The British peasants are revolting!
Nothing can ruin a decent person's day faster than when a lowly commoner starts acting like he deserves to be treated as a human being. Such a bother!
The neoliberal politicians that dominate Britain's Labour Party keep trying to lead their membership, but for some strange reason the membership refuses to follow, and nothing represent this betrayal of the peasants better than Jeremy Corbyn.
Jeremy Corbyn's landslide victory - the largest mandate ever won by a party leader - will at least come as no suprise to him...
No leader in the party's 115-year history has ever been elected with so little support from MPs. Corbyn, the most left-wing figure to hold the post, won the public backing of just 14 (6 per cent) of his colleagues.
Labour MPs tried to explain how Corbyn would destroy the party, and they were right. If your definition of "destroy" means a huge surge in membership.
The Tories tried to help educate the commoners as well.
Cameron even pointed out that Corbyn was a traitor..
“You should not be walking through the lobbies with Jeremy Corbyn and a bunch of terrorist sympathisers,” the prime minister reportedly told the committee.
It wasn't just the Tories. The tabloids helped in their own way.
Since the membership wouldn't listen to their political Lords and Masters, maybe they would listen to their Betters in journalism. What happened was almost unprecedented in British history.
The media researchers found that in 52 per cent of articles about the Labour leader, his own views were not included – while in a further 22 per cent they were “present but taken out of context” or otherwise distorted.
In just 15 per cent of 812 articles analysed, Mr Corbyn’s views were present but challenged, and in only 11 per cent were they present without alteration.
“Our analysis shows that Corbyn was thoroughly delegitimised as a political actor from the moment he became a prominent candidate and even more so after he was elected as party leader,” Dr Bart Cammaerts, the project director concluded.
“These results relating to sources and ‘voice’ are evidently troublesome from a democratic perspective.
Then came Brexit and the MPs carefully planned coup attempt. Corbyn lost a no-confidence vote badly.
Labour MPs do not just want to oust a leader with massive support among party members. They have hamstrung him from the outset so that he could not lead the political revolution members elected him to begin. And now he is being made to pay the price because he privately backs a position that, as the referendum has just shown, has majority support.
The peasants just won't listen to reason. They must be shown that this is all being done for their own good. Corbyn is a dangerous radical that must be removed.
So how did the lowly workers respond to their leaders coup attempt?
The Labour Party has gained at least 100,000 new members in the space of just 10 days, and most are believed to be supporters of Jeremy Corbyn.
The party's membership has surpassed half a million for the first time since its records began, according to the Huffington Post.
The report adds that 80% of the new members who disclosed their motive for signing up cited their support for Corbyn.
That's insane. It's almost as if the peasants don't believe all the slanderous news articles and neoliberal politicians.
It's so frustrating when the Great Unwashed don't listen to reason. They must suffer for their own good. Everyone knows that.
Well, if we've learned anything from the United States, it's that the centrist aristocrats of the "working class party" don't have to tolerate the popular opinion of the workers.
It is well-known that the Parliamentary Labour Party tried to keep Corbyn off the leadership ballot after a leadership challenge emerged this month, knowing he would likely win. In closing the ‘loopholes’ which allowed so many registered supporters to vote for Corbyn last year, the NEC has also effectively out-priced those who wish to join as new members or supporters to vote for the leader of the Labour Party: supposedly the party of the working people.
Good thinking. Just create a monetary barrier against all those commoners who think they have a say in the Labour Party.
Well, at least that was the idea.
Jeremy Corbyn’s hopes of holding on to his job were boosted after more than 183,000 people paid £25 this week to become registered supporters in order to vote in the party’s leadership election.
To put this into perspective, those 183,541 that registered in just 48 hours, is greater than the number of all registered Labour Party members or Torie members in 2014.
In other words, it's a political seismic shift in British politics.
If I didn't know better, I would think that Britain's working class doesn't like or trust their wealthy and powerful Masters.
In fact, their recent measurable actions, both at the ballot box and in membership dues could be interpreted as a Big FU.
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This is 60% a redo
But I had some good stuff that was directly related, so I just added it in.
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Thanks, gjohnsit! Damn, I love those peasants!
Our motherlanders are doing us proud! I've got to find a redcoat to wear in tribute!
Why do you think Trump is ...
Trump is doing so ridiculously well?
The Americans, too, are tired of being led by Ivy League (=Oxbridge) elitists who think that they know what the lower classes should want.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
One interesting difference:
American Ivy League elitists are primarily lawyers.
Oxbridge graduates mainly got Firsts in Greats (Greek and Latin) or PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics).
Mind you, one might have [sniff] the occasional graduate from Loughboury who has managed to get a Third in some mechanical discipline.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
The French have the same problem with graduates
of the Higher Ecoles, or whatever they call them. They dominate government also.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
The "énarques" (graduates of the ENA) ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_nationale_d%27administration
Either graduates of the
Ecole Nationale d'Administration, or indeed, any of the other "Grandes Ecoles".
A degree from Universite de Lyon would not [sniff] "cut the mustard".
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
"Yes they are"
(Charles I, c. 1637, just before going in for another portrait by van Dyck.)
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Great!
I hope Corbyn is a dangerous radical! Dangerous to the banksters and corporate power structure.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
That's what a Democratic Party looks like
It's, you know, democratic!
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg