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| Corbyn, the media and the estalishment. Some observations. | |
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| Topic Started: Sep 15 2015, 08:50 PM (812 Views) | |
| Tigger | Sep 15 2015, 08:50 PM Post #1 |
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They can't quite get their heads round Corbyn yet can they? I was listening to R4 on the way home from work this evening and was highly amused at what I heard, a pack of reporters tuned up at the TUC conference in Brighton and amazingly there was no buffet laid on for them! No spin doctors handing out copies of the speech Corbyn was about to deliver and no briefing of any kind, the reporter said that he and his mates ended up somewhere outside the conference centre standing in an area where the wheelie bins were kept! ![]() It got better, they actually had to go in and see him speak, this particular reporter glossed over the content of the speech and criticised the fact that Corbyn had not bothered to seek them out and warned that without them he'd not get his message across, this BBC reporter also snottily claimed that by avoiding the media, as opposed to addressing those you represent first, was a huge error as the BBC, C4, Sky and ITV "were not like the Sun or Mail" the rest of the piece was barely disguised self pity, and to cap it all we had a repeat performance by Norman Smith on the six-o-clock news! I'm enjoying this!
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| Tytoalba | Sep 17 2015, 09:13 AM Post #121 |
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Progress xcan be made backwards or forwards. He is there to ask questions not to give speeches, and it is likely that there will be point of order raised with the speaker if he continues. |
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| Tytoalba | Sep 17 2015, 09:17 AM Post #122 |
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I was in hospital yesterday for exploratory test, an one nurse said Corbyn was dreadful, the other said how stupid to put a vegan in charge of farming. Just an overheard conversation. Not exactly reaching out to the people . |
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| Pro Veritas | Sep 17 2015, 10:08 AM Post #123 |
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Any MP not willing to, at times, make an enemy of the corporate, neo-lib controlled press probably isn't fit to hold office. Keeping corporate media happy should be very, very, very damn far down the list of priorities for an MP. All The Best |
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| Tytoalba | Sep 17 2015, 10:22 AM Post #124 |
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That's just a political mantra. One must not assume that all businesses are unfriendly to ones own political aims. Tigger on here is a business man yet one can hardly suppose that he is unfriendly to , or unsupportive of the Labour party on the lines that Corbyn proposes.Running a country with its huge responsibilities should not be run on dogmatic political lines, it needs to be flexible, accommodating to business,\and of the working man, dealing flexibly with the moving times . Dogma. preconceived hatred, claims of divisions and claims of wrong doing, even class war fare for political reasons is destructive in itself. and serves no useful purpose. The The desire for a Marxist or communist state in Britain only has a very small following, and on those grounds alone Corbyn has little chance of success IMO. |
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| Steve K | Sep 17 2015, 12:17 PM Post #125 |
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The media today is suggesting that Corbyn's current favour to that racist Abbott is not disconnected from them once being an item. Whether that link is true or not, it has rather given a mental image I could have done without and questions about his judgement. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4559169.ece |
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| ACH1967 | Sep 17 2015, 12:29 PM Post #126 |
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| Pro Veritas | Sep 17 2015, 01:39 PM Post #127 |
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Nor did I suggest they were - in fact I didn't even mention businesses in general, just the media. Would you like to counter the points I did actually make? Oh, wait, was what that? You can't?! No surprise there then. All The Best |
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| Tytoalba | Sep 17 2015, 04:29 PM Post #128 |
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You are not in a position to select the ground or the subject to fight on. Its much wider and complex than that. |
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| Jessamy Bride | Sep 17 2015, 04:35 PM Post #129 |
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I thought the set up was more of an opportunity for Cameron to reply in well rehearsed sound bites. I would like to have seen him challenged. He had a much too easy time. |
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| Steve K | Sep 17 2015, 04:49 PM Post #130 |
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Much too easy. PMQs is all about the follow up question(s) to expose any gaps in the first response But your post has inspired a thought - watch this space (well actually an adjacent space) |
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| Cymru | Sep 17 2015, 08:17 PM Post #131 |
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And Cameron's sound bite responses are exactly what Corbyn was aiming for. |
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| Affa | Sep 17 2015, 09:04 PM Post #132 |
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| C-too | Sep 17 2015, 09:10 PM Post #133 |
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Unfortunately people have been fed Cameron type replies before and still voted for him. |
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