last week Labour's Tristram Hunt announced that he would
stand down as the MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central
he's about to become the
director or the Victoria and Albert
Museum earning north of £200,000
sounds pretty cushy in my view it's a
plum job for a guy who was a complete
plum after all darling Tristram
aristocratic blood no less
once crossed a picket line to give a
lecture on the work of Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels now a by-election in a
Labour seat naturally means that the
media and sadly much of the Labour right
too is going to talk up the prospects
of a UKIP win Labour only have a
margin of 5,000 in the seat well that's because
Tristram was remarkably unpopular
already had the lowest turnout of any MP at
the last general election but they're
very very eager to say that UKIP could
win this with John Harris in the Guardian
going so far as to say that this could be
Corbyn's Waterloo most people in Stoke
don't know who Paul Nuttall is they
don't really know much about his
Catholic fundamentalist Matalan Milo
bargain-basement Breitbart bullshit they
will just look at the guy and say you
look like Adrian Edmondson or maybe
Harry Hill you're a complete wacko when
they hear his stuff on abortion or women's
rights about bullying Muslims come on
let's be reasonable most people aren't this
weird and he's got nothing to say about all
the things that matter pay public
services housing the NHS he wants a
private NHS and I don't know who their
candidates is in Copeland Adolph Mussolini
or something but equally they're
not going to do so great either
that's why Paul Nuttall is not really sure if he wants to
run the seat or not he knows he's about
to get his handed back to him on a plate
that's not the big question
ok UKIP and how they do in Copeland
or in Stoke is not the big question, the big question
for me is why the media again same old
story so eager to hype up the UK Independence Party
and at the same time demean and
diminish Labour under Corbyn or leftist
politics in general but I'll tell you why ok it's
because print media broadcast media
broadly speaking the establishment would rather
politicians like Farage be in a cabinet
than Diane Abbott they would rather Paul Nuttall be in
Parliament than John McDonnell they prefer
the politics of xenophobic ultra
nationalism and let's be honest fascism
to socialism they would prefer working
people to blame migrants for falling pay
than big business they prefer working people
to ask for corporate tax cuts
than to ask for the renationalisation of the railways
or higher minimum wage
that's their preference that's where
their interests lie let's not kid ourselves
let's not bullshit ourselves but I
understand why the Mail the Sunday
Express i understand why these people the
Sun champion UKIP what I cannot
forgive is the Guardian or progressives like John
Harris Polly Toynbee David Aaronovitch you can
guess which Oxford college each went to
I can't understand for my life why they would
big-up the chance of UKIP even in
a seat like Stoke where actually they're
probably gonna get hammered
why would they do that well I'll tell you why
because they can't do
anything but run their mouths they
couldn't run a country they couldn't run a party all they
can do is run their mouths
they're good for nothing
really I've said this stuff about journalists
before and actually it was pretty unfair but
these three in particular and by the way there
are some terrific people at the Guardian not
those three but there are some terrific
people at the Guardian they have no clue and they
always talk about echo chambers and
preaching to the converted John Harris
or Polly or David come with me to Stoke
let's go talk to people and on the doorstep and
let's talk about what they think about
rail privatization or let's talk about
minimum pay or let's talk about housing
let's talk about NHS services
let's do it what do you think they're gonna say
the reason why you don't go to Stoke why you won't come
to me look we can get a little Novara
video team on the case is because you
would have to talk to people who don't already
agree with you all this bullshit all this
mudslinging at Corbyn or people like me
is because it's you it's displacement
you've not persuaded anybody for 25 years
pathetic
ok so John Harris was in Stoke
but he treats it like a fucking safari park it's
like Marwell Zoo "oh what do these racist
Northerners think" ***** persuade them
you're the one who thinks you're so much more
intelligent than anybody else persuade them
build an argument for socialism
no no no no no with this great intellect of yours
fine education two parents were university lecturers
you're talking up UKIP how are you
progressive ahhh
but the people I feel most sorry for
my heart really goes out to them is the people of Stoke
you've been subjected to Tony Pulis
then Tristram Hunt and now potentially Paul Nuttall
how many idiots can the people of Stoke put up with and I think
the buck stops here they're gonna
humiliate Nuttall
they're going to send them with his bags
all the way back to Liverpool
a scouse conservative anything's possible what a
wonderful world in a way right but look my
question is this the media Jesus
regarded I just I can't even make sense of
what's going on here
why are you bigging up UKIP when they
really have no chance they're about to get hammered
fine put it to one side but Paul Nuttall
my boy if you're watching Harry Hill
Eddie Hitler Adrian Edmondson my question to you is
very simple nobody else is going to ask
this except Novara media if you get your
ass handed to you on a plate
will you as leader of the UK Independence party resign?
because
everybody talks about will Jeremy Corbyn resign
he's just won two leadership elections
he got a bigger mandate the second time than the first
time nobody's asking will Theresa May resign
nobody's asking will the loser idiot Jeremy Hunt resign
certainly nobody asks will Paul Nuttall resign
he more than any other political leader in the country
has serious problems right now defeat
in Stoke is I think his Waterloo
the fact that nobody else in the national
media will tell you that tells you
absolutely everything you need to know
about where their interests lie.