Chants Would Be A Fine Thing

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The irresistible spread of ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn‘ to the chorus of Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes.

FIGHT!

How The Labour Chant Started (The Guardian)

Meanwhile: Labour ‘gains 150,000 new members’ as Jeremy Corbyn prepares for new election battle (Independent.co.uk)

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34 thoughts on “Chants Would Be A Fine Thing

  1. RuilleBuille

    I used to be a Guardian reader until their editor gave up Sarah Tisdall to save himself from going to prison. Haven’t touched it since and am not surprised at it’s anti-Corbyn view.

  2. Vote Rep #1

    Maybe I’m wrong but I thought that Labour doing well was more down to people really not liking the way the Tories and May were heading then Labour and Corbyn being that popular. The way some people are talking, you’d swear that Labour actually won the election.

    1. bisted

      …well spotted…Labour didn’t win the election but theTories lost it…same way as the blueshirts lost the last election here…both Tories and FG have to rely on others to hang onto their semblance of power…

    2. MoyestWithExcitement

      “Maybe I’m wrong”

      You’re wrong. Probably.

      They got 40% of the vote. Labour haven’t done that since the 70s.
      They increased their share of the vote by over 10% from the last election. Labour haven’t done that since the 40s.
      64% of 18 to 24 year olds voted for them.
      50% of 35 to 44 year olds voted for them compared to 30% voting Tory.

      “but I thought that Labour doing well was more down to people really not liking the way the Tories and May were heading”

      People seemed to be liking it fine for months. The Tories had a 20 point lead 8 weeks ago. Then people got to actually hear Corbyn talk and read his manifesto.

        1. Bertie "the inexplicable pleasure" Blenkinsop

          88.2% of statistics are made up on the spot… (Vic Reeves)

    3. jungleman

      It is undeniably a victory for Corbyn as the media and half his own party were working feverishly against him.

      1. Sheik Yahbouti

        You are wrong Fergus postman ( I actually know a Fergus postman, for real) could do without that, TBH

  3. Zaccone

    The Guardian lost its left wing credentials a long time ago. Their editorial policy is to care far more about social justice virtue signalling issues for the bourgeois middle classes than actual left wing economics that would benefit the working class.

    1. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

      Yup. That’s why I like it, frankly. It makes me feel better about myself. I have liberal leanings but am very ignorant where economics are concerned.
      And a lot of other stuff, to be honest. I tend to agree with what I read in the Guardian out of intellectual laziness.

      1. Gabby

        Read the Pyongyang Daily Worker. The Daily Express is better for horse racing tips however.

    2. Hawkeyed

      Do you think free tuition fees and fallout from Brexit will benefit the working class?

    1. nellyb

      “But it made a mockery of itself yesterday when it emerged that civil servants still get a day off to celebrate the King’s birthday. Yes, the King of England’s birthday. And to make matters worse, they are entitled to a second day off to mark the wonders of the British Empire.”
      “Almost 100 years after Ireland won independence from British rule, it emerged that the two holidays have been retained as “privilege days” by civil servants in addition to their annual leave of between 20 and 31 days.”
      – but it would be OK if british public service had to take Michael Collins b-day off. I doubt they’ll be allowed.

  4. shitferbrains

    A complete and utter fraud whose Islington constituents are no better off from his 40 years in Parliament than the first day he took his seat.

      1. shitferbrains

        And they also re-elected Diane Abbott – she of the mysterious illness which prevented her from being able to count – for the same reason ; a hatred of the Tories which overrules anything else. The Labour manifesto is/was economic garbage which had an emotional appeal to youngsters. Nationalise the railways ? The last time the railways were nationalised the windows were raised and lowered with a leather strap and there was a sign asking you not to put your head out because of the danger of flying embers. An 18 year-old thinks that the flying embers are a band. And then there’s college fees. Not only will Corbyn have to find the money to replace them, he’d have to also make up the deficit of millions that uni’s received in EU grants, now gone up the swanee with Brexit , which the devious old fraud was not-so-secretely in favour of. He’s another hopey-changey fraud like Obama who promised the sun moon and stars but who produced precious little.

      1. shitferbrains

        No it’s not. Only a small section of Islington has been gentrified.

        Facts. ( sorry )

        Islington had one of the highest child poverty rates in London (38%).
        Islington had one of the highest rates of out of work benefit recipients (12.2%), which may partly be explained by a high proportion of residents with a disability (13%).
        A low proportion of residents in Islington were low paid (12%) and as were a low proportion of jobs (11%) compared to the rest of London.
        In addition, only a small proportion of private renters were claiming housing benefit (12%). Taken together with the previous bullet points, this suggests that the London-wide story of substantial and growing in-work poverty and poverty in the private rented sector is less applicable to Islington.
        Under-attainment at GCSE level among pupils receiving free school meals was the third lowestt of London boroughs (45% lacked 5 A*-C GCSEs or equivalent), but the proportion of 19 year olds lacking qualifications was the fifth highest (43% lacked a Level 3 qualification).

        http://www.londonspovertyprofile.org.uk/indicators/boroughs/islington/

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