About 20 years ago, and a few days after I moved into the house where I still live, I noticed that the Islington Primary School a few minutes walk away was holding a summer fair. As I had a pre school age daughter, who in the nature of things would not continue pre school age for long, I thought I would take the chance to drop around. Have a look. Perhaps buy some buns, if buns for sale. It was basically a fete, with a number of stalls operated by parents, with the objective of raising a bit of money and having some fun. A popular attraction was a pillory occupied when I was there by our local MP. Local both in the sense of sitting for the constituency the school was in and actually just living around the corner. It was Jeremy Corbyn and the school was Ashmount Primary. So there he was, standing in a pillory, and for a small fee one could buy some wet sponges and throw them at him. Not, perhaps, a bad preparation for the job he now holds.
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If you want links to find evidence of the above, a few minutes on Google will provide all the evidence that you need.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/jeremy-corbyn-poll-numbers-v-ed-miliband-2...
Jeremy Corbyn is much more popular with the voters than he is with his enemies in the press, the copycat TV, media and a minority in the Labour Party.
Having said that the Oldham bye election will be interesting as it will, based on the previous, general election, be a contest between Labour and UKIP.
First McDonnell:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6ec89ff6-5acd-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html#axzz...
“It’s about time we started honouring those people involved in the armed struggle. It was the bombs and bullets and sacrifice made by the likes of Bobby Sands that brought Britain to the negotiating table. The peace we have now is due to the action of the IRA.
Because of the bravery of the IRA and people like Bobby Sands we now have a peace process.”
At a meeting to commemorate IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, May 2003
Now Milne: http://www.sunnation.co.uk/new-labour-comms-chief-praised-armed-resistan...
I chose the Sun as a deliberate provocation, but these quotes are so widely known, I am surprised that you don't seem to be aware of them.
I am also slightly bemused by your apparent view that the views of the opposition are of no relevance unless they become the government, as every government implements policies developed in opposition. Which is what Michael Gove did. And clearly I cannot comment on sources if you decline to say what they are.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/jeremy-corbyn-poll-numbers-v-ed-miliband-2...
I would like to see/read a bit more of Lucy Powell, the Shadow Education Secretary. She has had long enough to master her brief by now and should be making an impact. Given the truly dire performances of her two predecessors it is bound to be an improvement.
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