‘Corbyn is too quiet,’ say his critics. Have they never bothered to read his Twitter feed?
Jeremy Corbyn [Image: Russell Cheyne / Reuters.]
Silly, silly person.
Yesterday, This Writer got around to checking Mr Corbyn’s Twitter feed. Based on my commenter’s claims, I expected to see very little, other than perhaps a few virtual tumbleweeds, drifting past in the metaphorical wilderness.
Here’s what I saw instead:
Police budgets cut, social care cut, school budgets cut, our NHS cut. It doesn’t have to be like this. pic.twitter.com/JrmtemJbF5
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 5, 2017
Instead of a country run for the rich, we can create a Britain where all of us lead richer lives. pic.twitter.com/p8z6SHrRed
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 5, 2017
Tories promised to be the “most family friendly Government we’ve ever had”. Research released today shows otherwise. https://t.co/N9UrcRhBQp
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 5, 2017
The next Labour government will make sure children get the best start in life, and give families the help they need. https://t.co/QUiaKDOQeR
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 5, 2017
Ken Livingstone’s comments have been grossly insensitive, and he has caused deep offence and hurt to the Jewish community. pic.twitter.com/1kPuEtpme8
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 5, 2017
The Tories promised to be the “most family friendly Government we’ve ever had”. Is that why they’ve slashed Sure Start centres? #StandingUp pic.twitter.com/XFrVsl1Jm0
— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) April 5, 2017
Air pollution is now so bad our children are suffering while the Tories just run our country down. It must stop https://t.co/s6LccyrGDy
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 5, 2017
My thoughts on @CadburyUK? I think it's a disgrace that publicly-owned RBS financed Kraft's purchase of Cadbury who then laid off UK workers
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 5, 2017
We share values with the Filipino people, not Duterte https://t.co/5lUFgHmFQd
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 5, 2017
Tomorrow, the Tories will hit Britain with another barrage of benefit cuts – and it's the poorest who'll lose out.https://t.co/zXU5YJZwYt
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 5, 2017
We have a housing crisis and this is a farce https://t.co/0cmVyYReiK
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 5, 2017
Labour would go much further, using pay ratios, to tackle runaway inequality and extreme high pay. We must do ithttps://t.co/0GbDfdsCiD
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 5, 2017
Closer defence ties? The current relationship is damaging to people of both countries & exports insecurity to world https://t.co/tsh4iCIZQo
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 5, 2017
Point made? Or are we now to see claims that it isn’t Mr Corbyn writing the tweets but an aide?
That would be really pathetic.
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His feed doesn’t read as if it were written by an aide.
Meanwhile, in the real world…
“ICM’s regular poll for the Guardian is out today and has topline figures of CON 43%(-2), LAB 25%(-1), LDEM 11%(+2), UKIP 11%(+1), GRN 4%(nc). The 25% for Labour equals the lowest in the ICM/Guardian series of polls, previously reached during the nadir of Gordon Brown’s government in 2009.”
You and your silly polls, Paul!
Haven’t we already told you they’re nonsense?
Didn’t you know Paul that opinion polls are a device for influencing public opinion, not a device for measuring it. Seems like they’re influencing you well, keep up the good work for the establishment.
If you really think that EVERY polling organisation is busily producing very SIMILAR falsified results in order to “influence” people into believing that Labour is miles behind the Tories electorally and so to discourage them from voting for Labour is bonkers. It’s like denying gravity and jumping out of a skyscraper expecting to float and not to fall! I honest to God can’t believe you people. You seem to regard politics like religion and, with enough faith, seem to believe that obviously failing political parties can end up winning elections and moving mountains. My goodness we are in for a drubbing in 2020 folks and no mistake with all of the injustice, pain and misery that will follow some of the blame for which must be borne by Labour for making itself even more unelectable that it was before.
It will give me no pleasure whatsoever to come back to this blog, if it still exists, in three years time, and write: I told you didn’t i?
The trouble with your attitude, Paul, is that you are trying to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Like Peter Mandelson, you devote a significant proportion of your time to undermining the Labour leadership when you could be using it to promote the party’s policies.
Which policies do you oppose? Or perhaps you are going to say you don’t think Labour has any, which is a mealy-mouthed excuse if ever I saw one.
Don’t be silly that’s not what I’m saying at all. What I am saying is that as soon as polls are published, they are used to inform media articles – always in the context of your own political views of course – you inevitably influence those being polled. A statistical own-goal.
For ‘the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth’ follow Jeremy on Twitter x
It’s a sad day when someone has to judge the level of political opposition by a count of Tweets. WTF is parliament for.
I have never used twitter however just reviewing the sample JC twitters I just wish some of these comments were actually in the media which I think would answer some of the critics points that he is not making his political prescence felt. Totally appreciate the media has got a conservative bias and is anti Corbyn maybe it’s time to change Labours PR machine for not delivering the goods. Not sure doing a Trump and just using twitter is the answer to getting the publics attention.
sorry but i do not use twitter. i tried it and found it utterly useless unless you use one liners. im not paying for the privelage to add a few extra words., why cant he use facebook?
This looks like his Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/JeremyCorbynMP/?hc_ref=SEARCH&fref=nf
It wouldn’t matter if an aide did write the tweets, JC is a busy man and it would be a lot quicker to give the bullet points to an aide who could then knock them into tweetable form. That probably *will* become another way of sniping at JC, though, the media literally cannot get enough of those.
Any media git who says Corbyn doesn’t put his message out is redefining dishonesty, they all know very well that Corby has plenty to say but the media neglect their supposed duty to report on it honestly.
That was the irksome thing (well, one of them) about Owen Jones’ weaselly assertion that he’d back a left wing replacement for Corbyn so Labour didn’t lose the election. That is disingenuous guff. The Labour right, media and corporate establishment absolutely will not allow a left wing presence anywhere near power, no matter how media friendly he or she might be.
You think Corbyn has had a rough ride? Wait til an election is called, the all the stops will be pulled out.
you mean as before when underhand means were employed to make sure the cons got in?they have the money to do such things. Labour dont stand a chance if that’s allowed to go on yet again.you cannot win against liars and cheats. mores the pity.(unless you go against all Labour’s principles and get down to the cons level .)