buildings and wifi rays. Says it all really.

Yep, like Maybot just empty soundbites and unfounded claims.

One of the big Corbyn fans I know crowdfunded to live in Spain and do nothing because she apparently has a very rare allergy to mould in UK buildings and wifi rays. Says it all really.

Hahahaha does it? Are you really sure that 'says it all'? Christ alive

" you RIDICULOUS subhumans."

"Watching them tremble is so fucking satisfying."

Well yes, that kind of rhetoric does scare me.

Good. Now you know how we've felt.