The Future of the Labour Party

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spencer Aug 17, 2016 11:01:22
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Watching, but yup, cringefest. Vetted audience divided into blocks. Anti JC block seems to have been selected by being asked how loud they can go 'WHOOOO!!' Derbyshire, who I do not like, showed Corbyn a pic of Ant and Dec, who he did not recognise, and then she told him they were supporters. Then she asked him how many medals Wiggins had won, which he got wrong, as apparently he had in a tweet, and then she asked him if he did hid his tweets or did someone else. Obviously he is a Bad Person... doubltless Derbyshire is being fed stuff through that earpiece. Interesting to see what soundbites turn up on the Beebnews later. The 'undecided' audience section has just been asked, if they had made a view, to move to the pro or anti Corbyn block: they have overwhelmingly moved to pro JC.

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spencer Aug 17, 2016 13:31:51
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Turns out Ant and Dec support the Tories. Well done Victoria and chums. Oh yeah, Corbyn didn't know the current price of a first class stamp when asked. Bastard. At least the audience migration to Corbyn's side at the end was shown on the news.

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IanB Aug 17, 2016 13:59:23
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spencer wrote:
The 'undecided' audience section has just been asked, if they had made a view, to move to the pro or anti Corbyn block: they have overwhelmingly moved to pro JC.
People have decided that it is good to like people who seem real even if "real" means being a loud mouth bigot (Hopkins / Farage obvs) at one end of the scale or really good at cakes or cycling or science or playing ok-ish folkie singer songwriter ditties with a beard and red hair at the other. After years of unreal reality tv and completely unreal politics the idea of real people being popular is now popular. If you follow me. JC seems about as genuine as you get in someone with Party Leader as job title.

Cameron's last pop culture gaff, not being able to tell Villa from West Ham, was the apotheosis of that kind of thing. I would lay money that Gordon Brown didn't really like the Arctic whatsits either. Conversely I found the idea of Gideon going to see Public Enemy and the Beasties at Brixton oddly endearing. Now that's a story I actually do believe because the disconnect between what he seems to enjoy and what he does politically is already so pronounced.

For the record I send loads of letters and have no idea what the stamps cost. I buy a book of 10 and they have 1st printed on them. I guess I am un-electable.