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VIDEO: thousands across UK flock to hear Corbyn speak, ignored by MSM

While May dodges questions and makes limp speeches to tiny pre-selected audiences, Corbyn’s campaign is attracting large crowds all over the country. The news cameras are there, the journalists follow along, but very little to nothing of the size and enthusiasm of Corbyn’s rallies makes it onto the nightly news in the UK








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Categories: Media Criticism, UK
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Birdy
Birdy
May 24, 2017 9:51 PM
stuartbramhall
stuartbramhall
May 22, 2017 9:16 PM

Reblogged this on The Most Revolutionary Act and commented:
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Britain’s Bernie Sanders. I wonder if the UK is as good at vote rigging as the US – I’m sure the CIA will be happy to help them out.

Joe Hill
Joe Hill
May 26, 2017 10:48 PM
Reply to  stuartbramhall

You mean “happily helping them out” as in at his moment.

summitflyer
summitflyer
May 22, 2017 4:32 PM

Good luck to Jeremy , he certainly would be a breath of fresh air for the UK .Looking back there has been an appalling bunch of way too conservative people /warmongers running the UK. Watching from North America , I hope to see Jerymy Corbyn as Britain’s new Prime Minister .

Catherine
Catherine
May 22, 2017 4:31 PM

I have a tricky decision. I am a Corbyn supporter. However, I live in North Norfolk constituency where Norman Lamb Lib Dems has been sitting MP for past decade and Labour receive a tiny proportion of the overall vote. UKIP are not standing, to make way for the Tories (to unseat Lamb). If I vote Labour, it will be, realistically, one more vote for the Tories. Tis whether to follow my heart or to make the pragmatic choice.

writerroddis
writerroddis
May 24, 2017 12:53 AM
Reply to  Catherine

Hi Catherine. FWIW, in these circs I’d (b) vote Lamb; (a) find the nearest Labour marginal and offer to canvas.

writerroddis
writerroddis
May 24, 2017 12:58 AM
Reply to  writerroddis

Find your nearest Labour marginal <a href="https://www.mynearestmarginal.com/&quot; target="_blank"here

writerroddis
writerroddis
May 24, 2017 1:04 AM
Reply to  writerroddis

here!
(Else I give up, never to post another URL as long as I live.)

Catherine
Catherine
May 24, 2017 11:13 AM
Reply to  writerroddis

Hi writerroddis
Thankyou for your thoughts. It helps to open up to a wider discussion. And canvassing elsewhere is a good option. Your link (eventually!) shows Clive Lewis in Norwich.

mans048
mans048
May 25, 2017 9:57 AM
Reply to  Catherine

Look up vote swapping. Its perfectly legal and is a way to make sure your vote can count in these circumstances. (https://www.swapmyvote.uk/)

Michael Leigh
Michael Leigh
May 28, 2017 6:56 PM
Reply to  Catherine

May I suggest CATHERINE that you should vote Labour in your constituency electoral voting process because the LIB-DEMS are likely to be losing overall their share of the national electoral choice, quite radically given the failure of their former partnership with the forever disgraced Tory’s!
And your support for the Labour Party now could be more significant for Labour’s future than you can currently perceive.

paulcarline
paulcarline
May 22, 2017 12:15 PM

Good news. After Blair’s lies on Iraq and the continued absence of an apology for the war that killed millions, I swore I would never vote Labour again. I’m not a natural Labour supporter. But the need to stop the appalling May in her tracks overrides that vow. My concern is that if polls were to show a close race before the vote there would almost certainly be a rigged vote. The BBC should be forced to commit to carrying out exit polls and whatever other necessary measures should be taken to expose and thwart any attempt to steal the election.
Living in Scotland makes any decision on which party to support even more fraught. Voting Labour in the only Westminster constituency held by a Tory (and a pretty unimpressive one at that) doesn’t make any sense. A vote for the SNP does seem to make sense in terms of an attempt to get rid of the Tory incumbent – and as a vote for independence/remaining in the EU – though I have no particular trust in the party, which seems to me to be just another “middle way”, Blairite, friendly to big business and finance (i.e. in practice neo-liberal), pseudo-populist party – though with some good policies.