Agent Cob’s speech yesterday contained nothing new, even the reference to a form of customs union, it being a regurgitation of the 2017 Manifesto. There was no mention of ‘a customs union’ in that but that was clearly the intent as expressed in this passage….
…fresh negotiating priorities that have a strong emphasis on retaining the benefits of the Single Market and the Customs Union.
So why the big show, the big relaunch, why now? Timing is everything with a vote on membership of the customs union coming up in the near future. The BBC’s political analysts were for some reason dodging the real reason for Corbyn’s grand pronouncement…though the website does note it….
Could the government fall?
Jeremy Corbyn refused to be drawn on whether his policy shift was an attempt to remove Theresa May from office and force a general election.
You might think that such a cynical political manoeuvre aimed at toppling the government and putting Corbyn into No10 would be the hot topic for BBC journo’s who love a bit of intrigue and yet not so much. The BBC’s Iain Watson, who actually wrote the above quote which is buried well down the article rather than headlining as it should, didn’t come up with that analysis after the speech on 5Live…his take then was that this was Corbyn positioning himself so that when a vote came on Brexit he could vote against it because, if it had no customs union he could say it did not meet his terms. Then we have Laura Kuenssberg telling us ‘What Corbyn’s Brexit speech means’ but she makes nothing of the biggest story other than to suggest a union between Tory Remainers and Corbyn could ‘damage the government’….no excited examinations of the seismic shift in the political landscape that this ploy of Corbyn’s might suggest? How different when Boris says anything…Kuenssberg goes full-on conspiracy theory mode and reports vigorously and with certainty that he is lining himself up for a leadership bid….despite later admitting she got her info from ‘vicious Westminster gossip’ sources [ie anti-Boris, pro-EU]. If the Soubry’s of this world did betray Party and country and vote with Corbyn it could well end up with him in power….not something that is newsworthy? Not newsworthy that Corbyn’s scheming has little to do with Brexit but more to do with his own self-interest of getting into power?
Kuenssberg and Watson seem both to have decided eventually that the real story is that Corbyn knows the EU will not agree to ‘a customs union’ [pretty obvious] and thus is really about more fence sitting and keeping the two sides of his party together….giving Labour a clear dividing line between it and the Tories on Brexit.
No…It’s a cynical power-grab, plain and simple. Corbyn is as bent as all the other politicians despite his constant refrains about morality and ethics and a new form of kinder, gentler, more honest politics. Maybe the BBC should one day admit their new hero has feet of clay.
Then again we know that won’t happen…remember how they refused to investigate the claims that Corbyn was in close contact with Czech spies and when they did get around to the story did so only to try and trash it. How different when a Tory MP apologised for saying Corbyn had been paid to spy….as Douglas Murray points out…
The story about Jeremy Corbyn’s contacts with a member of Czech intelligence in the 1980s has not been treated with great seriousness by our national broadcaster. At first the BBC deigned not to run the story. Then they treated it like some kind of joke. For instance, given a chance to question Corbyn over his past record the BBC journalist Steph McGovern last week bowled Corbyn the humorous soft-ball ‘A final question: are you a Czech spy?’ A question which gave much opportunity for laughter and a firm ‘No’ from Corbyn.
The BBC’s minimal attempts to cover the story, or treat it seriously, are one matter – and one which I would not normally bother to note. But then over recent days they suddenly went huge on the story – running it on rolling news bulletins as well as the website. The aspect of the story that the BBC suddenly went huge on was the apology from Conservative MP Ben Bradley.
Then there’s this BBC story about ‘Transgender model Munroe Bergdorf who has become an LGBT adviser to Labour.’
The BBC barely mentions the controversy that surrounds this appointment, previous extreme comments on social media, unlike its eagerness to print everything it could on Toby Young’s past indiscretions. The BBC downplays Bergdorf’s hate filled abuse suggesting it might all be made up…
Shortly afterwards the model wrote a lengthy Facebook post, which it’s claimed included the comment: “Honestly I don’t have energy to talk about the racial violence of white people any more. Yes ALL white people.
“Because most of ya’ll don’t even realise or refuse to acknowledge that your existence, privilege and success as a race is built on the backs, blood and death of people of colour.
“Your entire existence is drenched in racism.”
That’s it, the sum total of the BBC’s revelations about her comments. The Mail tells us her comments were in fact far worse and wide-ranging in their targets attacking all white people, suffragettes and gay Tories….consider she is Labour’s ‘equalities advisor’…..and read on….
In a lengthy Facebook rant earlier this year, she wrote: ‘Honestly I don’t have energy to talk about the racial violence of white people any more. Yes ALL white people.
‘Because most of ya’ll don’t even realise or refuse to acknowledge that your existence, privilege and success as a race is built on the backs, blood and death of people of colour.
‘Your entire existence is drenched in racism. From micro-aggressions to terrorism, you guys built the blueprint for this s***.
‘Come see me when you realise that racism isn’t learned, it’s inherited and consciously or unconsciously passed down through privilege.
‘Once white people begin to admit that their race is the most violent and oppressive force of nature on Earth… then we can talk.
‘Until then stay acting shocked about how the world continues to stay f***** at the hands of your ancestors and your heads that remain buried in the sand with hands over your ears.’
She also branded the suffragettes ‘white supremacists’ in a tweet posted earlier this month during the centenary celebrations of women’s right to vote.
She wrote: ‘FYI – The Suffragettes were white supremacists who were fighting for WHITE women’s rights – they specifically left black women out of the movement.
‘It is not 100 years since women got the vote it’s 100 years since WHITE women got the vote. Black women couldn’t vote until MUCH later.’
She has also attacked homosexual Conservatives, writing online: ‘Gay male Tories are a special kind of d**khead. It’s actually quite astonishing.’
Remarkable….at a time when the BBC has just been filling the airwaves with tales of heroic suffragettes the BBC fails to mention the hate speech against them….and why are gay Tories not on the BBC radar as victims of hate crime? The BBC has been relentless in its attacks on ‘social media’ for its alleged promotion of hate speech…and yet when it is a Corbyn acolyte we get radio silence.
Once again the BBC gives Corbyn and his cabal a free pass and all bad news is censored or shaped to his benefit.
Pretty sure much of the German Press in the 30’s probably gave Hitler similar positive coverage and censorship of negative news once they thought he was their saviour. Careful what you wish for…change is coming…Laura!
“Change is coming’
Really Jeremy you almost think that there would be a revolution , where the ordinary Joe had the power over the machinery of government . That the civil service would be open , honest and accountable . That the judiciary can’t do judicial activism , and best of all the BBCs licence fee is abolished .
Corbyn is presumptuous and deluded.
All he can hope for is his shock troops to bully youngsters , and his goons to use the media, the fiddling at the ballot box and grooming gangs.
Nobody with any patriotic bone in their body, or any sense of recent history-from the 70s, IRA, Hamas or The Soviet Empire will vote for this useless foreskin with some old publes attached.
Guess he`s hoping for the Blair-educated idiots to get him in, them being young and very, very thick.
And any halfway-competent or principled Tory Party would slay the nasty, knacker
But we`ve got May, Hunt, Hammond and Rudd, Soubry and Grieve, Mitchell and Greening.
Can only hope that those clots who hate the Tories as I do will NOT vote again for Corbyn, seeing as he has shown that he COULD get in if they repeat their dalliance with this scrote.
I thought the photo was of Spike Milligan!
Looks to me like he’s giving his commode a hard time.
He would struggle to use a Commode, the Marxist shit hasn’t got a spine to prop himself up.
On a serious note, a very nasty piece of work and a genuine danger to this country, and before all you lefties start to abuse me, i’m allowed an opinion..!!!
He is indeed.
As someone once said ‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend’.
His enemies are America, Israel, The West, capitalism, democracy and, in its current (though culturally and democratically diminished) state, Britain.
Therefore pretty easy to work out who his friends are, though the BBC seem a bit slow on the uptake. Oh, hang on….
“His enemies are America, Israel, The West, capitalism, democracy and, in its current (though culturally and democratically diminished) state, Britain.”
Definitely Israel!
Dafydd.
isn`t that Lord Prescott of The Stool of what you speekey wiv? #LiewithTraceyTemple.com#
Anniversary of his death in 2002 the other day. Maybe its a boy/girl thing-but he was crap, so I think.
But he got the Python bunch going, so I owe him. Even though half my boyfriends at the time knew their silly sketches off by heart-and we were expected to be impressed.
Alicia you may well be right regarding the male/female thing. All the boys at my school thought Spike was brilliant but none of the lasses did. I also think admiration for Spike was generational as most older folk thought he was crap too – my father included. If you ever get the opportunity read Puckoon by Spike – a satyrical uptake on the Oirish troubles. It really is funny – well I thought so!
This is class based warfare and the establishment are on the attack here….but they have been doing that against Trump, and it has completely failed (in fact it has backfired as people no longer use their media to be brainwashed). Why do you think the 2nd amendment is under attack by the establishment in the US?…because the US constitution was designed so the government/establishment couldnt take away the freedoms of the people. Why do you think the freedoms of the internet are being censored? Because what we think is not being controlled.
We do not have that fight back yet here. We have the establishment and their media departments doing everything they can to manoeuvre our country into a position where we give up on Brexit (because the EU benefits them)…..but at what cost? The BBC’s credibility is shot to pieces with the public. The Labour party has basically turned its back on its northern voters. Big business Tories are tearing their party in 2.
Those in the elite are showing their Marxists ideology’s……the state runs and controls the issues of the entire state on behalf of the entire state….and these people feel they alone can make those decisions on everyone else’s behalf (free will for the few). They despise free will and personal freedom. They need subjects to conform and give themselves to their common good….this is communism. People arent going to just sit by and watch our freedoms be taken away. We will either go the way of the US and Germany after the fall of the wall and people will fight back or be like Cambodia where half the population was taken to the fields and eradicated….
….but who likes being a slave after they have been free? This is going to backfire as the question of “who are those who control what is said” is going to swamp everyone, including the liberals and lefties. What do you think happens to the educated, the artists, the academics by the totalitarian states or the USSR, China, North Korea, Cambodia?….they are the first to get sent to the d£ath camps.
Common sense will prevail as freedom is everything. Those pushing for control will lose votes and therefore leads to escalation of state control. The US constitution all those years ago but protections in place for this very thing that is happening today….and they are being proven right. The lose any freedom and liberty at all means we are subjects…the question is, how many People are willing to give up their freedom…
‘…..including the liberals and the lefties.’
The likes of Germaine Greer and other lefties suddenly finding themselves no platformed at universities and howled down by the Twittermob are a case in point.
They used to be similarly intolerant of other opinions though nowhere near as strident or violent, but nonetheless they set the ball rolling, the genie was out of the bottle and they are now on the arse end of the consequences.
The Revenge of Enoch Powell.
Bet Ray Honeyford is chuckling up there as well!
Well deserved blowback.
Great post Tothepoint.
Big principles, well explained.
That willingness to lose votes and any democratic pretences is a shock to me, but we know now that we`re drillijng deep into the heart of their sham of a state.
No wonder there is no talk over EU Sovereignty or any democratic deficit. And spurious cant over “economic issues”-all of which have been shown to be fearful lies from EU “experts” or liberal quangocrats and media jockeys.
And we all know what THEIR projections are now worth.
Fact Checks?…fat cheques for the BBC, lying hounds.
In case you get your news from the BBC, just to let you know, Theresa May bested Corbyn at Prime Minister’s Question Times by a huge margin.
May was crap when she first started doing PM question time, like a terrified bunny, but today she gave Corbyn a few upper cuts, a wedgie and stole his lunch box money.
I know he’s a an easy target, a confused, rambling Marxist whose being wandering the streets since 1974, but I just wish most of the country would watch it or that the BBC would report it when she does well.
” a confused, rambling Marxist whose being wandering the streets since 1974″
I wouldn’t mind betting that many a time he wakes up in the mornings not knowing which commie phone conversation he had the previous evening till one of his momentum groupies (layabout, middleclass, female squatters) who worship at his feet remind him!
Am I missing something but the comrades in Corbyns party don’t seem to be saying much about the PMs speech. And al beeb hasn’t said much about that fact either
I’m guessing that the soros remainers will be on message for Sunday – in conspiracy with the EU reich to undermine the uk negotiation position as they always do – in concert with Marr and that al beeb girl whose father was the leader of the Labour party