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Aimed at the Wrong People?

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Jalima1108 Mon 26-Jun-17 16:27:31

Was Jeremy Corbyn's speech at Glastonbury aimed at the wrong people?

The well-heeled and privileged people who paid £238 each for their tickets, teepees or glamping extra, running into the thousands of £, cheering him on and lauding him are not the disaffected living in poverty whom he champions. Do they not see the irony in this as they go back to their middle-class comfortable lives, recycling their rubbish and urging us to 'look after the planet'.

This is from last year but I am sure it is just the same this year. Brand-new tents left behind, mounds of rubbish to be cleared up by others - who cares who clears it as long as they don't have to soil their own hands. Someone will do it - probably on a wage less than a quarter of what most of them will earn.

'Takers of the system' as the commentary says:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y70LCoK-XMA

And the fence - the fence!! Perhaps Donald Trump could take a lesson on how to build a huge fence to keep out the hoi-polloi, the less than desirable who cannot afford a ticket.

Who said that Glastonbury is 'The Most Bourgeois Festival on the Planet'? Was it someone from Iron Maiden? Can't remember now but I do remember someone mentioning it.

Oh, the irony.
Obviously Jeremy Corbyn didn't understand that, nor did the crowds he was addressing.

paddyann Mon 26-Jun-17 22:26:45

lots of young folk buy their tents from Asda etc at £5 ,all the tents left behind are sent to charities for use in refugee situations or they were at T in the park ,so I dont think Glastobury is any different .TICKETS WERE SAVED FOR OR GIVEN AS GIFTS ,I PERSONALLY KNOW 4 YOUNG FOLK WHO GOT THEM AS CHRISTMAS PRESENTS YOU really need to give up on this rubbish you know ,,you all sound( well most of you) like the most miserable grumpy old farts ,thank god ..if there is one I'm nothing like you.Shame you've all forgotten how it is to be young ,happy and enjoying life ....

rosesarered Mon 26-Jun-17 22:29:27

Why do you always shout in your posts paddy ? Are you always angry?

Anniebach Mon 26-Jun-17 23:00:32

So you know of four tickets were given as gifts, Paddyann, think there were more than four there

suzied Tue 27-Jun-17 05:21:26

Please don't rant at festival goers for being wealthy, lazy, dirty, too left wing etc. I'm sure some of them are/ some not. Lots of people love festivals, race meetings, concerts each to their own. No, people shouldn't drop litter and should take it home but as long as there are bins/ clean up provisions in place at such events then all well and good. One of the good things about this country is that we allow people to enjoy themselves at a variety of organised events. Festivals, concerts, sporting, theatre etc Some are expensive, some less so . Lots of people I know save up like mad for Glastonbury as they love it so much. Good for them.

Luckylegs9 Tue 27-Jun-17 05:47:58

Your post was spot on Jalima, factual and to the point. I think people should spend their money as they want, if they can afford the festival, good. It is the utter hypocrisy of Corbyn and his rich socialite followers that is hard to take, they wouldn't know hardship if it bit them on the you know where.. The young don't appear to see the irony of what he does.

whitewave Tue 27-Jun-17 07:02:11

So following that logic, the only people entitled to speak at Glastonbury are rich Tories?

This is all nonsense and even more hot air
A lot if loud protesting going on rather on the lines of the Fail

suzied Tue 27-Jun-17 07:09:35

So you have to be poor to want a more equal society?

NannyMcPhU Tue 27-Jun-17 07:29:39

I can't wait for Corbyn to be in No.10 if only to see the likes of Luckylegs9 spluttering into her tea with rage grin

nightowl Tue 27-Jun-17 07:34:19

So far it seems that the digs at Corbyn include the fact that he appeals only to:

The young who are blinded by his Messiah like qualities and who want the world on a stick

Stupid old women who want to throw their bloomers at him

Rich socialites confused

The poor because they think he will give them everything they need

(But not those racist poor who support UKIP)

Oh and of course momentum who are pulling his strings. No one on here actually seems to have any direct knowledge of momentum but they fear it anyway.

Just listen to yourselves, 'sour grapes' springs to mind.

whitewave Tue 27-Jun-17 07:34:57

nanny with friends like the DUP i suspect thats yet another bridge the Tories have burnt.

Corbyn has just moved a further step towards No 10

rosesarered Tue 27-Jun-17 07:55:50

nannyMcPhu.........perhaps Luckyand others enjoy the thought of you spluttering into your tea with rage right this moment.wink

whitewave Tue 27-Jun-17 07:59:40

I don't think that nanny is spluttering with rage, but like me has a wide grin of optimism and hope for a better future and relief from this evil government

NannyMcPhU Tue 27-Jun-17 08:00:29

Not a tea drinker rosesarered but at this moment I'm very content that Labour are in the ascendancy. I'll be happy to splutter into a nice single malt though if the Tories are re-elected in the next GE, about in 2019 by my reckoning, at the latest.

smile

rosesarered Tue 27-Jun-17 08:04:25

There will have been much spluttering with rage over the GE as Corbyn lost it,
A fact that a lot of posters seem to conveniently forget.

rosesarered Tue 27-Jun-17 08:06:07

Labour in the ascendancy? Really? They are still sitting on the Oppsition benches.

NannyMcPhU Tue 27-Jun-17 08:06:21

And May managed a Pyrrhic victory .

rosesarered Tue 27-Jun-17 08:07:21

Still, I will leave you with your dreams.wink

whitewave Tue 27-Jun-17 08:08:39

You are joking!!!!!

May had a lead of 20 points. Corbyn was consistently trashed by the media. At the beginning of the election campaign no one thought Corbyn had a cat in hells chance.

But he overturned that lead completely, in fact given a couple more weeks and more exposure to his policies he would have won.

It was a brilliant result - given the lies and evil press. And false facts!!

rosesarered Tue 27-Jun-17 08:10:05

Oh, come on!
Corbyn ran a good campaign and still lost, May ran a terrible campaign and managed to still come out with better numbers ( imagine if she had run a good campaign!)

kittylester Tue 27-Jun-17 08:14:08

Quite!

NannyMcPhU Tue 27-Jun-17 08:15:48

There was nothing to stop her running a 'good campaign' except her inability to judge the mood of the electorate.

No 'magic money tree' she dared to tell a nurse on national TV. Well she's found the magic money tree to buy 10 votes grin

whitewave Tue 27-Jun-17 08:18:04

And your point is rose?

Can you point to a single opposition who started the election campaign 20 points ahead and achieved what Corbyn achieved?

As for the Tories sniggering about Corbyns spending plans -what price that sniggering now when they have suddenly found another £2.5bn

What rot!!

rosesarered Tue 27-Jun-17 08:23:14

Don't you mean 20 points behind?
And I think that Corbyn had plans to borrow spend much more than that.

whitewave Tue 27-Jun-17 08:27:24

How much rose?

NannyMcPhU Tue 27-Jun-17 09:31:03

Yes, Corbyn was going to spend on public services by raising taxes for the rich and corporations. That's not borrowing.