Jeremy Corbyn and Tory minister debate economic policy | LBC

Nick Gibb: "People are demanding 35% pay increases. Of course that would blow inflation apart."
Jeremy Corbyn: "If you paid them properly, you would actually have more money being spent in the economy, which would help investment and you would have a lot less poverty."
Iain Dale's Cross Question panel debate Labour and the economy.
On the panel is [from left to right]:
Schools minister Nick Gibb
Lib Dem MP Sarah Olney
LBC presenter Iain Dale
Boris Johnson's former advisor Samuel Kasumu
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
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[@anthonybariek997]

Jeremy Corbyn’s biggest problem was that’s he’s the most honest person trying to operate in the most dishonest industry. Honesty is a crime in modern politics

[@docfuturesoul]

Completely agree. The whole system is rotten but see his enthusiasm and oozing optimism to change lives for the better. He does not give up despite the odds

[@Coelacanth1]

'' Industry '' - well done.

[@ibrahimsinare5778]

In this modern world, honest does not operate freely without being challenged

[@norwoodboy6048]

Anti-Semite fossil.

[@redred9882]

Agreed. If he was a big dodgy and arrogant he would have done better!!

[@kingkold1000]

Jeremy Corbyn is a decent human being, and no amount of bad faith smearing will change that

[@markhepworth]

A decent human being Yes,but strangely for a decent human being,could never once find anything bad to say about putin,Chavez or indeed anyone associated with the left over the last 70 years..

[@markwelch3564]

I had some concerns about his foreign policy, but on domestic issues he is spot on!

[@mogreen19]

Corbyn is an antisemite. That is not a smear but a fact. And no antisemite who supports Hamas & Co is a decent human being.

[@PatrickStarfishman]

I totally agree with you but he would also have made a terrible prime minister.

[@Jonnyonthespot123]

@@PatrickStarfishman Compared to Johnson, May, Truss or Sunak? Mate you're having a laugh!

[@michaelshepherd2496]

"This is primary school stuff", here here. We need to get a serious group of people to start running this country properly.

[@ch-p2861]

Even now, hearing Jeremy Corbyn is such a breath of fresh air. And he has no toxicity towards Starmer and others, unlike the other way round.

[@ericconnor8419]

They really hate him, I can see why he is everything they pretend to be.

[@megaham1552]

I mean it was Corbyn's fault at the end of the day

[@omiethamsia9009]

@@megaham1552 how??

[@Henchman.24]

​@@megaham1552 it's hilarious and sad how easily the media assassinated his character, but it doesn't change how funny it is when you come across a clueless punter in a steady diet of legacy media

[@megaham1552]

@@Henchman.24 It's not about the media it's about admitting he could've done better but the guy was too stubborn to do that. If he just admitted that he would still be in Labour

[@goonerboz6023]

Most people want our utilities to be renationalised whether you are left or right because we are fed up of being ripped off by big corporations

[@ppo2424]

Yes, always the problem for Corbyn, because you couldn't do that while in the EU.

[@Bowhuntingskills]

The "rip off" is from energy wholesalers, most of which are foreign companies. You don't even have the faintest idea what you are talking about.

[@goonerboz6023]

@@Bowhuntingskills so when they sell it the next company doesn't make any money at all instead they do it for charity

[@Bowhuntingskills]

@@goonerboz6023 utility companies make a very small margin. Low single digits % of the bill that arrives every month is profit. Why do you think Bulb went bust?

[@goonerboz6023]

@@Bowhuntingskills so what utilities are much cheaper in countries where they are nationalised it's a fact used to be like this in the UK water and mail and railways were much cheaper and better service

[@williamwilson8582]

Corbyn, say what you like about him .He has in my view something which most politicians lack human decency and integrity . The right wing Murdock press did a magnificent hatchet job in demolishing his decency and integrity . Before anyone accuses me of being politically biased I voted for neither of the two main parties.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Corbyn should of accepted the result of the Referendum. He was anti EU all his political life just like his hero Tony Benn. He became leader suddenly flipped flopped and crashed in the Old Labour Leave seats.

[@SlowhandGreg]

Corbyn handed the Tories an 80 seat majority on a plate with his Hubris we needed a government of National unity in 2019 yet he would only support himself being PM and went to the country with a poll rating of -72 +12 The guy was a complete political car crash this post 2019 veneration really is sickening given what he did and what's happened to this country since 2019

[@williamwilson8582]

@@SlowhandGreg Get some honesty hear . The election was based on Brexit . Labour were against it Johnson was for it that was the main reason for the landslide victory many labour voters voted for the Cons .It would have been a much closer election otherwise . Brexit went well didn't it . A government of national unity how was that ever going to happen the one we have certainly haven't provided that on the contrary the country has never been so divided in my lifetime.

[@SlowhandGreg]

@@williamwilson8582 There was a window of opportunity in 2019 the Tory rebels would have supported a government to sort out a deal and a 2nd referendum just not with Corbyn in charge. The only way for that to happen was for Corbyn and his supporters to swallow their pride and do what was best for the country they wouldn't do it and called an election instead with 2 years still left to run. What really winds me up is this constant ulegising of Corbyn he was was a complete failure when the country needed true leadership he went missing

[@dannytoots6635]

@@SlowhandGregso you bought the right wing press’ apocryphal narrative and you don’t understand punctuation. Clown.

[@peace-now]

I'm sick of the media attacking Jeremy Corbyn.

[@afc89]

He's a communist of course he's going to get attacked for his views

[@ThePoochie101]

They’re just asking him basic economic questions mate, chill out

[@Seeker7172]

@@ThePoochie101 Did we watch the same interview? The Tory MP looked out of depth in a car park puddle.

[@abdell75roussos]

Its not the media miss. Its anyone who can add up, uses facts, stats, polls, reality in a hostile world.

[@davidrendall7195]

You expect a red carpet and no cross examination? Are you saying he is beyond scrutiny because you like him, and those who disagree with him are to have their freedom of speech removed?

[@jonathananderson3897]

What's terrible about this is the amount of money we are talking about. Billions in unpaid tax, enough to pay nurses, teachers and police fairly. Instead, he helps his wife and mates avoid tax then blames immigrants for our financial issues. Wake up Britain

[@LWQ15881]

Britain lol England more like

[@frixosfriedman7813]

Jeremy Corbyn the voice of reason again. British public continue to inflict self harm by dismissing all of his ideas and policies. Oh well, what cant you do eh?

[@kiriakoz]

in their defence (and I hate to defend them too much, as I got sick of the place and left many years ago), they have massively brainwashed by the tabloid press. You might say that is their fault (which in many ways it is, I guess), but many of them were raised in a climate of thinking that anything said on the 6 pm news (or newspapers) must be correct (which was progress on their ancestors who simply believed in the bible and/or paganism).

[@libertasdemocratiam887]

Why would we listen to a antisemite who supports terrorist organisations and calls him his friend? He also flip flops he was a Eurosceptic for years...until Brexit and he bacme the Labour leader, then he was for remain and a closer relationship.

[@eightiesmusic1984]

Corbyn lives rent free in the heads of many with not much going on in theirs. Reductive ' thinking' is part of why Britain is a basket case and has been for decades. It will never change. Frankly, there is no point arguing for a fairer society because the majority of those who would benefit do not want to know. Yet still they complain. They should just accept the consequences of the Tory policies they have voted for since 1918 and that includes the period 1997 to 2010 when so called Labour embraced Thatcherism.

[@tyronevaldez-kruger5313]

People tend to dislike reason. It seems that ignorance is the biggest threat to humanity, not a nuclear Armageddon or an asteroid.

[@yanapostrophe4331]

@@tyronevaldez-kruger5313 He’s the worst PM we never had 😂 Typical Corbyn fanboy…

[@timstoddard3707]

Saying the economy always tanks during a Labour leadership is rich considering the economic crash of the mid-1990s was caused by a Tory Government, the double dip recession caused by a Tory Government, the current cost of living crisis was caused by a Tory Government....

[@johnrussell3961]

And as the economy got worse the Tories looked for how power could help them personally. We are seeing de ja vu.

[@mogreen19]

You expect facts from Tories? Sorry mate ...

[@julezpanda14]

Thank you for this, Ive been worried I was the only person that knew this!! They also caused the bankruptcy in 2008 which a lot of people still blame Labour. Funny because it was Tories who invested so much money in Silicone Valley when it crashed it took us with it and guess who pulled the support of the bank, Rishi Sunak!!!

[@Chipsandgravy202]

I’m sorry how 2008 , we were 15 years into labour leadership

[@Chipsandgravy202]

Also British compartments of SVB were purchased for £1 and have held there value with British banks

[@scooby1992]

Ian Dale is hearing the things he wants to .

[@Staleyboi12]

He literally asked Corbyn about Rishi and then just forgot and thought Corbyn was referring to Starmer.

[@DorrisDiaz]

See how the interviewer is trying to twist Corbyn’s words and trying to make out that everyone else heard wrong? They just can’t help themselves from manipulating the truth. It’s utterly disrespectful and unprofessional.

[@riyadougla539]

Shows you how much hate they have for Corbyn.

[@ukmaxi]

Well, tbh, I love corbyn and I thought he was on about Starmer as well for a second... But I replayed the clip and I think there was a connecting word missing between sentences. Because if you do not pay full attention it does seem like he was referring to Starmer. It was just an accidental slip-up, happens to us all.

[@garrett2439]

@@ukmaxi The host of the show is supposed to be paying attention. You are too, but whatever.

[@ukmaxi]

@@garrett2439 Hey I was, but I missed the very subtle change in direction of the conversation. I am not faulting the guy for it, it happens.

[@sagahammer]

@@ukmaxi Corbyn needs no help from an interviewer to make him look a fool.

[@Wolfman-me5kd]

Corbyn makes to much sense to be a politician

[@Gerbilsftw]

Jeremy Corbyn is a legend and my biggest disappointment with the UK, even more so than Brexit, is that so many people lapped up the disgusting bile that the media spread about him. Everyone's always going on about things needing to change. Well we had once-in-decades chance to get that change, and instead we brought the Tories back in. Look where we are now.

[@frank1847]

Yes, and thank you. That was a great comment.

[@Ron.S.]

Have you heard of the Jewish lobby and the “conservative friends of Israel” where you’ll find all the big Tory names?

[@rosem5041]

It wasn’t just media, watch double down news and see for yourself. Also the takedown, al Jazeera documentary on israeli influence in uk politics.

[@tommyhall6695]

He was never a great personality quite boring. Never seemed to push his ideas, his shadow cabinet was a bit of a car crash. I would have voted if they had nationalised gas and electric and rail as a plan.

[@bortstanson2034]

​@@tommyhall6695 "Quite boring". Your kind elected Boris the entertainer, well done

[@bigpants6121]

Truss and Kwarteng 'Tanked' the economy, not Labour.

[@johng.1703]

correction, 13 years of Tory government has tanked the economy.

[@sueyourself5413]

@@johng.1703 They do get a special mention for managing to cause so much damage in such a short time.

[@notjustforhackers4252]

@@johng.1703 Correction, Labour tanked the economy, the Tories failed to rebuild it.

[@johng.1703]

@@notjustforhackers4252 really? how so? the 2008 banking crash was caused by Tory deregulation, so pray tell, how does that fall on Labour? or is there some other reason?

[@ianc7866]

​@@johng.1703 It was a totally caused by American deregulation. Sub prime. No excuse for being 13 years along and still blaming labour though.

[@myce-liam]

Thank you LBC for giving Corbyn a platform

[@webleydevelopment]

Only because he's out of the picture now. He's not a threat. LBC are as bad as the rest of the establishment media.

[@Bertrum123]

Yes to run labour down .

[@tonedowne]

@@Bertrum123 The sad truth is that Labour don’t deserve to win. All they are going to do is limp over the corpse of the Conservative Party into government. Once in they will just tinker around the edges of the failed system, slowing down the decline until the next Conservative government gets back in to finish the job of turning the UK into destitute corporate criminal cuckold. It’s beyond depressing

[@simon-fn7ju]

The more we hear of him the better we can remember why he's not relevant.. the absolute beauty of the freedom of speech.

[@grahamhollingworth8253]

Pity he didn't fall off it.

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

Lovely seeing Jeremy C relaxed and happy again, really owning this interview. Class!

[@Lilym661]

I really like Jeremy Corbyn, hope he gets back into parliament it is a shame he has been ousted.

[@gamma_dablam]

He's running as an independent. If he wins as an independent that's gonna be kinda mad

[@Sotangy247]

@@gamma_dablam I believe he will win massively

[@humanchannel7825]

@@Sotangy247 he won’t. The people spoke in 2019

[@tal-lancer]

am I the only one who knew immediately that corbyn was talking about sunak? goes to show iain doesn't really listen to people who he doesn't agree with

[@MrBurtonshaw]

I thought that.

[@Spiraliis1]

Eh, I think it can be seen either way. The question was poorly asked and quite broad so it can be received as 'Why is Sunak more trusted?' rather than "Why is Starmer less trusted'? and it didn't help that Jeremy didn't specify who it was he was talking about either.

[@redrob6026]

​@@Spiraliis1 he did talk about him being a new prime minister which is a bit of a give away

[@whynot217]

I agree. It was a very bizarre response from Iain.

[@mickthelick5788]

Was pretty clear that he was talking about Rishi..?

[@dadsbarmy254]

The Tories- a broad church singing from the same deluded hymn book. Jeremy Corbyn continues to be a voice of reason.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

He should of accepted the result of the Referendum. He was very anti EU all his political life just like his hero Tony Benn. He became leader suddenly flipped flopped and crashed in the Old Labour Leave seats.

[@dean8282]

Tories got their way Truss Kwarteng had free raine ignored experts OBR and IMF and destroyed the economy. Remember this! It is the underlying fact that their idoligy does not work. Never will. We have high crime poor transport and a bleak outlook. Please please stop voting Tory...

[@dadsbarmy254]

@@evolassunglasses4673 at the time I think maybe you’re right, I’m not sure that holds completely true now but that’s the benefit of hindsight.

[@norwoodboy6048]

Yes so much the voice of reason the labour party booted him out.

[@doghouseriley4732]

He should have investigated the reports of anti-semtism in the Labour PArty when they were report, instead of ignoring them for two years and stating that they did not exist. Labour's own report pointed out that the Leadership knew about it and did nothing. He is a man that is not fit for the modern world.

[@Matthew-bu7fg]

if Corbyn started a new party tomorrow, I'd sign up

[@jasonminton9681]

Me too, along with many!

[@mmmmmmmmmm.m.]

If Corbyn brings back the days off the big breakfast the word and long summer days drinking I'm in 😂!

[@dangriff12]

I really hope he doesn't. It would unfortunately break up the labour party.

[@abdell75roussos]

And the UK would be bankrupt and ungovernable within a very short space of time.

[@anthonynichol1142]

The Labour Party as it was formed, as a voice for working people (ie no assets to live off) no longer exists. If the early labour politicians saw it now they would despair at their descendants’ decision to condemn unions action!? The very thing that started the whole movement! The wolves have started wearing shepherds clothing now.

[@Paul-eb4jp]

Corbyn speaks so much sense but the media would never accept him, it's a tragedy. How on earth did Iain Dale mistake what he said about Sunak to be about Starmer?

[@neiltitmus9744]

Maybe thats what he wanted to hear?

[@elliotmorrow2222]

To be fair, I initially assumed the same thing at first in the flow of the conversation. Dale mentioned Starmer second and then immediately asked Corbyn a question, which made it seem like Corbyn was referring to Starmer rather than Sunak

[@johnhughes3796]

So why did the electorate choose to dismiss him so comprehensively at the election?

[@Paul-eb4jp]

@@johnhughes3796 Media brainwashing.

[@kathleenwyatt4831]

Jeremy's recollection of the Swedish journalist reminds me that I've always said Jeremy would raise no eyebrows in Scandinavia, or in the pre-Thatcher Labour party. Yet the media pilloried him as a dangerous extremist.

[@bereal6590]

My father told me if I voted for him then I was a communist and he would never speak to me again. Shame because he didn't stick to his part, I did vote corbyn ✌

[@Bryt25]

@@bereal6590 My dad said, before he died in 1980 of Thatcher - "She's gonna sort this country out!" I sometimes wish he and my mum could have had a look into the future and see what they did to us.

[@bereal6590]

@@Bryt25 I know that feeling really well. Not Thatcher as I don't think my family voted her in but I despise the woman, affected my education and working life. My family voted brexit and Tory and that's DESPITE ME TELLING them not to do it. When I said about the effects on children and grandchildren they simply said "err well it doesn't affect me" and I must be a communist! IT'S funny if it wasn't tragic. Stay sane and take care of yourself and have a great weekend :)

[@knoll9812]

Sadly true but a reality to be acknowledged. This country would not vote for his manifesto. If the voters will not vote for your manifesto than you give the country to the other party.

[@charlievernon4064]

Absolutely correct Jeremy

[@markhepworth]

😂

[@fuzzylogiceire]

Iain Dale caught napping there, it was clear that Corbyn was referring to Sunak, not Starmer, regarding presentation etc

[@TheBlackcredo]

We missed out terribly by not making Jeremy prime minister. Imagine how much better things would be by now.

[@denzel270]

Yeah, imagine him with Covid19. Plus we would probably be fighting along side Russia in Ukraine.

[@TheBlackcredo]

@@denzel270 if you look at Labour's record as the Welsh government during the pandemic they handled it far better than the tories in England. As for Russia, why do you think a socialist would support a far right government?

[@throttlegalsmagazineaustra7361]

​@@denzel270Because Johnson did so well, didn't he?

[@scottriddell926]

@@throttlegalsmagazineaustra7361 still wasn't Corbyn

[@ThomasKing19933]

The best PM we never had.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Corbyn should of accepted the result of the Referendum. He was anti EU all his political life just like his hero Tony Benn. He became leader suddenly flipped flopped and crashed in the Old Labour Leave seats

[@davidpearn2484]

Hear hear 👏👏👏.

[@skymaster4743]

The treacherous creatures at Labour Party led by Keir "Closet Tory" Starmer backstabbed him.

[@howard4510]

😂😅😂😅🤡

[@ThomasKing19933]

@@howard4510 oh not another clown troll.

[@CASM-ze7lb]

Love or hate Corbyn, but he’s talking facts.

[@davidty2006]

Man knows basic trickle up economics. Gotta give him credit for that.

[@ThePereubu1710]

he always has. He was a genuine threat to the status quo which is why the establishment and it's tame media spent 4 years destroying him.

[@axelbruv]

What has Corbyn done to deserve hate?

[@sueyourself5413]

@@axelbruv Been on the right side of almost every major issue throughout his entire political career. Oh, and caring about the poor.

[@garywilton246]

​@@ThePereubu1710 just like the media,are doing to trump... a world woth corbyn as PM and trump as president would be a far better world

[@Dukemountbatten]

I love Jeremy Corbyn ♥️ he wears his heart on his sleeve

[@petergreen5337]

Absolutely CORRECT and true

[@dvvecchio7193]

Especially with terrorist groups,he loves them!

[@Marvhead]

I laughed out loud when he (Iain Dale) said we've got a competent government.

[@jondo553]

There's no such thing, that's the tragic part. Most people think a government is capable of solving all our problems rather than thinking about how they can do things themselves.

[@mEmory______]

​@@jondo553just an absurd argument to hand over power to malicious corporations.

[@breadyegg]

"Competent" government epitomised by Thérèse Coffey!

[@deborahneale7048]

People's living standards have taken a steady downward trend since the Tories came into power

[@delatroy]

Brexit means brexit

[@Davespenathome]

Tory no longer means conservative though

[@agentobiwan]

You can count the number of conservatives in the tory party on one hand. There just the Labour of the late nineties with blue ties, and a huge splash of progressivism.

[@deborahneale7048]

@@agentobiwan Yeah. Not that many conservatives in the Tory party any more .Most of them are creeping authoritarians.

[@goldenbrown3283]

The living standards are also the responsibility of the public !!! Look around you and see how the new car leasing trend has taken off with young people !!! People need to learn how to manage their money !!! That is the problem within the UK !!! The public have got into the habit of going on spending sprees !!! If people manage their money and spent their money wisely then they would not have problems !!!.

[@kieransumner2668]

I frequently bump into Jeremy Corbyn because I live in his constituency. He's a very modest intellectual that does deserve respect whether you agree with him or not.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

He should of accepted the result of the Referendum. He was anti EU all his political life just like his hero Tony Benn. He became leader suddenly flipped flopped and crashed in the Old Labour Leave seats.

[@SlowhandGreg]

Corbyn handed the Tories an 80 seat majority on a plate with his Hubris we needed a government of National unity in 2019 yet he would only support himself being PM and went to the country with a poll rating of -72 +12 The guy was a complete political car crash this post 2019 veneration really is sickening given what he did and what's happened to this country since 2019

[@kieransumner2668]

@@SlowhandGreg I'm not taking your response seriously

[@swampy1234]

​@@kieransumner2668 ignore the Greg fellow. Buffoon.

[@rcm926]

@@SlowhandGreg With a key Brexit advocate like Boris being the Tory candidate, it was inevitable that the Conservatives were going to win big that election, regardless of who the Labour leader was.

[@solisblue5533]

Jeremy hit the nail on the head pay more ppl will spend more simple

[@frank1847]

I look upon Jeremy as a friend to me, and I never met him. He is honest, caring, kind, and thoughtful. I would vote for him as PM all day long.❤

[@johnnyhall3942]

What we lost. What we could have had. Heartbreak.

[@joshuagonsalves3904]

I actually hate the british public for not universally voting for Corbyn when they had the chance. He is by far the best option, and its not even close.

[@archvaldor]

I know what you mean but to be fair there was several billion pounds of brainwashing carried out by the media on the Tories behalf.

[@emilyscloset2648]

+1

[@T1tusCr0w]

+2

[@SlowhandGreg]

I couldn't have ever voted for him nor would any of my family my Dad was a paratrooper in the war lost half his immediate family to Russian atrocities, there's no way a peacenik Socialist Intellectual idealogue who has never solved a political problem in his life or compromised to get anything done could ever persuade me to support him. I'm socially Liberal fiscally left leaning yet he was electorally toxic to a huge swath of the voting public especially elderly voters like me.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Corbyn should of accepted the result of the Referendum. He was very anti EU all his political life just like his hero Tony. He became leader suddenly flipped flopped and crashed in the Old Labour Leave seats.

[@Imfat8888]

the tories and reform Party can't get Jezza out their heads they mention him constantly, even Anne Witchecom mentioned him in her reform party speech, they are obsessed with him because deep down they wish they were like him, Normal and Decent,

[@evolassunglasses4673]

But he should of accepted the result of the Referendum. He was very anti EU all his political life just like his hero Tony Benn. He became leader suddenly flipped flopped and crashed in the Old Labour Leave seats.

[@ianbarnes9947]

They all fear him.

[@ianbarnes9947]

​@Evola’s Sunglasses if memory serves, it was Starmer who coerced JC into not discounting a second referendum. Starmer and all the other tories couldn't allow JC to win the election.

[@James_36]

socialist and communist and decent are polar opposites

[@OliverMarson]

Most of the money they borrowed went into keeping the banks going.

[@danielcanaan4787]

Most of the money borrowed went to their cronies contracts during covid

[@katiebuck132]

I love Jeremy Corbyn he is the epitome of honesty decency kindness and compassion for all we would be so much better off if he had become out prime minister

[@frank1847]

I agree with you Katie Buck.

[@patsykeane7950]

As a resident of North Islington,I totally agree with both of you and appreciate you saying that.❤

[@FannyShmellar]

Yes very compassionate and kind, he said Martin McGuinness (the man who blew up innocent women and children at random for 30 years) a great man upon his death. I’m a working class Labour voter but would never accept such a man as my leader. Never.

[@RenewedRS]

​@@FannyShmellarbollocks

[@FannyShmellar]

@@RenewedRS Look it up. Truth hurts doesn’t it

[@samoke4527]

Starmer went back on his own words because that's what starmer does. He's a grifter

[@Coelacanth1]

More like a puppet to another master

[@doghouseriley4732]

Corbyn was found to have ignored reports of racism within his own party by a Labour Party investigation. I'll go with the grifter

[@christopherbanks4652]

​@@Coelacanth1 they all are

[@toffeebear7133]

Too much self doubt and hedging for a broader electorate, and in so doing standing up for nothing

[@jumpa654]

Honestly I wish Corbyn was prime minister. The UK wouldn't be a paradise, but I guarantee we wouldn't have the absolute shambles of a government we have had in the last decade.

[@chatham43]

....and there would have been no disastrous lockdown under Corbyn that's for sure....

[@Captain-Chats]

I agree

[@bereal6590]

Agreed

[@jabbadabbajew6035]

He would help reverse Neo Liberalism. .

[@nicholasgerrish6022]

Are you one of those people who have nothing to lose in life, which ever Party runs the country? I hope not, but such people exist, who having little chance of making a go of it, are content to see the country go to the dogs. Corbyn, as PM, was one of them……

[@danielfreeley5217]

Corbyn's got integrity, and he'sc probably the only poltico I'd actually trust.

[@lynne1412]

JC the most decent man in politics . What we could have had and lost.

[@celt456]

Well spoken, Jeremy!

[@codedee]

Jeremy Corbyn should be our Prime Minister. There is no way he should have lost in ‘17 and ‘19. It still makes me sad.

[@peaceLove1988]

Tories own 90% of the media and a lot of people cannot think or don't want to think for themselves.

[@backupaccount2394]

And how many people who were pro-Tory , pro-brexit back then but are now very anti

[@stephengraham1153]

"Jeremy Corbyn should be our Prime Minister." No he shouldn't.. He's not Prime Minister material. He's a sincere enough politician and probably one of the few honest ones, but in my mind at least he falls into the same category as Michael Foot. Much of the electorate can barely tear themselves away from the tories, despite their last 13 years of misrule. They will not suddenly switch over to someone on the left of the Labour party. But I think he would be ideal filling a cabinet post, maybe running the DWP or some other role where a social conscience would matter.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

He should of accepted the result of the Referendum. He was anti EU all his political life just like his hero Tony Benn. He became leader and suddenly flipped flopped and crashed in the Old Labour Leave seats.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

@@backupaccount2394 he should of accepted the result of the Referendum. He was very anti EU all his political life just like his hero Tony Benn. He became leader suddenly flipped flopped and crashed in the Old Labour Leave seats.

[@Patrica84]

Jeremy Corby never disappoint me. I admire him even more now, he seems so in peace with himself and much more solid in his arguments.

[@mrbotan5416]

His only problem was that he was weak in rooting out the rot and filth within the party. He allowed backstabbers to remain when he should have cleansed the party at the earliest opportunity. He didn’t, they created false stories and railroaded him constantly to the point where any logical person would agree without it, he probably would have won the general election. That’s my only issue with Corbyn, but then again had he done that the media would have probably called him authoritarian. He is a nice guy and believed these idiots within the party had the country in their interest when really they only cared about having a Kier Starmer yes man, Tory-lite in power.

[@TroyaE117]

What planet are you on?

[@dylanwestren]

Couldn't really be less solid in his arguments

[@OK-fi4yq]

bro couldn’t hack a levels imagine the state we’d be in if he led us through covid

[@joegreen2750]

In the same way Mickey Mouse is his friend and ally Nicholas Sturgeon, for God's sake come into the real world.

[@jassensummogum]

Jeramy Corbyn the only adult in the room.

[@MrTARDIS]

I think the most interesting part of this whole clip is from 5:30 onwards. Jeremy: I don't think Rishi Sunak is financially or politically competent. Iain: Wait, you don't think Keir Starmer is financially or politically competent? Jeremy: No, I didn't say that. I said Rishi isn't. Iain: I heard you say Keir. Jeremy: I didn't. Iain: Okay, but let's talk about how you did say that for a few minutes. It's a real-time demonstration of how the media approaches the left in the UK. It was so brazen.

[@mdog111]

I'd say that it's a real time demonstration of how the media has always dealt with Mr Corbyn.

[@bengreen1209]

Underrated comment, you have hit the nail on the head. Let's waste some of his talking time making him clarify something that anyone with a working pair of ears and an IQ in the double digits knew what he said.

[@scapingby]

i don't think it's that deep, he just misheard him

[@django3422]

Yeah, while Corbyn didn't explicitly name Sunak in his initial response, the context that the host provided made it really clear. Seems like a pretty dishonest and clumsy move by the host.

[@LucyOLastic]

@@scapingby More like Dale was fixated on getting Corbyn off topic and onto the subject of Starmer.

[@cyrneco]

To think you Brits could have had corbyn as a pm and instead went for Johnson is mind boggling.

[@Coelacanth1]

Who wins any election is all the hands of the media for the media will always have us hating the oppressed whilst loving the oppressor, if we're not careful.

[@doghouseriley4732]

When a clown like Johnson can beat you, you have no political standing left. Most people with a brain would have seen the writing on the wall and retired. He just believes that his time will come, it won't

[@abandonstrings]

Some of us tried :(

[@daftdigital]

We like our three part slogans with lashings of lies.

[@James_36]

you mean the guy who campaigned to be out of the EU for decades only then to flip flop and pretend almost like he wanted to do another vote... oh and hes a communist.. yes the mind boggles...

[@teresawilliamson9377]

Jeremy wiped the floor with him. 🎤🎤🎤🎉

[@estherpage2107]

All I can say as a labour voter and activist of 60 years is DON’T TRUST STARMER.

[@Anduril1974]

Ahhh Corbyn, the best PM we never had. Always sensible, always polite and respectful. Always caring for those suffering. And the MSM and Tories assassinated his character. What a disgrace

[@colinross3755]

As did many in Labour

[@globalist1990]

Imagine the state of these people that keep attacking him and trying to leave him in the mud. Horrible people.

[@colinross3755]

@@globalist1990 quite a number of them voted in to Westminster by ordinary folk - the system is f**ked with the few creaming off the top

[@californiadreamin8423]

Another fawning Corbyn sycophant post. You make me sick. The reality is Corbyn betrayed the Labour Party and working people and his record shows that.

[@smeshfactory3992]

@@globalist1990 Including James O'Brian and the woman who proceeds him at 1pm.

[@JuliePGUK]

If there is a need for food banks then the economy has failed end of story

[@chatham43]

....or more education on how to budget.....

[@ObakuZenCenter]

@@chatham43 Why are you ignorant of basic economics? Many people literally cannot afford food in the UK now.

[@andrewhoughton-py1hq]

​@@ObakuZenCenter but can afford the latest phone?😂 Come on mate

[@ryanseager123456789]

@@andrewhoughton-py1hq ah the Avocado toast argument. People in poverty do not have the newest phones. Despite what you read in the daily mail

[@Me0wish]

@@chatham43 How do you budget 0?

[@jaydunstan1618]

Jeremy displays pure dignity.

[@julianjazz7296]

Jeremy Corbyn... Imagine what a world of hope and progress we'd have, if he and his movement and ideas of social democracy were in charge.

[@badBoiSlots]

Yeah a movement in 5 pound notes being replaced with 100s😂

[@philmuggeson1849]

And just like that all of lifes problems would have disappeared, I genuinely believe that's how Corbyn fanatics think

[@Xubelo]

@@philmuggeson1849 “fanatics?” Do you get your news from The Sun & The Daily Mail by any chance? 🤪

[@philmuggeson1849]

How did I know that standard question would be incoming ? 😂😂

[@Xubelo]

@@philmuggeson1849 how did I know you wouldn’t answer it …? 🤷‍♂️

[@anonymouse68]

I hope JC smashes the Labour Party standing as an independent.

[@franklingoodwin]

He will

[@Jim1255783]

He can only win - at most - one constituency standing as an independent.

[@sarahlawson6183]

How will Corbyn standing as independent smash the Labour Party?

[@doghouseriley4732]

He is a man who got into bed with Momentum to steal the party leadership, he ignored the racism in hios own party and you think this man is fit for Government? One little man with a massive, deluded ego.

[@user-qe9gt5rg6t]

​​@@sarahlawson6183 smash it in his constituency perhaps? Starmer is a wet wipe. Blue Labour!!! Ugghhhhhhhhhhhhh rotten! Trying to imitate the Tories! Rotten to the core. British public love it though. Masochists.

[@imrankhan-hm2ie]

Imagine voting for BoJo the clown over Jeremy.

[@Coelacanth1]

Come election time it's always worth observing the media in a detached fashion to see who the media are promoting for invariably the media always gets what it promotes to be the un-elected tail that wags the democratic dog

[@chatham43]

....we have a democracy in this country......

[@darrennandrewfitness2836]

​@chatham43 loool well are u happy with current matter and the state of this country

[@TristanBanks]

​@chatham43 not really. First past the post is probably the worst voting system.

[@richardhealy]

I didn't.

Nice to see Jeremy back on the airwaves . Top man.

[@samebill6277]

Ian Dale deliberately misrepresenting what Corbyn said about Sunak and Starmer...

[@malcolmharris5277]

TBH I also thought he had been talking about Starmer

[@zacnutting3141]

I admire corbyn so much for standing by the Labour Party despite all that’s happened. Takes a very honourable man to do that regardless of what you think of him.

[@ObakuZenCenter]

It's time now though that he left the party. Tens of thousands have already and will now vote Green. A vote for Starmer is a vote for Tories.

[@mahfuzurchowdhury2765]

@@ObakuZenCenter, sadly, no. Each vote for the greens, means the more and more likely the Tories will be back in power. We all need to unite behind an opposition to the Tories, and Labour is our best bet to achieve that.

[@tommyatkins2527]

@@ObakuZenCenter lolyou mean green who will never get in and espiecily now weaken uk, and get us out of nato and apease both russia and china lol

[@tommyatkins2527]

@@mahfuzurchowdhury2765 lol i mean that may never happen seems after comrade corbyn leadership gone down the pan

[@jondo553]

Why would you admire a man for "sticking by" party politics like it's a football team? Disgusting

[@rboots121]

Wow, Nick really managed to rattle off all of his pathetic party soundbites in one go! Very impressive.

[@alanhat5252]

Shame the whole of it was a pack of lies.

[@duckindave]

The Tory quack got his all ducks in a row 😂

[@smburton8338]

Jeremy Corbyn, what a legend.

[@xyz-sh8xx]

Yup. Responsible for the biggest Labour defeat in a general election.

[@tugdumbly1927]

“We borrowed it from our friends in the city and then gave it to our friends in the city and you’ll be paying for it”, is what I heard him say.

[@Gary-zt3xe]

I heard it too but watching it again those lines have gone. You Tube hiding something?

[@Adamb87]

Corbyn all the way everyday this man MUST be our PM not Rishi Rich nor Keir "don't vote for me" Starmer

[@JackTenrec-qk4zp]

Keir " I will throw you out of the party if you join the picket line " Starmer

[@richardwilliams8953]

Nice to see JC getting some airtime....

[@chrisj9700]

Funny he ducked LBC while labour leader

[@Coelacanth1]

@@chrisj9700 Not really for it's generally considered wise for leaders to duck casual public inquiry unless the questions and answers are strictly agreed beforehand.

[@chrisj9700]

@@Coelacanth1 Boris Johnson went on LBC plenty of times while PM. There’s no excuse.

[@karlovejansson6473]

Well done Jeremy … this is very much needed in a debate … and yes … the questions is of such low level …..

[@almariosaqr6056]

Respect Jeremy !

[@henryburton6529]

The history of the Labour Party is the last time they were in power was the UKs most prosperous time ever. This guy trying to revise history stinks

[@Alex-mj5dv]

They left behind a note saying ‘I’m afraid there is no money left’ !!!

[@waynereid9471]

Idiot Global Financial Crash Google it

[@timstoddard3707]

@@Alex-mj5dv That's the same note John Major left Tony Blair.

[@henryburton6529]

@@Alex-mj5dv AND still during Blairs term the UK had their most prosperous period. Check out the data on the Blair years compared to the last 13 years of Conservative governments. they are opposites. the country got more rich than ever and the NHS was ranked no.1 in the world during labours last term now the NHS is in tatters and we are all much poorer than when the Conservatives took power. Facts are facts

[@segue2ant395]

@@Alex-mj5dv Which of course was nothing to do with having just borrowed £40bn to cover for the collapse of Lehman Brothers - a bank that couldn't have operated in the UK if we still had proper regulations. Remind me - who was it who deregulated the banking sector?

[@djmarti7773]

Well said Jeremy corbyn...tories deluded..

[@kevintwine2315]

We truly missed out with Corbyn.

[@premkhan3969]

I love and miss JC ❤

[@Blackswitch92]

Notice how he answered the question directly, noticed how he admitted there were failures within labour and how to resolve them. The Tory spokesperson just said look how great we are and admitted nothing they’re completely out of touch.

[@lilme7052]

Everything jeremy said was right ! Tories listen to him.

[@Coelacanth1]

They're scared of him and what given the chance he can invoke

[@annepollock8306]

Coelacanth. Absolutely.

[@awhite2501]

Corby is smarter than people think

[@ukporkpie7829]

Brilliant LBC for giving Jeremy a voice. Tells the truth and none of the mainstream idiots can counter him

[@matthewbaynham6286]

I hope Corbyn stands as an independent in the next general election and wins his seat by a massive margin. Then Starmer can debate if he's a friend or not, again.

[@arjuncalidas2736]

Hope a handful of Corbyn supporters do that and become the difference between a Labour and a Tory government..

[@temptemp4174]

Corbyn should split the Labour party and force starmer into a coalition

[@kevinsmarts9953]

He probably will and if the UK had any sense they'd kick the Tory's out of the rest of the UK wholesale but I have this nasty feeling they'll elect them again and see the country fall even further from grace. The very best thing I did in my whole life was leave the UK before Brexit completed, what a disaster that place has become.

[@ObakuZenCenter]

Starmer is a disgrace.

[@Uio3eva]

@@temptemp4174 the entire Labour left should just merge with the Green Party, and they’ve got a ready made voter base and a ready made recognisable party for those on the left to vote for. Labour is dead I’m afraid if you’re genuinely left wing

[@anglonorse2943]

Did anyone else clock the look on the woman in red's face when Corbyn asked the tory mouthpiece what planet he was on ?

[@Coelacanth1]

Mouthpiece ? Ringpiece.

[@ChristianTMWood]

"When we came into office in 2010 we had an annual budget deficit of £156bn" "What is it now?" "er, it's its, er, we have been through the covid crisis"

[@jordlc3480]

Love Jeremy

[@guywarner8391]

Ian Dale is really bad at presenting/chairing here. Has to be said. I am no Corbyn fan, but he was talking about Sunak, and Dale tried to put words in his mouth. Nick Gibb - what planet is he on!!

[@Coelacanth1]

That's his job.

[@chucknutbraker]

Jezza! Go on son, give it to the rich.

[@c0ntr1but10n]

Nothing but love for Jeremy Corbyn

[@lervish1966]

Zombie

[@fancythatmeal9136]

I never liked Corbyn as I vote conservative, I was so naive Corbyn is like the wiseman truthful decent rare people that come round in one lifetime.

[@eatthisvr6]

i dont know how jeremy has the patience!!

[@ethancole61]

Simply by being able to actually listen to what Jeremy has to say people will start to realise they have let the narrative imposed about his personality by Murdoch get in the way of the progressive policies that truly would've changed this country for the better.

[@DeeDee-mf3jt]

Corbyn has honour 100%

[@brucefindlay]

Oh what could have been. Jeremy Çorbyn could and would have transformed the UK.

[@Jonnyonthespot123]

Undecided voters prefer Sunak over Starmer. What do you put that down to? Insanity. Imagine looking at the past 13 years and thinking "Yes I'd like some more of that please!"

[@emilyscloset2648]

Or starmer having the personality of wet cardboard

[@ianbarnes9947]

Sadly Starmer won't offer any relief from the last 13yrs.....it's almost as if he's one of them tories himself!

[@Jonnyonthespot123]

@@emilyscloset2648 Starmer isn't exciting or fun or action packed. Do you know who was? Boris 'my hair is so bad you'll comment on that and ignore my crimes' Johnson. We tried having a clown, it's destroying our country. I want boring serious sensible people running my country again.

[@Jonnyonthespot123]

@@ianbarnes9947 We only get two real choices, assuming you're correct Tory Lite is better than Tory full on.

[@emilyscloset2648]

@@Jonnyonthespot123 You misunderstand me, Not my personal political position, but I think that's why people won't vote for him. I personally won't vote for a labour party that is so hostile to it's left wing faction. And before you say, but Tories get in. Ok. No one's vote is deserved but should be earned.

[@user-qn6yt3zx3w]

Alas, the great British public don’t want policies that may help them, they just want the media to decide for them.

[@josephgabrielambrose8279]

Notice how he just listens

[@annenunney9907]

Brilliant Jeremy corbyn

[@davidharrison9324]

Tanking economy??can we mention Liz Truss plse!!!!

[@_Lancs2024]

The issue with the 2019 GE was that Conservatives were allowed to campaign on one issue - Brexit which crowded any conversation about other issues

[@blagzster6255]

Glad to see Jeremy being invited to speak. Hopefully we can start to see alot more of him again.

[@vietashroffoliver2521]

Jeremy politics is poorer by far without you, the only one with some integrity

[@rory7590]

How deluded are Tories when it comes to their own management of the economy? Since WW2 there have been seven economic recessions. All but one of them occurred under Conservative governments. They can bang on about the recession in 2008 as long as they want, but it won’t change the fact that it was caused by Bankers in the US or that the UK had had 10 years of previously unchecked economic growth under Labour. The longest sustained period of economic growth since WW2.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

That 10 years of growth was FAKE, it was driven by the banking and financial system that then crashed. Both ConLab have embraced open borders Globalisation = rule by international finance and haven't any solutions.

[@stevej.7926]

Very similar delusion in the US

[@whynot217]

Inflation being at 2.9% in the autumn will still mean prices have increased by nearly 20% on average in 2 years, it doesn’t lose the justification for pay rises and stop awful mismanagement of the country and public finances by the Tories

[@italianstallion9170]

Corbyn is right about more money in the economy and more taxes because when people get a pay rise they pay more tax including VAT, duty on fuel etc most of these pay rises will find it's way back to the government. but it's inflation that will be affected as more spending.

[@gilljames4320]

Well said Jeremy 👏