My son Jake asked me yesterday:”What is it with the Guardian’s existential insecurity and deep political cognitive dissonance? (Yep, he’s a philosophy student). He said “they’re all over the place. What’s that about?” He said that he expected the unintelligible mob-mouthing from the headlines of the right wing rags such as the Express and Sun, but felt the disease has spread to what he had previously considered the “reasonably reasonable media.”
He commented that even the Guardian and Independent have now succumbed to bouts of “febrile tutting, compulsive McCarthyist curtain twitching, spasmodic sneering and barnyard braying” at HM’s leader of the opposition The “mass hysteria, he says, has become a “shape-shifting reactionist wreck of contradiction, screeching mob mentality headlines, demanding ever- impossible, unreasonable standards of just one politician: Jeremy Corbyn.”
He thought I should gather together evidence of contradictions to highlight his point, but found someone had already done an outstanding job of that.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Colin Millar’s extraordinary gallery of empirical evidence.
And yes, Jake’s observations are absolutely right.
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There is a possibility Jeremy Corbyn will be Prime Minister of the UK by the end of next week. There is no better time to highlight how, no matter what Corbyn does or whatever position he takes, his critics will attack him – even if they totally contradict themselves (thread).
Corbyn opposes the exploitation of foreign sweatshop-workers – Labour MPs compare him to Nigel Farage:
Corbyn defends migrants. Labour MPs criticise him for not listening to public’s immigration concerns:
Corbyn is wrong to prioritise the Labour party over the public (The Observer):
Corbyn is wrong to prioritise the public over the Labour party (The Observer):
Does the working class need to ask for its Labour Party back? The more working class voters there were in a constituency in 2017, the more it tended to swing to the Tories
Corbyn doesn’t appeal enough to the middle class:
(John Rentoul): independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-…
Corbyn is anti-capitalist and spends too much time criticising companies who pay low wages (John Rentoul):
John Rentoul
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Astonishing. McDonald’s a decent co making good food that most voters enjoy, & Labour says no http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/7081614/Jeremy-Corbyn-and-cronies-snub-McDonalds-from-Labour-conference.html …
Latest News headlines, exclusives and opinion | The Sun
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Corbyn’s problem? He is too radical (‘Communism’ added to URL, when not relevant to story) – Andrew Rawnsley:
Why Labour is gravitating towards the Conservatives’ dream candidate | Andrew Rawnsley. Jeremy Corbyn is surging in the leadership contest on a leftward tide in the membership of the party
Corbyn’s problem? He isn’t radical enough – Andrew Rawnsley:
Corbyn’s problem? He’s both too centrist. He’s also too much of a fringe figure. Both are argued in the same piece by Tom Peck:
Corbyn’s problem? He is too elitist:
Corbyn’s problem? He is too populist:
Jeremy Corbyn is too nostalgic, argues John Harris:
Jeremy Corbyn is not nostalgic enough, argues John Harris:
Corbyn is too similar to Trump, says James O’Brien:
Corbyn makes Trump look ‘a genius’, says James O’Brien:
Corbyn is not like Trump, says James O’Brien:
James O’Brien
✔@mrjamesob
I’m no fan but it’s really, really not. Trump attacks the ones telling the truth; Corbyn attacks the ones peddling racist lies. https://twitter.com/montie/status/1044916199761616896 …
Tim Montgomerie
✔@montie
Hard to tell the difference between Trump and Corbyn in their constant attacks on the free press
Corbyn is even worse than Trump, says James O’Brien:
Jeremy Corbyn is simply too principled:
Jeremy Corbyn is a sellout who isn’t principled at all:
Jeremy Corbyn has no chance of power whatsoever (Brendan O’Neill):
Jeremy Corbyn’s chance of power should terrify everyone (Brendan O’Neill):
Jeremy Corbyn is a snowflake who is too sensitive (Brendan O’Neill):
Jeremy Corbyn is too insensitive (Brendan O’Neill):
Corbyn is a threat to life as we know it (Brendan O’Neill):
spiked@spikedonline“This week we have had a chilling insight into Corbyn’s authoritarianism. For a politician to make open threats against the press is deeply disturbing. He cares nothing for free speech or press freedom.”
Brendan O’Neill on the Corbynista threat to liberty
Corbyn is no threat whatsoever to life as we know it (Brendan O’Neill):
Jeremy Corbyn is NOT a communist (Brendan O’Neill):
Jeremy Corbyn IS a communist (Brendan O’Neill):
spiked@spikedonline“There’s a great irony to the Czech spy story: Corbyn insists he wasn’t involved with the Stalinists and yet he has responded in a quite Stalinist way to this story.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky
Jeremy Corbyn is too interested in power (Nick Cohen):
The danger of Jeremy Corbyn is that he is totally unelectable (Nick Cohen):
The danger of Jeremy Corbyn is that he is too electable (Nick Cohen):
Nick Cohen believes Corbyn is too radically left-wing:
But conversely, Nick Cohen also believes Corbyn isn’t radically left-wing enough:
What Labour needs now is a takeover by real left-wing radicals | The Spectator
To say that the Labour party is in crisis because it is ‘too left-wing’ is to miss the point spectacularly. With eyes wide open, and all democratic…
Dan Hodges now, saying Corbyn is too keen for Brexit:
(((Dan Hodges)))
✔@DPJHodges
The reason Corbyn is adopting a more aggressively pro-Brexit stance is the same reason he’s aggressively rejecting the IHRA definition. He’s calculated he can take Labour Remainer votes for granted. They’ll sulk a bit, then say “but the food-banks”, and vote for him.
Mitch Benn: Corbyn isn’t brave enough to change his mind on Brexit:
Mitch Benn
✔@MitchBenn
Corbyn doesn’t have the guts to allow his position on Brexit to be challenged and the membership don’t have the guts to make him.
Mitch Benn: Has the penny finally dropped for Jeremy?
Corbyn was wrong not to oppose Theresa May’s Brexit plan (Philip Collins):
Corbyn was wrong not to support Theresa May’s Brexit Plan (Philip Collins):
Peter Mandleson: By not opposing Tory Brexit, Corbyn is betraying the national interest:
Peter Mandleson: By opposing Tory Brexit, Corbyn is betraying the national interest:
Corbyn is wrong not to want a national election:
Corbyn is wrong to want a national election:
Jeremy Corbyn is rushing to embrace Labour’s annihilation | Polly Toynbee
Corbyn is set to lead Labour into electoral oblivion:
Veteran Labour MPs unite against left-wing candidate saying ‘Anyone But Corbyn
Corbyn is failing by not winning an electoral landslide:
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Astonishing isn’t it? I often encounter the same sort of incoherent contradictory nonsense from commenters online, many of whom are probably a mixture of either Tories /Blairites and the Politically illiterate Sun-reading Reactionaries. But it’s to be expected from people like that, not from professional journalists in the more (one would hope) respectable press. There just seems to be this objectionable cloud of confused criticism aimed at Jeremy Corbyn for no reason and for every excuse. I guess the Establishment and the Intelligence services have done an effective job in drumming up the disapproval of a confused and gullible electorate, and equally confusing media that have jumped on the anti-Socialist bandwagon.
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The propagandists are well aware that many people can hold two contradictory thoughts/criticisms at the same time, and especially when said criticisms are directed at the emotional ‘body’ and, as such, contained therein, as opposed to the mental ‘body. No doubt an expert in this field could explain it and describe it much more clearly.
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