Corbyn!
Few British politicians get to hear their names
turned into a chant.
For his supporters, Jeremy Corbyn represents
hope.
The triumph of the principled and mild mannered.
If you are going to be stuck on a desert island for
the rest of your life, Jeremy would be denial deal person -- an ideal
person.
He has always been very easy PC.
To his challenge he is a alternative to buttoned up politics.
They love the accidental nature of his leadership.
For the first time in my lifetime at nearly 30 that
another option has come along.
I would rather have someone who does
not know where the cameras to be honest and he says something
genuine.
Thank you berry much for coming here today.
For some, facing the supporters and not the cameras
is the heart of what is wrong with his leadership.
He accidentally fell into a field of politics he had not
worked in before.
He worked in protest.
You gather a small band of people who agree with you.
Corbyn had no real experience.
Too long marches of the left, that is heresy.
He chose politics, he went on a lot of protests but so did most of us
over our lives.
It is not protest or politics, protests are part of
politics.
Gooseberry nice of you to waste three hours outside my house,
goodbye.
He has represented the same constituency for their ideas, North
Islington where he boasts that 70 different languages are spoken.
He says not going to university means
he is more at ease with everyone.
One Shadow Cabinet member says his capacity for small talk is endless.
My dad said stick with Labour you will always get a job.
Not now, Jeremy, it is bingo.
He does not buy the traditional model of leadership.
It is not my way to try and control the way people do things.
I want people to come together, come
together with ideas and come together in enthusiasm.
He goes into the meeting and says I do not want
to lead you, I want you to lead me.
An awful tough punters would find that baffling and hippyish.
We have had leaders who have not listened to
the people and it has resulted in some calamitous mistakes.
I want asked not to be only political
party, a movement which wants economic change, the want social
change, that once housing and railways, all those things, it is
also about the cultural imagination of people and unleashing that
imagination and giving them the space for it.
He is probably a Marxist in the sense he takes the
Marxist analysis of capital but I would very much doubt he would go
with the prophetic historical destiny parts of Marxism whereas
some of the entourage really would.
They still believe in a biblical interpretation of Marxism.
I think Corbyn has moved to a more woolly
idealism, a rainbow coalition of the left idea.
He is quite a 60s child where the Marxism gets mixed in with
a whole load of other slightly unrealistic things.
You did not see excited rallies when Jeremy Corbyn
campaigned in the EU referendum last summer.
These low-key and infrequent outings helped trigger the uprising
when 75% of Labour MPs voted no confidence in their leader.
Got 66% of the Labour vote to vote for
Remain.
We should have got 75%.
I was just pleased that Jeremy had the
intellectual flexibility to change the views he had since the 70s in
the first referendum, to come out of favour, and I am convinced that he
voted to Remain and believed in Remain in the end.
Some of the people working around him who we had
the most difficulty with, probably voted to leave.
His head of strategy Seamus Milne and his long-standing
political ally John McDonnell have shaped Jeremy Corbyn's leadership
more than others.
I have got a story where the cat jumped up and
scratched him and he said, you naughty cat, what did you scratch me
for?
Tried to rationalise it?
What do think John McDonnell would have
done?
He would have kicked the cat!
Someone said Jeremy Corbyn is an idealist surrounded by ideologues?
Something to that?
I think that is quite a good description.
You are the ideologue, you hear is the
idealist?
You cannot split it that way, I have ideals as well.
Makes him a useful front man.
Jeremy is his own man.
What he has is a deep set of beliefs, he is a principled
person, completely honest, absolutely decent.
He listens to you a lot.
We're friends, we listen to each other.
The suggestion is you bowl to him.
That is rubbish.
The Corbyn election tour pours crowds
around the country but with the voters don't follow suit, will be
Corbyn Project, of moving the party to the left, only a year and a half
old surviving?
The right does not want off left in the party at all,
do you I think, get your own party.
I have said that on several occasions.
Still a real possibility?
That could be a possibility in the future.
The other side of the general election defeat it is a
possibility?
Get out, yes.
Expels you and you start your own party?
It will become a centre party, might
even take the Liberals on board, whatever they might want to call
themselves.
And the Jeremy Corbyn moment will have been a brief one in
history?
It will be a brief one because the people of Britain will
have turned down his policies.
This election has come at a moment when
he has barely started on his project of changing policy and personnel?
That is the problem, we were looking at this September, the Labour Party
conference, we would have had a debate about making these changes.
If Jeremy wins, I imagine the conference will rubber-stamp
everything he wants.
If he doesn't, and the party loses badly, Jeremy
Corbyn's allies are telling him to stay in the job, to dare the right
to take him on.
Any challenger, they say, would find them having to bow
to a permanent shift in party opinion.
I am no less principled, I am no less a socialist.
You feel there is a change?
I cannot see it.
A lot of the debate in the media is around personalities.
They are telling you they are not happy with
this leadership?
Some of them.
I don't know about that.
The media debates around personalities, within
the party, the constituency parties and the different structures of
hours, the policy debate
is consensual.
Come
to
ankle jurors Jezza.
His team say he is enjoying
himself at the moment.
And the power
is with
him
or the bitter Labour
opponents tried to overturn his projects.