[Oboogie]

I do wonder how Corbyn's supporters feel about this unquestioning support for Putin's imperialism, especially when they look at the other members of Putin's fan club, eg Trump and Farage because that's who Jezza is siding with.

[Andy McDandy]

If you remember "Mikey Mikey" from waaaay back, he greeted Trump's 2016 victory with "Yaah boo, in your face, centrist dads!".' Similarly, when the cunt was up in court, Fenton's pet twat was, if not sympathetic, saving their venom for the Democrats and the legal system.

Sticking it to the man, telling it like it is, shaking things up, showing those clever bastards what's what. Stuff like Mr Deeds, Legally Blonde, it's ingrained in popular culture. So Jez gets a "well, at least he's not one of them" from the far right.

[Nigredo]

I do wonder how Corbyn's supporters feel about this unquestioning support for Putin's imperialism, especially when they look at the other members of Putin's fan club, eg Trump and Farage because that's who Jezza is siding with.

It doesn't matter to them, they've got the "man of peace and principle all his career" blinkers on and couldn't give a fig about the finer details.

[Andy McDandy]

Had that debate with a few people over the summer. Them sounding off about how he was the most honest politician ever, how he's always been proved right, how he was protesting whatever cause before it was fashionable.

Started with a few facts - the famous South African embassy photo and so on - to no avail. "You're just saying that!" came up a lot, along with "You're frightened of him!" and "Then why are the establishment so terrified of him, is it because his ideas might work?". I was then told it was best to go to bed because I was rather drunk and on the verge of starting a fight with a guy 20 years younger than me and in the army.

It's conspiracy theory all over again. Evidence against him is there because it's what they want you to think. He could rob them blind and they'd thank him for taking such an interest in the contents of their pockets.

[Nigredo]

There was a rather informative online essay titled "The Right Side of History" doing the rounds a few years ago but I seem unable to find it now.

[mattomac]

Had that debate with a few people over the summer. Them sounding off about how he was the most honest politician ever, how he's always been proved right, how he was protesting whatever cause before it was fashionable.

Started with a few facts - the famous South African embassy photo and so on - to no avail. "You're just saying that!" came up a lot, along with "You're frightened of him!" and "Then why are the establishment so terrified of him, is it because his ideas might work?". I was then told it was best to go to bed because I was rather drunk and on the verge of starting a fight with a guy 20 years younger than me and in the army.

It's conspiracy theory all over again. Evidence against him is there because it's what they want you to think. He could rob them blind and they'd thank him for taking such an interest in the contents of their pockets.

It dawned on me when I attended the smith/corbyn nomination meeting, everything they hated was default Smith’s position.

Everything they liked was Corbyn’s position.

Even though I would say they were 40/50% incorrect. It was and is a cult.

[Abernathy]

Ah, yes. I attended the hustings meeting arranged when Smith challenged Corbyn for the leadership at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham. The Corbyn cultists were there in force (you might say mob-handed). My abiding memory of what was a rather unpleasant experience was near the end of the session, when both contenders were asked to name a novel by a female author that they had read and enjoyed. Smith cited Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet. Corbyn said he liked Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, and was vociferously cheered to the echo by his assembled worshippers - for saying that he'd read a fucking book.

Almost more than anything else, that told me just about everything I needed to know about Corbyn, his intellectual worth, and nature of his obscene cult.

[Andy McDandy]

It's the worthiness. Everything has to be so fucking worthy.

[Youngian]

He quoted something unmemorable from Ben Okri in a conference speech and said 'genius' when the audience clapped. It was like David Brent telling the black guy in the office how much he liked Denzil Washington.