Jeremy Corbyn at Glastonbury ugh

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What a creep!

Wowser

He is great. Enthusiastic, passionate and principalled.
He has consistently been a keen proponent of peace and equality throughout his life.
He is a thoroughly decent and likeable man, that has proved countless times he cares about people and creating a better world and fairer society.
His time is now.

he can hold a crowd; he didn't look awkward or embarrassed but didn't patronise or adopt ridiculous yoof speech and attire.

Clearly the OP doesn't know about Glastonbury's longstanding political involvement.

Ed Balls is there too and various other Labour folk. Pretty sure Nick Clegg went when young people liked him.

I'd rather listen to an actual politician that a pop star spouting politics. or a Hollywood legend

Fuck off theresa, no one likes you here.

Jc got invited and went down a storm. Imagine tm turning up! She would have rotten fruit thrown at her.

Did anyone listen to 'Dead Ringers' on Friday evening?

Yes, me. Very funny. The TM impression is brilliant. As is the Corbyn one ... and the take on him being there doing everything is funny.

"Bloody socialist" He had fucking well better be!

Utter creep. He's not a creep and a weirdo because that would be cool, just a creepy old geography teacher peddling a long-degraded ideology that never made any sense in the first place.

It all got a bit OTT at the end, just sayin'.

I don't know why people are under the impression he's anti-Brexit? He wouldn't stand for Remain alongside Cameron so he's a major contributor to Brexit.

Is he more of a creep than the person who wanted to bring in a dementia tax and to bring back fox hunting? The one who is taking funding away from schools but denying it? The one who couldn't bring herself to talk to the Grenfell survivors until shamed into it?

His speech was great. Politics is nothing new at Glastonbury. Tony Benn appeared often. Greenpeace always have a presence. Whatever the demographic of the audience, I can't imagine any of the other party leaders getting such a positive response.

Jeremy how dare you talk about politics at a music festival...

Aaaah.
Tony Benn.

He was bloody amazing.

Absolutely of course politicians should speak at festivals. Why on earth not?

If you disagree with what he had to say, fair enough. But it's an entirely legitimate platform for political discourse & no reason at all why May couldn't have done exactly the same (I suspect she'd have been dodging flying bottles of piss, mind you).

Of course believing and hoping for a better society for all is a really creepy thing to do... damn the better side of our human nature not!

I think he made a very aspirational and inspirational speech. Personally I hope we can all live up to those ideals.

Go back to your wheat field, Theresa.

Bottom I liked the bit about JC having 'sold out'.

Agree, he comes across fake to me.

OHHHH JER-EM-Y CORBYNNNNNN!!

🤘🏽

He's the future. Thank goodness. In this word of terror and evil, we need a leader with a genuinely good heart. And nobody can deny he's got that.

Damn. I've now got that Sting song (Field of some kind of cereal) running through my head and TM wafting through it like the Timotei girl.

He was fucking brilliant. I wish I could've been there to experience it.

"Creep"? is that the best you can do? Seriously?

The right are desperate to shut down political discourse as they have nothing positive to offer people IMO.

White you've set me off now!

I kind of get the feeling that the reason why a lot of people dislike/distrust JC is his massive appeal to young people, because even subconsciously some people think that young folk react to soundbites and follow people in the public eye blindly. That will be a controversial opinion, I know, but it's worth thinking about why he has this huge appeal to the young.

Young people, by and large, aren't stupid. I'd say this generation are more politically aware and engaged than mine (I'm 31) were at that age. They're the ones going into training, work and higher education with no real prospect of lifelong employment or owning a home any time soon. They know there's no 'magic money tree.' I like JC a lot and am a dyed in the wool leftie, but I do have reservations that he can't deliver everything he says, that it's too utopian. But something he is saying to young people is convincing them that he is the PM they want.

Wonder why he did not explain why he supported keeping the triple lock on pensions (which makes sure that pensions rise either at the rate of inflation, average earnings or 2.5% which ever is higher) or giving winter fuel allowance to millionaires (both of which the tories were going to ditch) for a crowd of mostly young people...

Obviously critical thinking is not part of peoples education these days.

he comes across fake to me.

Fake? It's an act he's been keeping up for a VERY long time if so! Like his whole life!

Even those who disagree with him surely admit he's nothing if not consistent. He has held the same views for decades.

What on earth is fake about him? He's one of the least fake MPs in existence!

Glastonbury is NOT just a music festival, like all the other summer festivals. There is so much more to it, art, spirituality, etc and politics is very much part of it.

I'm not a particular Corbynista, I have been particularly reticent of his leadership since the EU referendum, but my views are much more in line with his than the revolting Tories and the disgusting coalition with the DUP. So if my choice is between idealism and capitalism in its most revolting form, then I chose idealism every time.