Corbyn and the Media

I've never seen the media (which let's face it are the Tory/Establishment media) villify anyone so mercilessly as they seem to have done with JC. If he really is as clueless or without a hope of getting in, why do they need to do that? It seems to me that the treatment dished out to this guy three days into his new post is in excess of that dished out to Foot, Kinnock or Miliband.

Sure he still has many questions to answer but the way the Tory pack have gone after him makes me want to see him succeed. As for not singing the National Anthem - whoopee do! I agree with him!

 

the governments media allies only vilify those who are a threat to their cosey existence.

 

Id say tho mate, anyone with half n ounce of common, know its the press/media that are full of lies.

 

the trouble is too many people believe everything they read in the papers

 

Obviously all the press in the UK are against him, weird isn't it?

 

I think they had a field day with Neil Kinnock to be fair

 

You got it right there

 

And your average thicko (of which there are many) will lap it up. A sad state of affairs.

 

They've really gone with it with Corbyn, but hopefully he can rise above it.

Miliband was absolutely destroyed by the media for 4 years, but tbh wasn't a charismatic or principled candidate anyway.

 

The difference between corbyn and milliband is this time the more the media have a go the more support he seems to be getting! People are getting on the bandwagon and I hope it continues and he can back it up with some viable policies that offer an alternative to the drivel were putting up with now!

 

not the Mirror obviously because they only publish the gospel

 

Being the leader of the opposition and one who holds relatively extreme views I'm not surprised that the press are filling a lot of column inches about him. Its worth pointing out that most of what I've read about him has been direct quotes and stories from his 'political' past that are relevant to his position now.

This site has matched any national newspaper with debate about him over the last few days.

 

That's the thing that I've found most fascinating - that his views are seen as relatively extreme here in the UK by a lot of people even inside his own party. Yet he's only as far left as the average Scandinavian social democrat. It seems that the political spectrum has been so squeezed into the centre that we now view anything outside this very narrow band as being on the fringes of normality.

 

That is a good point but like you say he's viewed as far left even by members of his own party. Most political commentators will tell you that elections are won from the centre or just off centre and this is why his own party are already divided. If people thought Milliband was left wing they haven't seen anything yet.

 

I never thought of Miliband being particularly left wing in the end. In fact, I never really had much idea what Miliband stood for, which I think was a lot of his problem - he always seemed to get shoved back into the centre ground, where he knew he'd have to be in order to win the last election, but he clearly wasn't comfortable there.

Personally, Corbyn is economically quite a long way left of where I stand. However, I don't think he's anywhere near as anti-business as the right wing gutter press are making out. Finland and Sweden are both countries with essentially socialist governments with a fantastic track record of supporting small business. Socially he's generally spot on, and that's where the appeal lies for a lot of people I think. His vision for a more equal, less divided Britain is as commendable as it appears to be completely genuine. Increasing opportunities for people whatever their background, reducing queues at food banks etc are things that nobody on any side of the political spectrum is likely to argue against as not being good things. Whether people think it's achievable in reality, well that's another matter entirely.

 

The problem with milliband wasn't what he said or stood for. It was that he came across a nothing but a weak wet blanket.

 

That definitely didn't help his cause. Along with his bacon sandwich eating ability.

 

Lol. Yeah he did look a bit of a drip in that photo

 

Big test tomorrow - first PM question time! Time to go on the attack - Trade union reform and working tax credit cuts so he has plenty of ammunition to go on

 

Nasty little country this, isn't it?