Jeremy Corbyn&#x27;s remarks on The Sun.....

Original post by NaTaLiiA513

The Sun is utter trash. Nipples, infamous celebrities and a lot of Labour bashing.

You should have seen the things they were saying about Ed Miliband during the 2015 General Elections. I'm not surprised that Corbyn chooses not to read it.

The Sun were in Tony Blair's pocket for over a decade. Anyone who says "they just hate Labour" clearly doesn't know what they're talking about.

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Original post by banoffeee

And it's politics are... left-leaning as the OP said?

Yes but as you say the tabloid readership doesn't care about politics, hell I didn't even twig that the Mirror was left-wing until a few years back

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KimKallstrom

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Original post by ElephantMemory

Murdoch rags are for intellectually inferior idiots who do as told. Do you expect Corbyn to read The Sun?

I'll just leave this here.

If anyone ever needs a quote to illustrate their point about why the left got murdered in elections then this should be it.

A great example of how they're completely out of touch with most people and in utter contempt of them actually. A hell of a lot of people got and continued to be turned off by the snobbiness and contempt for normal people by people like you.

It'll be a long ride for you lot when you begin to join the real world

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Original post by jape

The Sun were in Tony Blair's pocket for over a decade. Anyone who says "they just hate Labour" clearly doesn't know what they're talking about.

They are owned by Murdoch who likes "free" markets, Blair's Labour were no different from the Tories in that regard and in many cases worse especially when it came to promoting rentiership

Murdoch however does not like demagoguery, just money, so his papers don't support UKIP or the Tory right. Non Murdoch right wing papers i.e. Telegraph Express and sometimes the Mail play to the gallery far more on anti-immigration anti-EU etc. Same as the Guardian Indie and Huff Post do on the left

Murdoch press is declining in popularity over the long term as people move away from the Thatcher Blair technocratic consensus and towards political polarisation.

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Original post by scrotgrot

Yes but as you say the tabloid readership doesn't care about politics, hell I didn't even twig that the Mirror was left-wing until a few years back

Someone needs to make them care again!

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Original post by banoffeee

Someone needs to make them care again!

That's the purpose of the vanguard party under Jeremy Corbyn

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ElephantMemory

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Original post by KimKallstrom

I'll just leave this here.

If anyone ever needs a quote to illustrate their point about why the left got murdered in elections then this should be it.

A great example of how they're completely out of touch with most people and in utter contempt of them actually. A hell of a lot of people got and continued to be turned off by the snobbiness and contempt for normal people by people like you.

It'll be a long ride for you lot when you begin to join the real world

It's ironic you are attacking me for a comment that was clearly in jest when the paper i am talking about printed this just before the election:

And that was just 1 of the many attacks on Miliband over the 5 years he was in opposition. But of course it is the left that is extreme and spreading propaganda isn't it?

Milband wasn't even that far left either.

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Original post by KimKallstrom

I'll just leave this here.

If anyone ever needs a quote to illustrate their point about why the left got murdered in elections then this should be it.

A great example of how they're completely out of touch with most people and in utter contempt of them actually. A hell of a lot of people got and continued to be turned off by the snobbiness and contempt for normal people by people like you.

It'll be a long ride for you lot when you begin to join the real world

Snobbish labour supporters don't represent the true left wing anymore than the KKK represents christianity or Daesh does Islam.

That's what's so great about the new left, it's graciousness and class- which Corbyn does have. I don't see why people are saying he was mocking the Sun- all he said was that he didn't read it and we all know that's certainly not about snobbery towards its readership.

People need to stop putting words into others mouths and think before they speak in politics and in life generally - and I'm glad Corbyn has started that trend in politics.

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Original post by scrotgrot

That's the purpose of the vanguard party under Jeremy Corbyn

Haha! I know - I'm a Corbynmaniac.

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Original post by Lady Comstock

This is the problem with the modern left: purport to represent the working man, but at the same time look down on them.

Corbyn doesn't though! This comment has been taken out of context! He never even implicitly criticised its readership, if the man has contempt for anything about the Sun it's about the pro-tory lies they propagate and Murdoch's corrupt and immoral fiscal interests!

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Original post by banoffeee

Haha! I know - I'm a Corbynmaniac.

I will stand with you in the fields of Nuneaton in May 2020 as dawn breaks over a socialist England, and we will lay there the cornerstone for our new Jerusalem

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Original post by ElephantMemory

It's ironic you are attacking me for a comment that was clearly in jest when the paper i am talking about printed this just before the election:

And that was just 1 of the many attacks on Miliband over the 5 years he was in opposition. But of course it is the left that is extreme and spreading propaganda isn't it?

Milband wasn't even that far left either.

Anti-Semitic to boot, same with the North London intelligentsia jibes. They pretend they hate the Muslims these right-wingers but really it's projection, they want to hate the Jews. Doubtless they will project also by calling Corbyn an anti-Semite

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Mr JB

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Original post by jape

The Sun is unique in how dreadful it is. The Mail's just the Guardian of the Right - awful, but only left-leaning people notice. The Guardian is the Mail of the Left, vice versa. There are idiots on both sides, and they both read ****e newspapers.

Its not unique at all. All newspapers and media outlets are full of ****, purporting yellow journalism as the truth and trying its hardest to shape its readerships line of thinking to suit its own political motives. The majority of whats in any paper is complete bull****. If anything, the tits in rags like the Sun are about the most realistic thing in them.

Original post by ElephantMemory

Murdoch rags are for intellectually inferior idiots who do as told.

People who buy papers are generally the same people who are unable to think for themselves and are the same people who are being dumbed down. This isn't exclusive to those who buy Murdoch's newspapers. Anybody who buys into this left wing/right wing nonsense needs their head sorting out, especially the tribalist readers who are about as out of touch with the real world as one can get.

Original post by RobML

If you want to read a tory paper at least read the Telegraph or Times, or something else with actual journalistic and moral integrity.

The mere thought of suggesting any paper has actual journalistic and moral integrity is hilarious. However, then you mentioned both the Telegraph and the Times and it got even funnier. No papers have morals. They are manipulative, exploitive and some will even prey on vulnerable people to get what they want.

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RobML

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Original post by Mr JB

The mere thought of suggesting any paper has actual journalistic and moral integrity is hilarious. However, then you mentioned both the Telegraph and the Times and it got even funnier. No papers have morals. They are manipulative, exploitive and some will even prey on vulnerable people to get what they want.

Yeah, I should have clarified I was only speaking relative to the Mail

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Original post by scrotgrot

I will stand with you in the fields of Nuneaton in May 2020 as dawn breaks over a socialist England, and we will lay there the cornerstone for our new Jerusalem

hell to the yeah

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Mad Vlad

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Original post by United1892

96 Dead, Don't buy the sun.

Were you even alive in 1989?

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