Jeremy Corbyn’s landslide Labour leadership victory - an outsider's view | Anywhere but Westminster

[@PeterFlanagan0987]

The comment section here really hasn’t aged well.

[@xyzsame4081]

1:29 Chuka Umunna "Globalization hasn't delivered enough." Wrong - it worked just fine and as it was intended to work. "Globalization" is a neoliberal speciality, it protects the investments of Western manufacturing companies in exotic countries, it pits the workforce of the wealthy and the poor countries against each other. Makes them compete. "free" trade" agreements make sure the products made under sweatshops conditions can then be exported by the Western companies from the poor to the wealthy countries - since the wages are low they cannot sell them where they produce them, the workers = potential customers just do not have enough disposable income. That works only with the economic recipe applied after WW2, in U.S., Western Europe, Japan, .... When the workers got their fair share in the gains of productivity and could buy what was produced with their relatively high wages. So with "globalization" it must be guaranteed that no government EVER can slap import tariffs on those sweatshop products in order to stop outsourcing of domestic jobs. Those agreements still apply for a long time after they were quitted (30 years is very common, that is insanely long, the Western companies can sue governments in this time for compensation - and they use a private "court" system. So the governments handed power over to the Multinationals and it is very hard to get out of these deals. The corporations can of course easily have their branches everywhere (letterbox corporations) so they will have party status everywhere and can sue most of the relevant governments. (Philip Morris did that, they used an old "trade deal" between Australia and Hongkong to sue Australia, not that Hongkong has any importance for their cigarette selling or the production. The letter Corp. was the pretext to misuse such an agreement to sue against laws that protect Australian citizens). Deregulation of finance enables speculation and allows the transfer of higher and higher profits to tax heavens. These tax heavens are useful for tax dodgers and for organized crime - and for the regime changing government agencies. . The politicians did the bidding of Big Biz - they were either fooled by them and were uncritically eating up the fancy buzzwords from the 1980s on - or they knew what they were doing and colluded. So Chuka: is it just uncritical repetition of what you have heard - and you never THOUGHT ABOUT it ? - and what it the use of "getting an education" and no doubt having a lot of staff and reserach resources, if you cannot figure that out ? The neoliberal agenda of course also hijacked the MSM and also to a large degree "reputable", well financed academia - for instance in economics. Only after the financial crisis they got some backlash from the outsiders (who were always there but until then were ignored. From then on they made themselves heard better - mostly with the help of books and the internet). Thanks to the Mainstream Media one can hear the buzzwords, the misleading explanations, the matter of fact claims (which are wrong), the unprecise juggling with terms all the time. For instance export, international trade and globalization is usually conflated by the audience. And by most journalists and politicians as well. Once people START THINKING about them, they usually are aware that these are different things. So they are kept in the stage of not even thinking about these terms, are being fed with bullet points and buzzwords and - taking those claims so much as a given that they do not think about them.. It is a little bit like with religion. When you heard the stories from childhood on the obvious contradictions will escape you - because you take the information as "a given". The fuzziness is certainly intentional - by the think tanks who came originally up with those terms. Lack of precision in definitions and terms of course does not allow the audience to grasp the essence of the idea, of what is going on. And the public is not supposed to UNDERSTAND the difference between international export (which can be very beneficial) and globalization. The famous export industry of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Nordic countries grew and flourished under only somewhat free market conditions. A lot of tariffs, protectionism, regulation was going on. Did not hinder them. At. All. No EU, no globalization, no common currency, not even the WTO rules applied at that time. Tariffs, customs procedures, etc.

[@UnKoolKevClay]

Oh Jeremy Corbyn!

[@DanYule55]

This is even funnier to watch considering what happened 4 years later 😂

[@AlfredTheGreatestEver]

evidence that people want a genuine socialist alternative to tory austerity. the left shouldn't be banning things and concentrating on what you can and cant say. the left should be cementing all the modern socialist ideals like the NHS, equal pay for equal work and the equality of the welfare state.

[@p0licenthieves]

Ask the people in the City of London why they vote Tory? What is that guy on?

[@rynonymouss]

the guy at 4:54 not only delivered a brutual line, but looking back was 100% correct

[@lailajannat3163]

thanks all my friends and family.

[@Joker-yw9hl]

John you are a legend

[@sds7870]

Funny watching these videos in hindsight. Like that woman said to the guy who was questioning whether he would be electable.'how do you know'?

[@JuanWild51]

from Paddy Power odds to win next PM Osborne 6-4 Boris Johnson 9-2 Corbyn 7-1 Theresa May 8-1 Javid 12-1 Burnham 12-1

[@stretchmorgan]

Who's the complete knobber at 5.40?

[@JAMAICADOCK]

I hope those little blue cars for the disabled come back. And a new model of the Inner-City 125 is built. And dowdy state owned polytechnics with student grants return. A refreshingly laid back wooliness after the hard, designer, corporate brutality of the last 30 odd years. Which in the end turned out to be all fur-coat and no knickers. All that glistened was not gold.

[@fruitycolax]

That kid was spot on.

[@connord9164]

Immigration is the number one issue for voters. 77% of the country want immigration reduced. How can he win an election when he wants no immigration control?

[@Red_Lion2000]

+Connor D Did you pull that 77% statistic out of your arse? Shame people think immigrants are the problem in this country, when really its privatization and the loss of industry. I suppose the government have to blame someone, like Muslims and the war in the middle east for example.

[@connord9164]

+Cherry Cola No. www.ibtimes.co.uk/bbc-poll-reveals-77-want-immigration-cut-1431288 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/11816808/Immigration-is-the-publics-biggest-concern-poll-says.html

[@p0licenthieves]

+Connor D I want immigration reduced but would still vote Corbyn. Disagreeing with 20% of a PM is better than disagreeing with 99%. Besides, Tories love immigration also and it didnt stop them elected.

[@christalbot7527]

+Connor D Corbyn will try to deal with the effects of immigration, no point setting a random cap and then ignoring it. He will try and build new houses, set up better transport links, etc.

[@Jimyharvy369]

Lol Boris Johnson landslide

[@gsfcdy]

"but there's also a gap between some of the people over there and reality " what's he trying to say?

[@lewisdavey466]

All nutters

[@FB-xb9vz]

Conservatives🌳