Jeremy Corbyn is 'not going anywhere' John McDonnell - BBC News

Asked by Andrew Neil if it was "all over" for Mr Corbyn, the shadow chancellor John McDonnell replied, "no, not at all, not at all, Jeremy's not going anywhere. He was elected nine months ago with the biggest mandate of any political leader in our country and he's not going anywhere."
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[@liam3359]

John McDonnell is an absolute legend. Couldn't agree more, the coup will only serve to weaken the party at a time of crisis.

[@SuperLuckyLad]

By the party do you mean the Scottish Labour party or the London one or the Welsh one or the one for people outside of London (which does not appear to exist), or the Gay one or the Women's one or the Black one or the Islamic one. Notice that working people don't appear to figure in the Labour partieS anymore.

[@arc7772]

So people in Scotland, Wales, London, gay people, black people etc. aren't working people?

[@LEO-xo9cz]

+SuperLuckyLad I agree. The leave figures show who favours his stance.

[@SuperLuckyLad]

A RC .....that's right they are not there as a working class organisation, they are sectarian groupings all with their individual dynamics. As an example listen to the contempt pouring out of the London labour party for what they call "uneducated peasants" who voted Leave.Labour isn't a party anymore it is a group of Party's.

[@dhm5675]

+Michael L it would be better if you swang across the conservatives. The blairites have made the labour party tory lite that the labour heartland cant even tell the difference anymore. Jeremy is well needed!.

[@richardw7959]

Why don't the Blairites leave and create a new party? Labour is supposed to represent working folk, not career politicians with their own agendas.

[@smokey7930]

that's what corbyn is doing, he is thinking about the working people and that's why the other members of the party are fucked off

[@richardw7959]

Lomas Wefing Exactly my point... They are welcome to leave the party whenever they want.

[@juice6521]

I'm so sick of seeing Tony Blair. Even after all the shit he's done he still has the GALL to return to the spotlight and tell us that we shouldn't back a "radical" like Corbyn.

[@shedendpussys]

Corbyn doesn't represent working people. He represents posh little london students living off mum & dad.

[@MultiWalrus1]

Damn right.

[@serjthereturn]

just because Corbyn criticised the EU doesn't mean he wanted a Brexit . NEVER have I seen him quoted as saying he wanted to leave the EU. So where has this myth come from? There's no nuance in political discussion any more.

[@shutthefrontdoor4518]

he was always anti eu as a backbencher, he only changed his view when he became party leader to appease his party members why do you think he advocated remain but didnt even attemp to fight for it?

[@serjthereturn]

+shut thefrontdoor he never said he wanted to leave, he said he wanted it to radically change

[@serjthereturn]

+Keith Zero yeah due to 30 years of neo liberalism destroying their economic base. Corbyn is the progressive antidote

[@simpsonhenry7289]

+serjthereturn Take a look at "Jeremy Corbyn makes the case for Brexit"

[@serjthereturn]

Simpson Henry that's the Brexit campaign using his words for their own ends. Again, he never argues to leave the EU, only to reform

[@cameronsmith8242]

Leave Blairites, leave! Progressive minds will replace you.

[@AllThingsCubey]

things worked under Blair. Do you actually understand anything about him other than Iraq? anything? You call yourselves progressives, I'd call you complainers. You want change but you won't accept what has already worked for this country. And a man with 1970s politics isn't progressive, he's out of the times and dragging us backwards!

[@cameronsmith8242]

ThePeople'sPanzer that very much depends on your version of 'worked'. 'New Labour' were Tories. Look at the 2001 speech that Thatcher made after Labour won the election, telling her contemporaries not to fret because they had 'won'. Meaning right wing ideology and succeeded. That was Blair's legacy (as well as his war crimes). Blairites out. It is time for Labour to return to its roots.

[@AllThingsCubey]

+Cameron Smith This whole idea that Blairites are Tories, it's just crap. Tory means cuts, selling of industry and services, and destroying the public sector. Like I said Blair put money into the NHS and Education, he created the minimum wage, tax credits, made museums free.... How is any of this Tory?

[@cameronsmith8242]

Blair began the dismantling process of the NHS! Something even Thatcher wouldn't have dreamed of! Those were good things yes but Conservatives have introduced policies that help the people occasionally to. You have to look at the general direction that the party is headed. New Labour were firmly right wing.

[@jetpigeon8758]

Do you mean regressive, like Michael Foot?

[@theunholysoul]

I will leave the Labour Party when Corbyn leaves.

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

Bye

[@usernamemehr]

would support McDonnell or Corbyn in a general election

[@scubasausage]

Of course, you're a muslim!

[@usernamemehr]

Scuba Sausage too right!

[@ryshed4365]

Muslims have every right to vote, this isn't 1912 you seperatist

[@scubasausage]

***** No one said they didnt pal.

[@llsspp]

Am I the only one who thinks the people fighting Jeremy are themselves destroying the prospect of a labour government? "He's not credible" Ahhhh get out of the party because you're dragging the rest of us down. He represents what Labour should be, if you disagree, maybe it's your views that are out of line?

[@evertonwood]

I can see right through John McDonnell. One of the most inauthentic politicians I have ever seen.

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

Both he and Comrade Corbyn are deeply unpleasant people.

[@SgtAndrewM]

Well this aged about as well as milk

[@alanbennetts3080]

John McDonnell is doing a great job as Shadow Chancellor!

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

Yes.......

[@mightymissk]

Holy shit, as we say in Canada. Though John McDonnell handled it well, Andrew Neil was unbelievably obnoxious in this interview. Neil practically demanded that Corbyn resign, and his repeated attempts to forced McDonnell to speculate about what he'd do if Corbyn did resign, made me really angry. I hope it angered other people as well. Especially English working people. Bugger Andrew Neil and the mainstream media toffs. And God Bless Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.

[@johannesnicolaas]

Jeremy is not going anywhere..... that is so true. Because he is down and out all ready.

[@Harrison402]

Finally ! Some smart thinking and some loyalty , this is what we need at the moment . Everyone needs to calm down and start thinking about the task at hand , it's going to be turbulent but it's going to be exciting .

[@kimoykalinago4154]

that interviewer is a tool what happens if the shadow Cabinet walk out??......well we replace them lol

[@AllThingsCubey]

There's only one Labour MP in Scotland, you can't replace the Scottish minister. And putting unqualified backbenchers in place of the shadow cabinet? that's madness, like putting a dinosaur back bencher in charge of the Labour party, oh wait.

[@scubasausage]

I dont think you understand, if the current cabinet were to walk out, Corbyn wouldnt have enough MP's to form a shadow government as so many of them have either previously resigned or announced that they would never work for him.

[@keegan773]

You're right there John, he's certainly not going to Downing Street.

[@philip013]

Thank fuck Jeremy has John McDonnell standing next to him.

[@kmostudios]

Jeremy Corbyn 100% behind you I like John McDonnell too

[@shamanahaboolist]

I've got so much time for John McDonnell. There's a good politician right there and there aren't many of them.

[@scubasausage]

***** Socialists are mentally disabled, dribbling retards. And the British population will never elect one. Gutted.

[@shamanahaboolist]

Scuba Sausage People who care about the society they are in are substantially more intelligent than you.

[@scubasausage]

***** Socialism has NEVER EVER EVER EVER worked anywhere. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states See, find me a nation on there which has better egalitarianism, life expectancy, literacy than most free market european nations. Anyone who thinks socialism is good for any population is quite considerably less intelligent than me.

[@shamanahaboolist]

Scuba Sausage Plus capitlaism is responsible for most of the wars for nearly 300 years and slavery and two atomic bombs dropped and simply more crimes on humanity than I could shake a stick at... literally.

[@shamanahaboolist]

Scuba Sausage "If I am wrong, name a successful socialist state," That you are incapable of recognizing that I already did mention successful socialist states shows you are thick as shit. Just know that the whole world is laughing at people as dumb as you.

[@mc-ec3bu]

He is right about one thing "Jeremy Corbyn is 'not going anywhere" he will always just be a number 2 (in every way)

[@bigben7986]

Andrew Neil's questions now sound pathetic and completely out of touch with reality. McDonnell keeps his cool. How did he envisage that Labour today would be ahead of the Tories in the polls?

[@KnavishDave]

Not going to no.10 thats for sure

[@leapsplashafrog]

Of course Article 50 should start yesterday!!

[@LoreleiLala]

A lot of dignity and sense in the face of repeated provocation and nonsense from the interviewer.

[@charliejennings6268]

That's his job. What would you have him do, sit on his lap and have a sing song?

[@LoreleiLala]

That sounds like a fun idea. But no, his job is to find out the facts, not repeatedly make incorrect insinuations.

[@PJB1995]

+Charlie Jennings there's a difference between asking valid questions (especially hard to answer ones) and making loaded allegations to push an obviously bias narrative.

[@ryshed4365]

NO have some respect for a leader with a massive mandate and not try and ask daft arse questions

[@cuckingfunt9353]

If Corbyn goes, I will boycott the Labour party, I will NEVER vote Labour again. . . Corbyn is the last chance for Labour as far as I am concerned.

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

Who's your first choice?

[@w-james9277]

I will ever vote Labour again unless they get rid of Corbyn.

[@cameronsmith8242]

Then you are a Blairite

[@w-james9277]

Cameron Smith No. Im someone who believes in traditional Labour. A party who stands up for the working man.

[@cameronsmith8242]

😂 Corbyn is a Socialist! Why then do you not like Corbyn? This lack of confidence comes only from the media and Blairite members of parliament. Who are not looking out for the working man.

[@w-james9277]

Cameron Smith I don't like him because he's too left wing and has the charisma of a of a pile of logs. He's shown a lack of proper leadership and sacked anyone who challenges him. He's supposed to be the alliterative prime minister yet my dog has a better chance of becoming elected. He has no connection with the working man. Why didn't he go to places like Grimsby or Middlesborough and actually talk to the struggling families? Because he doesn't care, thats why.

[@shedendpussys]

So true mate. Corbyn represents posh little london students. Working people pffft ahah. Yeah right.

[@adamsapple5544]

I agree we need a strong leader vote ukip

[@richardgregory3684]

Well, he was absolutely right: Corbyn really didn't get anywhere. Unless you count the scrapheap. "Let's look at the electoral test". LOLOL!

[@jasonds5043]

Labour membership have stated even more of them would devote for JC. JC is doing better than any austerity-lite blairiteMP could do with voters!

[@mc-tr2vh]

You can say that again absolutely nowhere at all this is the end of the line for him and by association you too.

[@serjthereturn]

democracy not allowed

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

It's an understatement to say it's getting tense in the Labour camp. I think Corbyn, McDonnell and the remaining Corbyn supporters should seriously consider arming themselves, a la Che Guevara, to avoid being forcibly removed. With a leadership challenge being mounted it's on "like fat Pat's thong" to quote Chunkymark.

[@Anxian]

Shame about his nuclear views, and his flip flop on the EU , turning out Pro... it makes him unelectable for me.

[@housebrigade]

wouldn't u rather a 100 billion pumped back into our economy instead on some weapons of mass destruction, we're never gonna use. even if we wanted to use them, it's the US who really have the last say

[@Anxian]

housebrigade The security and defence of your country should be a no1 priority. He's also anti-nuclear power, which is just ridiculous in this day and age.

[@AllThingsCubey]

+Anx- ian he's a dinosaur. Yes security should come above all else and not only is he unwilling to use military action, he openly said he'd never push the nuclear button (collapsing the principal of nuclear deterrent) and he has mused over the idea of of abolishing the British Army! Yes he speaks for the working class more than the others, but you can't help the working classes of you collapse the economy. Blair knew that, and despite everything said about him he steered the country for his first 8 years with the longest period of uninterrupted growth, investment in education and health care, the national minimum wage, tax credits and more. He may have been less left wing but he was successful in his aims and people benefitted from it.

[@housebrigade]

+Anx- ian or we can just stop pissing countries off by invading them. There's plenty of countries without nuclear weapons who are don't just fine. even if we renewed trident, the US would still have the lady say on whether we could use it or not.

[@totalfreedom1282]

Anx- ian his nuclear views? What that he doesn't want to invest in a bomb which he will never use. Trident is literally the biggest waste in taxes EVER. You're investing in a bomb which if used would make a nuclear holocaust. Why would anyone use it? Its literally the dumbest decision you could do. Yes lets build a bomb you can't use. And to top it all off. Countries are MORE Likely to bomb us with their unusable nuclear weapons if we have a nuclear weapon. So lets spend the money in the NHS. Better yet in technology so our economy can be more efficient.

[@Arc1ight]

jesus, stop trying to make him say if arrgghhh!

[@mc-tr2vh]

nice of him to admit it. he is going nowhere at all and he will take labour with him.

[@Olmelliah]

I live all the way across the sea in America, but I fucking LOVE Corbyn. This whole internal coup seems like a bunch of BS to me.

[@Liofa73]

I didn't hear anything McDonnell was saying, I was too Andrew Neil's dyed comb-over...

[@philb5188]

Labour need to respect the referendum now. The other issue is, he believes in positive discrimination, and there's only one culture suffers at the hands of that policy, a Culture he appears to hate whether or not, it doesn't guarantee getting the best people in any job. Hence why working class people won't vote for him. I don't want people in any jobs, based on their Identity, rather than treat all people the same and lets base people of best for the job. That seems fair to me.

[@adamsapple5544]

corbyn should go & stop being so stubborn Labour needs a better leader!!!

[@totalwarking7839]

You won't find a better leader then Corbyn.

[@jetpigeon8758]

That is why Labour is doomed.

[@adamsapple5544]

Give it time & he'll be gone..

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

Oh Clown Corbyn, what have you done?! 🤡

[@TheBaconWizard]

This is no-change. The Shadow Cabinet never wanted JC but could not move against the overwhelming will of the members. Finally they are doing what we all wanted and fucking-off. They should join the Tories where they actually belong, and make room for proper Labour ministers.

[@privilegedshitlord5342]

Tory-Lite Blairites in "acting like Tories" shocker

[@philipeaton3102]

labour are falling apart out of eu life is good

[@spookycheeseballs]

Don't worry Jeremy. Diane Abbott is going to spearhead your response to your "enemy's within".She is behind you 100%. Jeremy.......Jeremy...............................JEREMY!!!!!!!

[@arpitpatel83]

26/06/2016: Andrew Neil : is it all over for jeremy corbyn? 13/12/2019: IT IS NOW!

[@stevereid4092]

not that I am stupid enough to subscribe to the illusions of democracy nor would I ever support a party that decimated national standards of decency, & our place in the global economy. I felt violated witnessing that horrible, weak eagles women talking against her party leader. a man that has faced nothing but adversity and mockery since his appointment and has done so with strength and dignity. when she couldn't even get through her first TV appearance without resorting to the waterworks to make her point. then had the audacity to suggest she might stand to replace him. is this really what British politics has come to???

[@EMERALDBATTLES]

Pathetic questions by the media regarding labours appeal to the current bigoted status quo. This climate of contempt exists because of the dissafected voter communities that were at the end of selfish austerity policies. All chiefly thanks to the right wing since margaret thatcher. Since then they have failed to provide the countries citizens, with equal access to good education welfare and economic opportunities. Labour should stick to it's progressive values, and open up to its voters, the larger problems that lead to highly divided and inequality infested country England has become. Why don't countries like canada or germany share these very similar problems since reagan and thatcher?

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

Did they remove the engine?

[@nicksim1602]

Labour, who disowned and deserted their traditional voters back in 92, their traditional voters were further disenfranchised by Blair, are now led by a man who didn;t mention the working class once in the run-up to his Labour election leadership triumph, or the EU referendum, (although he mentioned the immigrants many times). I, a child of life long Labour voters, should be a Labour voter, but I have never voted. I could see through the messianic charm of Blair, the incompetence and unsociability of Brown, and the disgust with which many in the Labour party hold for the working class. So, it would seem the Labour party has become the party for immigrants. With the Brexit vote and presumed fewer migrants on the horizon, I can see the party that brought healthcare and state pensions to the masses,... becoming a protest party the size of the Liberals. It's a great shame they deserted and lost their base voters, but above all, it's a great shame they lost their loyalty and allegiance.

[@peawa9138]

Spilt the party get the game over and out. Election coming very soon

[@jimmymyers8753]

50,000. New Fishing Jobs !!!

[@moali125]

You watch those fish stocks go, then wave bye bye to all the fish out there.

[@jimmymyers8753]

+moali125 Well at least the Brits will have tasted them !! At the moment all fish caught over the limits set by Brussels go into Landfills !!!

[@louisgunn]

the fish have held a referendum, and are under the control of the Dogger Bank, the first underwater republic

[@richardlaversuch9460]

"Jeremy is not going anywhere. Or if he is, we are all going with him!"

[@Kratos-005]

Corbyn was always rooting for brexit, we all know it. Hehe. I think it's important now that we all look to the future, we need a strong team of brexit politicians to go over to Brussels and get a good deal for Britain. Things will looks rocky, but ftse 100 has gained some ground now, it didn't last for long did it! The future looks bright :)

[@thelongroad9750]

That's what makes him the best man for the job.

[@SimplyGimpy]

f you want to see the future of Liberalism, Progressives and western society -- look at the comments of any KZbin politics video. We preach love and we live hatred.

[@Curi0u50ne]

Blairites out! All of em!!

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

Em em

[@nednelson7529]

I think JC is the man for the new PM

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

I think you need to lay of the crack, and get a job.

[@danielbush5022]

good old biased bbc

[@dipuss1169]

He should have sacked them on day one, they are not labour they are blairites/tories

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

BS alert

[@IThinkItsForYou]

John McDonnell is like the grandad you wish you had. Great guy

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

Really? He's the grandfather I'd have absolutely hated.

[@peawa9138]

Keep Calm the rule of law still being followed. Getting out of THE ECB (love the idea to put a name in the hat you need the current leader to quit?)

[@ronariverah3909]

This guys has a nice manner about him

[@ashleybishton742]

He wants to beat up the tories he's even sworn and drawn to violence be even said it there's videos of it. He told the world to not give a fuck.

[@ashleybishton742]

m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/i163q6N6gsqDla8

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

No

[@amancalledjim5382]

Do the decent thing Corbyn and go !!! More than half your party has no faith in you.not to mention you was on the losing side of a referendum.

[@totalwarking7839]

Most of PLP have no faith in him but I don't care what they think. The members decide who will be leader.

[@amancalledjim5382]

for the sake of the labour party he should go.

[@totalwarking7839]

No, Labour MPs should support the elected leader of the party or resign. If he goes then thousands of members will leave the party, trade unions will stop supporting the labour party and labour will be destory at the next election. We tried new labour and the last election, it's time for something different

[@amancalledjim5382]

Totalwarking7 but that the whole reason why they have no confidence in him.

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

He had to hang on like the pathetic narcissist he truly is, gifting that idiot Boris Johnson his 80 seat majority in the process.

[@666SunTzu666]

Lenin would have been proud!

[@muhammadumair2922]

#KeepCorbyn

[@louisgunn]

well the bit about Corbyn 'going nowhere' is factual, the party members are not the electorate, so keeping him , means an another tory gov.

[@MrGlove191]

You think the fundamental problems of the Labour Party are going to be wished away by replacing a socialist with a Blairite? you are severely deluded.

[@louisgunn]

really couldn't care, not a natural labour voter

[@MrGlove191]

louisgunn You made an assertion that they would lose the next election, I took issue with that. That's all its not about political alignment.

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

​@MrGlove19201 2019 proved you right?

[@ceridawn]

Sensible man!

[@chriscdw4578]

Like this man

[@gingrr666]

Gisella Stuart, a new Labour BREXIT leader can beat Boris in a general election

[@chriscdw4578]

Like this mab

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

A gist gnat goller?

[@applepye87]

❤ John McDonnell

[@annenunney9907]

Oh god what we might have had so really sorry for Jeremy and John

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

Pair of pricks

[@xfoolsgoldx]

Jeremy for prime minister😉☺

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

No.

[@atismia5231]

Respect to John McDonnell

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

No.

[@Cristobels-Green-Boots]

McDonnell for Chancellor🌹