Tory policies have led us to the stage where you have nurses in the NHS using food banks.
But when you have somebody coming forward saying he will raise the wages of nurses.
Saying he will abolish tution fees in schools (universities), he will raise minimum wage,
build one million homes, half of them social housing. This is significant, and this is significant to everyone.
Previously the idea had been that these people are not speaking to us, about us, or for us.
Jeremy Corbyn is a clear exception to that rule. We have a choice between policies which foster empathy,
and policies that foster greed, resentment, estrangement and alienation.
At one point it was legal for children below the age of twelve to work. What changed?
Governments put that regulation on the companies. Companies at the time thought it was a great idea.
They didn't see any problem with children under the age of twelve working.
People fought and struggled for the eight hour day. All of these things were fought for.
But they were fought for and won because there were people in the political elite and the political class
that were receptive to these ideas.
Now Jeremy Corbyn not only is receptive to these ideas, he has been on the frontline of these struggles.
During the Thatcher years you had the selling off of everything from British Airways, to British Rail,
to British Telecom, to British Gas. Vital parts of the British economy.
What that led to was a simultaneous deindustrialisation, closure of coal mines, closure of factories.
The impoverishment of huge communities which relied upon those places for their daily bread.
Jeremy Corbyn is a glitch within that matrix
because he does not perceive public services the same way that the rest of the political class do.
While these oligarchs focus on demonising Jeremy Corbyn, on ostracising him,
on otherising him from the political class, these are already media instituions
which are invested and have spent decades invisiblising the dissent that Jeremey Corbyn represents.
So why would it be a suprise that when somebody enters into the fray in the way that Jeremy Corbyn has
that they would stop at absolutely nothing to ultimately discredit him;
that he is quote on quote "weak on defence." Now what do they mean by "weak on defence?"
You have Theresa May haranguing him upon the issue of the use of nuclear weapons.
Would you be willing to use nuclear weapons if you knew it would kill 125,000 people,
within seconds as it did in Hiroshima? And she said "yes I would be willing to."
A willingness to pursue that application is somehow the measurement of ability to govern a society.
Now this is quite an insane notion, because what we have seen is the depersonalisation of violence,
and the depersonalisation of killing. You have a political candidate who is not allowing his foreign policy
to be dictated by military industrial complexes. That he is not willing to percieve the United States
as some type of sacrosanct guide in terms of foreign policy. I personaly view that as strong defence.
Reliance on the United Nations, on international understanding, rather than the swiftness
to projections of very sophisticated destructive forms of violence.
We have the chance to vote Jeremy Corbyn into 10 Downing Street. Now that is something that I absolutely
unflinchingly support. That I absolutely unambiguously am calling on everybody who's watching this to do that.
To register to vote by the 22nd of May, and on the 8th of June cast their vote for Labour.
Because what it will mean, with all of the problematic legacies of the Labour Party, you have within it
the seeds of radicalism. But more over, you have within it wide open ears to those struggling on the front lines
of the protests for social justice. And it is that reason I wholeheartedly support Jeremy Corbyn.