Quote:Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership election. You probably heard. He wasn't supposed to win he wasn't even supposed to run but he did it. Not only did he win it, but he won it with the largest party mandate in the history of British politics. That's quite an achievement considering the entire main-stream media had turned their collective fire-power against him.

When they weren't mis-quoting him to criticise his "plans", they were making fun of his clothes or accusing him of anti-semitism by proxy. He was unelectable, they said. He was old fashioned, they said. He was a security risk. And he won. He won at a canter.

Because, nowadays, when the media print a dishonest opinion piece, the public have an immediate right of reply. When they misquote a public figure, the public figure can tweet a correction instantly. When they lie about a crime scene or protest or war crime, fifty eye witnesses can upload cell-phone videos to youtube and everyone can see with their own eyes what really happened.

The old saying goes that a lie goes halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on and that used to be true. But only because the lie was given a private jet, while the truth had to walk. The internet has rather evened the odds in that regard.

Nowhere is this new world more apparent than in the coverage of Jeremy Corbyn. When Michael White writes absurd, nonsensical swipes at Corbyn in the place of political comment a non-profit alternate media outlet can knock up a response and upload it, for free, in a matter of hours. When George Osborne is quoted as calling Corbyn a "security risk" for being anti-Trident, there are thousands of voices waiting to shout "Rubbish!" in the comments section. Thousands of people ready to point out Osborne's own agenda, serving his rich friends in the arms industry and aiding American foreign policy.

I doubt when newspapers and magazines opened up this feature they ever thought it could be used to so totally undercut their authority. Power structures are always slow to adapt, always sure they have everything under control. But, below the line, they control nothing. Which is why they so desperately want an excuse to shut it all down. To go back to The Guardian which, to an analyst of modern Orwellian media, is the gift that keeps on giving. The attacks on BTL commentary have been three-fold:

1. Simply closing the comments down. Long standing policy, especially with regards to Israel. If any story that contradicts the media narrative is reported it will be closed for comments any attempt to comment on the story in other, related articles will be removed as it is "off topic".

2. Discrediting dissenting voices. Most notably done with Russian stories. Pompous nonsense articles that describe ficticious "troll houses", interviews with moderators who know there are "Putinbots" working shifts to try and discredit Shaun Walker and Luke Harding. As if that's something that's difficult to accomplish. Pathetic attempts, designed to propagate the idea there is a public consensus on all things Russian, and anybody straying from it is an agent of the enemy. Paranoid. Stupid. Ineffective.

3. Attacks on the very idea of comments themselves. You see, free speech is very upsetting because sometimes people say things that aren't true, or are true but are also rude. People have the right to not be offended, and as such comments on the internet are actually harmful to a civilised society. They have a nice batch of gullible, navel-gazing idiots for this…from both sides of the Atlantic.

For several years now the MSM have suffered defeat after defeat with regards to setting a popular narrative. They failed, abysmally, to set up the pro-Syria war agenda in 2013. They failed time after time to establish the supposed "Russian invasion of Ukraine". And they failed, catastrophically, to assassinate the character of Jeremy Corbyn by portraying him as some kind of dangerous Marxist lunatic. Simply put, the Media Machine doesn't work anymore.

Jeremy Corbyn's victory in the leadership election isn't just a triumph for the man over the hideous Blairite mannequins he was running against, but a triumph for the people over a media establishment that has lied to us for generations.

David Guyatt Wrote:The seven hideous Blairites who refuse to serve Corbyn him should just fuck off, leave the Party and set up their own Tory Lite Party and wither into obscurity for evermore.

I think great numbers of British are now so pissed off with traditional politicians and their liberal economics they represent as the only available choice, that the 60% first round win by Corbyn could be putting the wind up the whole stinking pile of them.

I like Corbyn. He stand on NATO's expansion east is exactly right. His position on banks and banking is right on the nail. His plans for the energy sector must be incredibly popular. In short he has a wide popularity and that is what will make him hated by the 1% and their political valets.

I have to say that come 2020 I might be convinced to break a self imposed stricture that I've held for the past 40 years. I might vote in a General Election.

Quote:Senior names set to leave the frontbench include Mrs Balls, Howard Kendall, Tristram Runt and Rachel Peeves, who have all quit in protest. Others who resigned include John Leslie, Emma Strobe-Reynolds, Jamie Tweed, Vernon Croaker, and Sir Herbert Tooth. Heading to the backbenches are Mustapha Shufti, Dan Dan and Stella Nobody, while Chukup Ulunch challenged the new leader to sack him.

David Guyatt Wrote:I have to say that come 2020 I might be convinced to break a self imposed stricture that I've held for the past 40 years. I might vote in a General Election.

Paul Rigby Wrote:

David Guyatt Wrote:The seven hideous Blairites who refuse to serve Corbyn him should just fuck off, leave the Party and set up their own Tory Lite Party and wither into obscurity for evermore.

From the Blackshirt on Sunday, wrenching news:

Is that your new shadow cabinet, Jeremy? New Labour leader Corbyn sends his deputy Tom Watson to Andrew Marr show while he poses with girls in a park after eleven frontbenchers quit

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3232625/Out-old-new-Corbyn-starts-assembling-hardleft-team-frontbenchers-quit-splits-emerge-new-deputy-Tom-Watson-challenges-Nato-Trident.html


How will the nation survive this loss?

Tom Watson, it appears, is the Atlanticists' great white hope.

Paul Rigby Wrote:

David Guyatt Wrote:The seven hideous Blairites who refuse to serve Corbyn him should just fuck off, leave the Party and set up their own Tory Lite Party and wither into obscurity for evermore.

I think great numbers of British are now so pissed off with traditional politicians and their liberal economics they represent as the only available choice, that the 60% first round win by Corbyn could be putting the wind up the whole stinking pile of them.

I like Corbyn. He stand on NATO's expansion east is exactly right. His position on banks and banking is right on the nail. His plans for the energy sector must be incredibly popular. In short he has a wide popularity and that is what will make him hated by the 1% and their political valets.

I have to say that come 2020 I might be convinced to break a self imposed stricture that I've held for the past 40 years. I might vote in a General Election.

From the Blackshirt on Sunday, wrenching news:

Is that your new shadow cabinet, Jeremy? New Labour leader Corbyn sends his deputy Tom Watson to Andrew Marr show while he poses with girls in a park after eleven frontbenchers quit

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3232625/Out-old-new-Corbyn-starts-assembling-hardleft-team-frontbenchers-quit-splits-emerge-new-deputy-Tom-Watson-challenges-Nato-Trident.html

Quote:Senior names set to leave the frontbench include Mrs Balls, Howard Kendall, Tristram Runt and Rachel Peeves, who have all quit in protest. Others who resigned include John Leslie, Emma Strobe-Reynolds, Jamie Tweed, Vernon Croaker, and Sir Herbert Tooth. Heading to the backbenches are Mustapha Shufti, Dan Dan and Stella Nobody, while Chukup Ulunch challenged the new leader to sack him.

How will the nation survive this loss?

Tom Watson, it appears, is the Atlanticists' great white hope.

Magda Hassan Wrote:

David Guyatt Wrote:I have to say that come 2020 I might be convinced to break a self imposed stricture that I've held for the past 40 years. I might vote in a General Election.

Do it David! If you don't do it for you do it for me as I can't vote there not being a resident and that. We need a Corbyn victory here as much as you do there! First time in 30 years I have been excited about UK politics. ::::::runaround::