[Crabcakes]

But...but... they LOVED him in 2017 before the establishment and the MSM got scared of him.

The absolute lack of awareness in the Jez fanclub that loads of people singing ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn!” Does not directly translate 1:1 to people who’d be willing to sit through a deep dive paranoia- and conspiracy-riddled documentary and then immediately sign up to be card-carrying hardcore socialists bewilders me.

Most of them were having a laugh or taking the piss. They’re at a music festival, not some lecture series about socialism in Patagonian miners.

[Andy McDandy]

Also, at the time he was Labour party leader and de facto leader of the opposition to the Tories (and by extension Brexit). Had things been different they'd have been singing "Oooh Yvette Cooper".

[Tubby Isaacs]

How many of that crowd knew he was one of the biggest Kippers about?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

A lying fucking kipper at that.

[Tubby Isaacs]

McDonnell calling for price controls and something called "excess profits tax". While apparently thinking we're in the Euro.

One of his wide men, Simon Wren-Lewis, called him out for wishful thinking today on interest rates too.

[Andy McDandy]

Ask him what 2+2 equals, what's the capital of France, who was the best James Bond, and his answer to all 3 would be "tax the corporations".

Not saying it's not justified in the right circumstances, but he's a bit of a stuck record.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Even Sunak did a windfall tax but you have to define them clearly. You can't just look at profit margins rising and slap an extra tax on.

[Andy McDandy]

Not joking here, Jez has (with Len McCluskey) published a poetry book. OK, better than vitamin supplement pills, but still.

Put it this way, the Vogons would appreciate him:

Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many—they are few!

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Launch party...

[Yug]

I much prefer William McGonagall.

[Crabcakes]

There once was a man from North Iz
Who got into that politics biz
The problem, however,
Was that he was never
Any fucking good at it, and his poetry was equally shit and ended almost as badly as the result of the 2019 general election.

[Crabcakes]

Not joking here, Jez has (with Len McCluskey) published a poetry book. OK, better than vitamin supplement pills, but still.

Put it this way, the Vogons would appreciate him:

Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many—they are few!

Also: isn’t that poem essentially encouraging mob rule? Kinder, gentler politics indeed.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Ode to the Gruntlejezza
(by Vogan Bonnee aged 117¼)

Oh freddled gruntlejezzy,
Thy rancid micturations are to me
As abboted gabbleblotchits, in izzelingtun alloterment evenings
On a sozialistmus bee,
That moro'donnel hath blurted out,
Its stoppawar jurtles, grumbling
Into a rancid festering confectious antisemious.
Now the jurpling slayjid leftiecrusties,
Are slurping hagrilly up the Jezjizz,
And living spartfarts bleat and stipulate,
Like jowling vegan liverslime,
Groop, I implore thee, my wankling soshadrones,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles,mashurbitries.
Or else I shall rend thee in the ojones with my sloshydibber,
See if I don't!

(And get off my land)

[Youngian]

Not joking here, Jez has (with Len McCluskey) published a poetry book. OK, better than vitamin supplement pills, but still.

Put it this way, the Vogons would appreciate him:

Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many—they are few!

Tony Benn would also bore audiences with this Shelly quote along with Paul Foot who was convinced Percy was a prototype SWP activist.

[Youngian]

That might impress some Kippers on the doorstep but voters have told you once that you’re daft as a brush and you learn nothing.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Meaningful change stamped out by a podcast? Maybe it's not as popular as Ash and others say.

David Mellor and Ken Livingstone did a radio show for a long time. What's the difference?

[Yug]

Ken Livingstone wasn't a centrist melt trying to stamp out meaningful change.

[Andy McDandy]

Ah, the sort of popular that doesn't count if it's not popular with you.

[Oboogie]

I expect Diane Abbott gets a free pass for doing a show with Michael Portillo and Andrew Neil for how many years?

Also for asking Tory crook Jonathan Atkin to be Godfather to her son, James.

[Crabcakes]

How exactly are 2 blokes who haven’t been MPs for years, let alone in government, affecting anything? Also, they’re both to the left of the current mob, so even if they did shift anything it’d be in what you’d assume would be a direction they favoured, even if not by a tremendous amount.