viv_andersons_nana
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This idea that people should move on and ‘let go of/get over Corbyn’ is misguided IMO. One thing that stands out to my mind is this - the people who make and watch these films, who call out the lies and inconsistencies of those now in charge of the Labour Party, who call out the disgraceful campaign waged against the previous Labour leader not just from the right-wing/Establishment media but from staff members actually inside the party, who in theory were supposed to working to ensure a Labour government would be elected but who were actually doing the opposite, they are doing those things in response to the direction the country has taken since 2010(if not 2008).
Corbyn was a figurehead for the anti-austerity movement, for the poor, for the disabled, for refugees, migrants, for public ownership, for wealth redistribution, for social housing, for the homeless. This movement has been growing and growing and growing in the UK for years and years. The establishment media were not just trashing him, they were trashing opposing voices of any kind. They have been crushing the left into the ground for years. They will crush the poor, the left, black people, gay people, women, the disabled, immigrants, trans people. They will crush the opposition, any dissent. They will crush the unions.
Corbyn may be gone now but these groups, movements, this anger, this need for change and for something better, still exists and continues to grow. People are still striking, protesting, organising, marching, standing up, fighting. The young were mobilised by Corbyn’s policies, not necessarily the man himself. You put anyone up there saying what Corbyn said and a lot of people will follow.
This film being cancelled achieves nothing apart from showing us who really calls the shots. Pressure has been applied to the Glastonbury organisers and they have buckled. Those who champion free speech, from across the political and news spectrum, including Farage and Fox and McKenzie and O’Brien and Hartley-Brewer and Wootton, I’m sure they’ll be explaining why this film should be shown as planned.
The bottom line is the country is f*cked. Everybody knows it. The Tories know it, the Labour leaders know it. It needs radical change. It needs wealth redistribution and radical investment. There was a will to acknowledge and entertain and propose the ideas from the last Labour leader. There is none of that now. Which is why things will not get better.
And which is why people will still talk about what happened with Corbyn, because he was proposing something that would’ve made people’s lives better. Believe it or not, that matters to a lot of people. Until we have a government who governs on that basis, you’re just never going to get away from this sort of thing IMO.
You can ban or remove or shy away from showing this film all you want but you can’t ignore the facts. They’re all there in black and white. The rich are getting richer at a quicker rate than ever, tax avoidance and corruption is off the scale, prices and bills and mortgages and inflation are through the roof, the NHS is f*cked, the media is absolutely rotten to the core, services are cut to the bone, homelessness and child poverty is through the roof. Absolutely nothing works. Nothing at all.
Until someone in public life acknowledges these things then brace yourself for an even worse time. A film about Jeremy Corbyn being shown or not shown does not change anything. We are f*cked. At least Corbyn had the balls to call it out.
Corbyn was a figurehead for the anti-austerity movement, for the poor, for the disabled, for refugees, migrants, for public ownership, for wealth redistribution, for social housing, for the homeless. This movement has been growing and growing and growing in the UK for years and years. The establishment media were not just trashing him, they were trashing opposing voices of any kind. They have been crushing the left into the ground for years. They will crush the poor, the left, black people, gay people, women, the disabled, immigrants, trans people. They will crush the opposition, any dissent. They will crush the unions.
Corbyn may be gone now but these groups, movements, this anger, this need for change and for something better, still exists and continues to grow. People are still striking, protesting, organising, marching, standing up, fighting. The young were mobilised by Corbyn’s policies, not necessarily the man himself. You put anyone up there saying what Corbyn said and a lot of people will follow.
This film being cancelled achieves nothing apart from showing us who really calls the shots. Pressure has been applied to the Glastonbury organisers and they have buckled. Those who champion free speech, from across the political and news spectrum, including Farage and Fox and McKenzie and O’Brien and Hartley-Brewer and Wootton, I’m sure they’ll be explaining why this film should be shown as planned.
The bottom line is the country is f*cked. Everybody knows it. The Tories know it, the Labour leaders know it. It needs radical change. It needs wealth redistribution and radical investment. There was a will to acknowledge and entertain and propose the ideas from the last Labour leader. There is none of that now. Which is why things will not get better.
And which is why people will still talk about what happened with Corbyn, because he was proposing something that would’ve made people’s lives better. Believe it or not, that matters to a lot of people. Until we have a government who governs on that basis, you’re just never going to get away from this sort of thing IMO.
You can ban or remove or shy away from showing this film all you want but you can’t ignore the facts. They’re all there in black and white. The rich are getting richer at a quicker rate than ever, tax avoidance and corruption is off the scale, prices and bills and mortgages and inflation are through the roof, the NHS is f*cked, the media is absolutely rotten to the core, services are cut to the bone, homelessness and child poverty is through the roof. Absolutely nothing works. Nothing at all.
Until someone in public life acknowledges these things then brace yourself for an even worse time. A film about Jeremy Corbyn being shown or not shown does not change anything. We are f*cked. At least Corbyn had the balls to call it out.
