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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Sat Sep 24, 2016, 01:13 AM Sep 2016

Jeremy Corbyn gets a street choir tribute at the end of the Labour leadership campaign



If you can't quite make out what the vocal group(an ensemble called "Some Voices Sing&quot is singing, it's the chorus of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", with slightly altered lyrics that address the determination of the anti-Corbyn party bureaucracy's determination to stop as many Corbyn supporters from voting in the leadership contest(the estimates are that 130,000 people who were dues-paying party members or party supporters(who gained eligibility to vote by paying a smaller fee than than full members were either barred from voting or expelled from the party outright, sometimes just for calling opponents of Corbyn's leadership "Blairites" on their Facebook pages-by contrast, no one was denied a ballot for calling Corbyn supporters "Trots" or "thugs"-things virtually no Corbyn supporters actually were-and in one infamous case simply for posting that she liked the Foo Fighters)




"Ain't no mountain high enough,
Ain't no valley low enough,
Ain't no river wide enough,
To keep me from voting for you babe".



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Jeremy Corbyn gets a street choir tribute at the end of the Labour leadership campaign (Original Post) Ken Burch Sep 2016 OP
Corbyn will survive, but Labour will collapse Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2016 #1
Labour can't win if it drives Corbyn's supporters away. Ken Burch Sep 2016 #2
 

Sen. Walter Sobchak

(8,692 posts)
1. Corbyn will survive, but Labour will collapse
Sat Sep 24, 2016, 05:00 AM
Sep 2016

Because of the Brexit debacle an election could come at any time, May is going to be squeezed hard by the Brexit morons in her own party who want Brexit at any cost. If they get too rambunctious, she will call an election.

Labour needs to be ready for that election and not indulging Corbyn and his merry band of idiots.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
2. Labour can't win if it drives Corbyn's supporters away.
Sat Sep 24, 2016, 12:39 PM
Sep 2016

The opponents of Corbyn within the party have no positive agenda. They simply wanted to keep the party Blairite forever, and they made no positive case for the merits of THEIR leadership candidate, who had been a lobbyist for Pfizer in its efforts to further privatize the National Health Service.

The people won.

BTW, Corbyn even won a sizeable majority among paid party members, increasing his margin there.

The anti-Corbynites have an obligation to stop trying to remove the man.

Jeremy is the only political leader the young people of Britain trust, and the only one anyone in the UK sees as an honest person.

He's earned a chance.

And it's been shown over and over that it wasn't Jeremy's fault that Leave won. Leave won because the Remain campaign didn't make any real commitment to reducing the economic misery that EU membership has imposed in the North of England(the area where Leave swept the board). What the anti-Corbynites are really mad about is that Jeremy wouldn't share a podium with the Conservative Party prime minister during the referendum...but he had to refuse to do that, because you can't share a podium with Tories in one campaign and then ever credibly campaign against them later.

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