Ed Miliband the Labour leader in 2015 had a broad range of policies that were not a million miles off of what Theresa May has in her SDP-Tory hybrid manifesto to bring onboard working class Labour voters.
An energy price cap here, a few modest spending increases there...
The press went after him as they have with every Labour leader forever (Except Blair) - Red Ed, mocking him for the way he ate, his late father being disgustingly attacked as a danger to the country and somehow this impacting on Miliband's standing himself. I also remember the Alex Salmond posters, not the ones portraying Ed in his pocket, but one in Broxtowe where he was shown as a burglar. He of course is nothing of the sort, and the advert for me crossed the line - however as the ASA can't regulate political advertising it could go through.
Of course Ed Miliband was emphatically NOT a danger to the country if he had attained power we'd have had no EU referendum, and Jeremy Corbyn would not be leader of the Labour party.
Anyway Ed was beaten by David and that was all history.
Fast forward to 2017 - Labour through its own incompetence now has a man who is threatening to do a left wing Donald Trump to the country, a tub thumping "For the Many not the Few" machine that has defied all political logic about how campaigns should be run, and like Trump certainly NOT playing by the established media rules. He doesn't use twitter too much himself, but his acolytes and followers do - and I have noticed that once someone succumbs to the Corbyn tendency doesn't give it up too easily. May has called an election that seems far tougher than it ought at the start, and the adoration for Corbyn amongst the young is palpable.
Moreover, he's enjoying the campaign - and I believe the Tory tools that are being thrown at him by their friends in the right wing press are simply not as effective as they should be. Jeremy Corbyn claims to be a man of peace, but he has sympathised far more readily with Britain's enemies than he has with our friends. He did give succour to the IRA, and his right hand man, John McDonnell's comments should make the whole package completely unelectable. Mo Mowlam he is NOT.
But there is a problem. The buckets of slime that were poured over Ed Miliband's head in 2015 are being chucked by the same news outlets again at Corbyn. It looks like the same monstering even though the two crimes they commit are very different - one couldn't quite eat a bacon sandwich correctly, the other finds Hezbollah a respectable organisation.
The right wing press just may have cried wolf one too many times, and perhaps the public are dismissing the warnings because of this.
Corbyn I believe will stay on even with defeat, particularly if Ed Miliband's vote total is increased (I think this will be the case now), and the movement will grow and grow. The redtops - who proclaimed our High Court judges "Enemies of the people" will have no effect on him going forward. In fact they just make his appeal greater.
An energy price cap here, a few modest spending increases there...
The press went after him as they have with every Labour leader forever (Except Blair) - Red Ed, mocking him for the way he ate, his late father being disgustingly attacked as a danger to the country and somehow this impacting on Miliband's standing himself. I also remember the Alex Salmond posters, not the ones portraying Ed in his pocket, but one in Broxtowe where he was shown as a burglar. He of course is nothing of the sort, and the advert for me crossed the line - however as the ASA can't regulate political advertising it could go through.
Of course Ed Miliband was emphatically NOT a danger to the country if he had attained power we'd have had no EU referendum, and Jeremy Corbyn would not be leader of the Labour party.
Anyway Ed was beaten by David and that was all history.
Fast forward to 2017 - Labour through its own incompetence now has a man who is threatening to do a left wing Donald Trump to the country, a tub thumping "For the Many not the Few" machine that has defied all political logic about how campaigns should be run, and like Trump certainly NOT playing by the established media rules. He doesn't use twitter too much himself, but his acolytes and followers do - and I have noticed that once someone succumbs to the Corbyn tendency doesn't give it up too easily. May has called an election that seems far tougher than it ought at the start, and the adoration for Corbyn amongst the young is palpable.
Moreover, he's enjoying the campaign - and I believe the Tory tools that are being thrown at him by their friends in the right wing press are simply not as effective as they should be. Jeremy Corbyn claims to be a man of peace, but he has sympathised far more readily with Britain's enemies than he has with our friends. He did give succour to the IRA, and his right hand man, John McDonnell's comments should make the whole package completely unelectable. Mo Mowlam he is NOT.
But there is a problem. The buckets of slime that were poured over Ed Miliband's head in 2015 are being chucked by the same news outlets again at Corbyn. It looks like the same monstering even though the two crimes they commit are very different - one couldn't quite eat a bacon sandwich correctly, the other finds Hezbollah a respectable organisation.
The right wing press just may have cried wolf one too many times, and perhaps the public are dismissing the warnings because of this.
Corbyn I believe will stay on even with defeat, particularly if Ed Miliband's vote total is increased (I think this will be the case now), and the movement will grow and grow. The redtops - who proclaimed our High Court judges "Enemies of the people" will have no effect on him going forward. In fact they just make his appeal greater.
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