Corbyn Radio Interview

[brainiac]

JC about to be interviewed on Jeremy Vine Radio 2. We need all the laughs we can get at this time.....

[andy-hughes]

roy - // 5 contributors on this thread are (to put it politely) not impressed with you as a moderator. I guess though, they're the problem. //

Obviously I am not making my position clear.

First of all, I only care what the Editorial Team think of me as a Moderator - individual opinions I ignore, which includes yours of course.

Secondly, this thread is about Jeremy Corbyn, it is not your personal sniping range, so our exchange on this tedious side issue with which you have an unnatural obsession is now concluded.

Thanks for your compliance.

[ichkeria]

This thread hasn’t been about Jeremy Corbyn since about post 2

[andy-hughes]

ich - // This thread hasn’t been about Jeremy Corbyn since about post 2 //

Hopefully that will change from now on ...

[ichkeria]

I wouldn’t hold your breath.
I was going to listen to the interview so as poor old Ken would have someone to keep him company but then I remembered I had a life of sorts

[royfromaus]

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Secondly, this thread is about Jeremy Corbyn,


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None of which were about Corbyn.

[andy-hughes]

ichkeria - // I was going to listen to the interview so as poor old Ken would have someone to keep him company but then I remembered I had a life of sorts //

Corbyn has not actually departed yet, but I wonder if he will carry on the grand tradition of politicians who have had a sniff of power of some sort, and simply cannot accept that it's gone, their time is past, and their opinions are no longer particularly sought, or noted - Tony Blair being a classic example.

[allenlondon]

I’m afraid things go to peoples’ heads. My comments about 80 wpm typists whose posts were consequently overlong named no names... and yet Andy Hughes, a notoriously wordy poster, found the cap fitted. Perhaps he was right, perhaps not.

But there are, more’s the pity, several word-guzzling posters on this site. When will we hear from them?

[andy-hughes]

allen - // and yet Andy Hughes, a notoriously wordy poster, found the cap fitted. Perhaps he was right, perhaps not. //

Of course I'm right - never knowingly undersold!!!

[Deskdiary]

Corbyn's a clown.

To be fair to him, I think he's a well intentioned clown, but nonetheless he's a clown.

Astonishingly, he's a clown loads of people voted for, and if I live to 100 I will never understand the mentality of those that did.

[drmorgans]

A lot of people, particularly the young, haven't really benefitted from globalisation, in the same way that older people did - no comfy careers, final salary pensions, cheap houses that became valuable assets - and the Corbster offered the hope of doing things differently. Of course we knew he didn't have a hope of achieving any of it because he's never really done anything in government or opposition.

[andy-hughes]

drmorgans - // … and the Corbster offered the hope of doing things differently. //

Except he didn't.

Corbyn and his allies exist in an imaginary world which they think is what Britain was once like, and to which they yearn to return.

The reality is, Britain was never like they imagined it to be, and added to that, they utterly misread the serious rise in aspirational thinking and achievement in core Labour voters.

His 'hope' was a bizarre fantasy that even hard-core Labour voters didn't swallow for a moment, and they will need to demonstrate that as a party, Labour have actually joined the electorate back here on Planet Earth if they are to have any realistic chance of being a credible opposition, much less a potential party of government.

[naomi24]

//Corbyn and his allies exist in an imaginary world which they think is what Britain was once like, and to which they yearn to return.//

I disagree. Corbyn and his allies exist in a dream of aspiration to a world that this country has never seen - and hopefully never will.

[andy-hughes]

naomi - // //Corbyn and his allies exist in an imaginary world which they think is what Britain was once like, and to which they yearn to return.//

I disagree. Corbyn and his allies exist in a dream of aspiration to a world that this country has never seen - and hopefully never will. //

That is essentially what I just said - they want to 'return' to a UK that has never actually existed outside their fevered imaginations.

[Ken4155]

Ichkeria @ 20.22; Less of the 'poor old Ken', if you don't mind. I am Ken, of course, but i'm not poor and I certainly don't consider myself 'old' just yet. Compared to quite a few on here, i'm just a nipper. I don't even get my pension 'til next year :-))
I wasn't exactly sticking up for Corbyn, by the way; merely stating the fact that he was talking sense. He was asked questions by Vine and he answered clearly and honestly. The fact that he is almost as disliked as Hitler is neither here nor there.

[allenlondon]

The pendulum swings. 75 years ago, a huge majority of the British people wanted change - socialist change - and we got it, with the NHS, the Welfare state, education reforms, and so on.

Now it’s ‘your’ time in the sun, with your smirking, your fat wallets, your ‘no such thing as society’ mantra.

Enjoy your time; but keep watching over your complacent shoulders. The pendulum swings.

[mushroom25]

//The pendulum swings.//

but not equally though. come 1950 and labour clung on to power by just 5 seats, which was not enough, given that the party was by that time deeply divided, pretty much along the division lines seen today. in the election of 1951 (called to try and increase the majority), labour were consigned to opposition and remained there for 13 years. the electorate has no stomach for hard socialism, be it called Bevanism, Bennism, Corbynism, whatever, and never have.

[ichkeria]

Hi there young wealthy Ken :-)

I’ll give it a listen with a bit of spare time now. It has to be better than reading all this ... :-)

[naomi24]

Allen, the Labour Party of today is a very different animal to that of yesteryear. Have you ever visited a country run as Corbyn and Co would like this country to be governed? If so, what did you find attractive about it?

[ichkeria]

Having now listened to this, I found it disappointingly short on laughs. I wonder if the OP was similarly disappointed?