Jeremy Corbyn dragged himself to Yorkshire’s Rhubarb Triangle – that area around Wakefield where they force-grow barnfuls of the stuff every Spring – to ‘explain’ his position on Brexit. He told us that he was going to ‘respect those who voted Leave – and those who voted Remain’. That might, or might not, mean ‘a popular vote’ (ie a second referendum) but he was much keener on a general election.
On winning power he would ‘negotiate’ with the European Commission. We blunt nibs of the travelling circus all duly noted this down. Lord knows why we bothered.
Britain’s problem was not the European Union, declared Mr Corbyn. It was ‘the failed system’.
He was speaking in the carpeted foyer of a firm called OE Electrics. OE for Old Etonian? Or OE of little faith? His audience was an undemonstrative crowd of perhaps 40 OE workers, Labour activists and journalists.
Jeremy Corbyn dragged himself to Yorkshire’s Rhubarb Triangle – that area around Wakefield where they force-grow barnfuls of the stuff every Spring – to ‘explain’ his position on Brexit
For a warm-up artiste we had an MP called Laura Pidcock. Not one of life’s easy charmers, Sister Pidcock. She has Sgt Bilko’s glasses but little of his merriment.
She complained, unmusically, that OE Electrics was ‘quite hard to say in my accent’ (she comes from Tyneside). It might have been better to have asked Wakefield’s MP, Mary Creagh, to do the intros, but Ms Creagh is no Corbyn fan.
Mr Corbyn took his place at the lectern and started to rattle lifelessly through a stump speech about how he stood for ‘the many, not the few’.
The content was so routine, he could surely have delivered it extempore, yet he stuck resolutely to his autocue.
Familiar phrase followed familiar phrase. ‘Theresa May’s deal is a bad deal for the country...We’ll keep all options on the table...The Government has led us from chaos to crisis....Food banks...Jobs...Diane Abbott’ Mornington Crescent!
And then, with a lowering of the volume to squeeze some extra wonderment out of the words, he said: ‘Let’s not lower our horizons. Let’s raise them.’
Earlier in the week there had been hints that this was to be a significant speech which might give us an idea what Mr Corbyn (possibly a secret Leaver) really thinks about the Brexit his party activists so oppose. In the event, yesterday morning’s gathering was a non-event, a morning wasted, an opportunity shelved. He had plainly made the judgment that he needs to say almost nothing and he will become prime minister. Given the damage Dominic Grieve and his Remainer Tories chums are doing to their party, he may be right.
Mr Corbyn took his place at the lectern and started to rattle lifelessly through a stump speech about how he stood for ‘the many, not the few’. The content was so routine, he could surely have delivered it extempore, yet he stuck resolutely to his autocue
And yet our would-be helmsman looked a bit seedy yesterday. January blues? Or have there been raging rows behind the scenes at Labour high command over Brexit?
His right eye kept narrowing in an unusual manner. Perhaps one of the Blairites took a poke at it. Or perhaps it was tiredness. Shades, even, of Chief Inspector Dreyfus in the Clouseau films.
It is some time since I heard so unenergetic a speech from a leading politician. Where was the vim, the inspiration?
Asked about Brexit disgreements in Labour, Mr Corbyn insisted: ‘There is no split on this.’ A palpable porkie!
As evidence of Labour unity, he pointed out that Sir Keir Starmer, his party’s Brexit spokesman, was in the front row. ‘Keir has made it clear,’ said Mr Corbyn. That could almost be the start of a haiku. Ms Pidcock was entrusted with the task of summoning questions from the media, and promptly made a hash of it.
She kept ignoring Channel 4’s Leftie poohbah Jon Snow and he did not find this altogether amusing.
When Snow’s turn finally came, he announced, with all the gravity of an Old Bailey Rumpole, that he had been talking to ‘young people’ and found that they craved a second referendum. Would Mr Corbyn oblige them? Rhubarb rhubarb came the reply.
And this man wants to be our prime minister.
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Main photo article Jeremy Corbyn dragged himself to Yorkshire’s Rhubarb Triangle – that area around Wakefield where they force-grow barnfuls of the stuff every Spring – to ‘explain’ his position on Brexit. He told us that he was going to ‘respect those who voted Leave – and those who voted Remain’. That might, or m...
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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