A victory for Jeremy Corbyn

UK Labour leadership election: Anti-austerity & anti-war MP Jeremy Corbyn wins landslide victory

RT,

12 September, 2015

The Islington North MP, Jeremy Corbyn, has been elected Labour party leader. The 66-year-old winner of one of the key races in recent times has been announced in London.

"Can I start by thanking everyone who took part in this democratic election," Corbyn said in a victory speech, calling the election a “huge democratic exercise” for millions of people

Corbyn, an admirer of Karl Marx, won 59.5 percent of the ballots cast, or 251,417 votes, in the leadership election, winning in the first round.

#Corbyn wins in all three voting categories. So much for all the hype about 'infiltration'.pic.twitter.com/XOuV2JcjwV

— Matt Wrack (@MattWrack) 12 сентября 2015

Corbyn pledged that the Labour party would become “more inclusive, more involved, and more democratic. It will shape the future for everyone,” he said.

He added: “Let us be a force for change in the world.”

“Poverty does not have to be inevitable. Things can, and they will, change,” he vowed.

"The Tories have used the economic crisis of 2008 to impose a terrible burden on the poorest people in this country," Corbyn told an audience of Labour members and supporters at a conference in London called to announce the leadership results Saturday.

59.5% is now officially the number of hope. Let's do this! #labourleadership

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) 12 сентября 2015

Given that David Cameron has hinted that he will not run for a third term as prime minister, Corbyn's rise has put the long race to succeed him as the next potential challenge.

"I am fed up with the social cleansing of London by this Tory government," he said of Cameron's Conservatives.

Imagine being Tony Blair, having devoted yourself so publicly & completely to telling your party to defeat Corbyn, then getting this result.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) 12 сентября 2015

“The speech Jeremy Corbyn made was wonderful,” Neil Clark, a British journalist and writer, told RT.

“It's a wonderful day for British democracy... Don't forget, over 400,000 people voted, it's the biggest party leadership election campaign in our history,” he added.

“What this campaign showed is a massive disconnect between the establishment elite who told us Corbyn couldn't win. First they tried to make fun of him, they’ve done it all the way through, they attacked him, it was a terrible smear campaign that went for the last two or three months, trying to link him to extremist people, and it all backfired because he won nearly 60 percent of the vote. I think it tells how out of touch these media gatekeepers are. The British media was overwhelmingly hostile to him. You can count on one hand the number of journalists who actually supported him in the British media,”Clark said.

Corbyn supporters gathering in Westminster to see their new leader pic.twitter.com/RV7w1eLcQN

— RT UK (@RTUKnews) 12 сентября 2015

Many fear that Corbyn's victory could potentially divide the party, however.“The Labour party members have spoken. They overwhelmingly – 60 percent - want Jeremy Corbyn to lead the party and take it a very different direction to what Tony Blair wanted them to go which was support for more illegal wars, more austerity, more privatization.”

“It's up to them to realize that the game is over, really, for their kind of policies,” Clark said, adding that “the ball is right now in the Blairites’ [camp].”
“Are they going to be good sports and accept the results or are they going to try to overthrow Jeremy Corbyn, try to topple him – well, let's hope that they do accept the result,” he said.

Thousands now marching through Hyde park after resounding Corbyn victory and holding refugees welcome banners pic.twitter.com/ayKfgowioj

— Laura Burdon-Manley (@LauraBM_RT) 12 сентября 2015

Numerous polls have put the Chippenham-born left-winger ahead of his rivals, Andy Burnham (the shadow health secretary), Yvette Cooper (shadow home secretary) and Liz Kendall (shadow minister for care and older people.)

Tom Watson has been elected as the new Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

Jeremy won decisively in every category of #labourleadership voter

— Diane Abbott (@HackneyAbbott) 12 сентября 2015

During his election campaign, Corbyn gained supporters from several of the UK’s largest trade unions and received the highest number of supporting nominations from Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs). Britain’s biggest union, Unite, with 1.4 million members, backed Corbyn in early July, citing his anti-war and anti-austerity policies as the main reasons for throwing their weight behind the candidate. Corbyn called for a new “national maximum wage”  of £10 an hour to end what he described as a “gross inequality” in Britain, speaking to the Financial Times last month.

Almost 1 in 100 people in the UK voted in the #LabourLeadership election. This growth in membership is something to be proud of.

— George Aylett (@GeorgeAylett) 12 сентября 2015

Corbyn has also pledged to renationalise Britain's railways and bring energy companies into public ownership if he became prime minister. He is in fact the public’s favorite Labour candidate to be the next Prime Minister, second only among all candidates, to Boris Johnson.

At his final rally, Corbyn told supporters he was determined to win back those who do not vote at general elections.

“Fundamentally many people are turned off by a political process when the major parties are not saying anything different enough about how we run the economy, and totally turned off by a style of politics which seems to rely on the levels of clubhouse theatrical abuse that you can throw across at each other in parliament and across the airwaves,” the Guardian reported on Friday.

It's been an inspiring campaign - bringing people together & providing an alternative. Last night's rally was 99th https://t.co/UzkmcIozEc

— Jeremy Corbyn MP (@jeremycorbyn) 11 сентября 2015

Corbyn, who is a member of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, Amnesty International, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and a founder of the Stop the War Coalition against “unjust wars,” has had a number of opponents, with a “Stop Corbyn” campaign accusing the politician of anti-Semitism, among other things. 

READ MORE: #LabourLeadership: Can Corbyn prove the bookies right?

Prominent Labour MPs and former ministers have publicly warned voters against choosing the bearded left-winger, including former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, former Foreign Secretary David Miliband, former Labour leader Neil Kinnock and Jon Cruddas MP. Corbyn faces mass resignations with at least a dozen shadow cabinet ministers refusing to serve under him.

Jeremy Corbyn’s Victory Highlights the Power BTL

Off-Guardian,

12 September, 2015

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 moderatorswho 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.


These are the hysterical headlines from the Daily Mail. People voted for Corbyn anyhow.

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