Corbynmania
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 06/23/2017 - 4:21pm
When is a 68-year old socialist politician so cool with the kids that he upstages even the most popular bands?
When his name is JE-REM-Y COR-BYN.
The chorus started at 10pm on Thursday in the dark sweaty depths of the Glastonbury silent disco. Just a low rumbling at first, it built into a loud roar with hundreds of festivalgoers singing, at the tops of their voices: “OH ... JE-REM-Y COR-BYN.”
Glastonbury this year may boast appearances from the biggest acts in the world, Ed Sheeran and Radiohead among them, but judging by the T-shirts, flags and impromptu musical outbursts, the man of the hour is the Labour party’s 68-year-old leader...
Heather Cuss, 33, from south London, said: “There’s always a community atmosphere at Glastonbury but this year it’s definitely all about Jezza. We’ve seen musicians playing with Corbyn necklaces and everywhere you walk you hear people break out into Jeremy Corbyn chants. Even bands from abroad have been giving him a shout out as they’ve clearly heard everyone going, ‘Jeremy Corbyn, Jeremy Corbyn,’ and they’re joining in.”
In the dance area Shangri-La on Thursday, the New York brass band were leading the crowds in the ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn’ chant and the giant sand sculpture near the park stage was of Corbyn riding on the back of a fox and chasing Theresa May through fields of wheat.
The JE-REM-Y COR-BYN chant (done to "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes) is quite likely the most popular song in Britain today.
Don't believe me?
There is plenty of other videos, but you get the idea.
Corbyn has become so popular that his celebrity status has rubbed off onto his shadow cabinet.
Former shadow chancellor Ed Balls, enjoying his first Glastonbury, was stopped for selfies every five minutes as he walked around Shangri-La and was met with shrieks of delight and songs everywhere he went, to the bemusement of his wife, Yvette Cooper, who hasn’t been to Glastonbury for 30 years.
Andrew Myors, 30, and Matt Foncette, 32, said they had been among those singing the Corbyn when one of the DJs played The White Stripes’ track Seven Nation Army – the backing music for the chant – and the whole field erupted into song.
No amount of money can buy publicity like this.
As you might imagine, all this good publicity is showing up in the polls.
As a new poll finds today, the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn becoming the next prime minister of Great Britain is now very much a real one and it's a prospect Tory MPs are all too aware of.
The YouGov poll for the Times finds that, for the first time ever, the British people now believe Jeremy Corbyn would make a better prime minister than Theresa May.
35% say that the Labour leader would make the "best PM" as opposed to 34% who pick May.
It is a remarkable turnaround for Corbyn, given that at the start of the election campaign May had a 39% lead over Corbyn on who would make the best PM.
It is also the first time since that a leader of the Labour party has taken a lead on this measure since 2007, when Gordon Brown first became prime minister.
Labour has also pulled ahead.
Meanwhile, the Tories have still failed to form a coalition with the D.U.P.
Talks between the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Theresa May reportedly became so tense the Northern Irish party refused to answer the phone to the Prime Minister’s advisers for 36 hours.
The DUP has demanded £2bn investment in health and infrastructure in Northern Ireland, with the party warning it cannot not be “taken for granted”.
Comments
it's the song in my head
for the rest of the day!
I am so happy for Great Britain.
They have a real chance to turn things around for a better world.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Glastonbury song
And it increases the possibility of it happening here, too!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
I am a pessimist on this...
And I freely admit it.
I've seen too many great hopes smashed down by the deep state.
Glad the people are behind him, but to me this feels like a race to try to get him safe before they either get their claws or their bullets into him.
Or they just start rigging the election in the UK as well, and claiming the Russian's did it. (These assholes are nothing if not predictable. )
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
@detroitmechworks There will be something
That said, there certainly will be a response.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
The DUP has demanded £2bn
The DUP has demanded £2bn investment in health and infrastructure in Northern Ireland, with the party warning it cannot not be “taken for granted”.
"And say you're sorry for those damned Good Friday accords, too!"
I'm not against Protestants generally, but these people are assholes.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
They may be extreme in some of their views
But they want a soft border between Norn Iron, and the Republic. They know full well that Theresa May is a Zombie PM. Everyone knows it. The EU especially.
The Conservatives have nothing to offer to anyone. Thanks to her inane call for a snap election.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
nothing to offer
That was true before the snap election, much less now!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
@Bollox Ref Hmm. Does that mean DUP
I can see why they'd want to get something up front because May is, um, politically about as good as Hillary. I'm not even talking about policy or morality. She doesn't seem to know how to do the part of politics that has to do with the little people. And in the British system, that still counts for more than it does here (though even here, even when presented with a devil's choice, the people will still allow themselves an extended middle finger to the indifferent elites).
Haven't been talking about Grenfell much because it's one of those things that I only allow myself to think about in small bits, because it's too awful, but her response there was unbelievably bad (politically).
As for DUP, I have long been angry at Ian Paisley and his faction, and perhaps I judged them too quickly, and based on actions long past. But while I'm not happy with either of the sides of that war, at least Sinn Fein and the IRA had a point to make. It was the actions that they took on behalf of that point that I took exception to; even if you're a revolutionary army, you need to be careful not to become a bunch of shitty bullies instead. Any armed group has to be careful of that. I think the IRA took a lot of wrong turns. On the other hand, they could justly criticize me for armchair quarterbacking while I'm well out of the line of fire and a dumb Yank to boot. But I can't help but feel that if some of your own people are afraid of you, you are doing something wrong.
In contrast, Paisley and his guys--well, what were they on about, really? We've lived here for long enough, dammit, this place is ours? So we colonized you, suck it up?
And that stuff about deliberately marching in orange through Catholic neighborhoods is really shit. If you must celebrate yourselves, why not celebrate with the people who identify with you? When the celebration of yourselves and your history involves basically taunting people who aren't you and (seemingly) hoping for a fight, what exactly are you celebrating?
Just my thoughts. Feel free to tell me I'm full of shit, since this is a country and at least one culture, if not two, that is not my own.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I'd like to be the Blairites' Tums supplier
Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.
Here's hoping....
At least they got their guy in.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Watching at BBC World News
.... while reading my evening c99, and I look up to "the telly". What do I see?
Oh, Jer-e-my Cor-byn!
he's everywhere......
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Hope!
My first comment here! It had to be for gjohnsit! I've been a little obsessed with UK politics the last few weeks. Emotional deja vu with Bernie vs. Hillary, but they may still have a chance to get it right. Corbyn as PM with a majority has become a real possibility in the near future. Very exciting! A new guilty pleasure is the comments section at the Guardian. People with great vocabularies insulting each other, hilarious!
@Preston S hello and welcome and
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Corbyn Dallas
and the fifth element. VS Theresa May ZOrg.
My goodness. I pray that the Brits have
better luck than we did with our 'Hopey-Changey' Peace Prize Transformational new leader.
And if he turns out to be the real deal watch how soon the Tory's start in with the obstructionism and lies.
As for me, I hope his miracle rise continues and grows.
And I bet old Maggie has spun her way to China by now.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
@Amanda Matthews I think he's the real
For one thing, there's too many Blairites still in that party. Honestly, I think they should be removed, but Corbyn can hardly say so. I'm not sure how it works over there, but if I had an electoral system that wasn't entirely fraudulent, the "primary the incumbents" strategy wouldn't be a bad one. Don't know if it works the same in Britain. Do you have to keep Labour incumbents when they're shit? If they refuse to vote the right way, can you pull party support from them?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I'm not all the smart when it comes to how that
Country's political system works myself so I'm not sure if they can purge 'traitors' to the party or not. And I worry too.
This will be interesting.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Just adding this as a footnote to the videos
from the White Stripes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Nation_Army