Posted on 09/12/2015 8:17:54 AM PDT by pabianice
Unassuming 66-year-old hardline leftwinger stuns the party by winning on the first round with anti-austerity pitch
New leader named at a special conference where Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall admit defeat
Supporters wept and punched the air, chanting 'Jez we did, Jez we did' as Corbyn delivered victory speech
A total of 422,000 of the 550,000 Labour members took part in the vote, with Corbyn taking more than 251,000
Jeremy Corbyn this afternoon headed straight to a pub with his supporters after storming to victory in the Labour leadership contest, winning almost 60 per cent of the vote in the first round.
In the most extraordinary result in modern political history, the 66-year-old Marxist throwback who has never run anything in his life will now take charge of the party of Keir Hardie, Clement Atlee and Tony Blair...
After thanking the unions, attacking the media, and accusing the Conservatives of 'social cleansing', Mr Corbyn took his supporters to the Sanctuary pub in Westminster for a victory drink where they hailed former socialist firebrand Tony Benn and sang the socialist Red Flag anthem.
Earlier, supporters wept and punched the air, chanting 'Jez we did, Jez we did', after it emerged Mr Corbyn had taken 59.5 per cent of the vote - 251,417 of the 422,664 votes cast - against 19 per cent for Andy Burnham, 17 per cent for Yvette Cooper and just 4.5 per cent for Liz Kendall.
But winning could be the easy part: While he was still addressing the leadership conference, the first resignations from the frontbench emerged as his critics warned he would be a 'f***ing disaster'.
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Though cowards flinch, and traitors sneer
We’ll keep the red flag flying here
The “leaders” are finished. The peasants are revolting.
There, and here.
Feel the Bern/Go Trump
Red Flag Anthem lyrics. To give you some idea.
I’ll note how close the first line of the chorus
is to “Die Fahne hoch” (”The Flag on High”)
Socialist martyers lead the way etc.
The People’s Flag is deepest red,
It shrouded oft our martyred dead,
And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold,
Their hearts’ blood dyed its every fold.
Chorus:
So raise the scarlet standard high.
Beneath its folds we’ll live and die,
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We’ll keep the red flag flying here.
Look round, the Frenchman loves its blaze,
The sturdy German chants its praise,
In Moscow’s vaults its hymns were sung
Chicago swells the surging throng.
(chorus)
It waved above our infant might,
When all ahead seemed dark as night;
It witnessed many a deed and vow,
We must not change its colour now.
(chorus)
It well recalls the triumphs past,
It gives the hope of peace at last;
The banner bright, the symbol plain,
Of human right and human gain.
(chorus)
It suits today the weak and base,
Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place
To cringe before the rich man’s frown,
And haul the sacred emblem down.
(chorus)
With head uncovered swear we all
To bear it onward till we fall;
Come dungeons dark or gallows grim,
This song shall be our parting hymn.
(chorus)
so UK now has a dangerous growing IslamoNazi infestation combined with a communist political leadership
“what could possibly go wrong?”
The good news is GB has a parliamentary system so elections can be called when this marxist really screws things up.
The computer wanted me to capitalize marxist. Not gonna do it.
I wish we had something similar. We could have gotten rid of some of the past and present horrible presidents elected.
Better than that. In a parliamentary system, the party can replace the PM overnight without new elections, if it has a majority.
They’re going to spend their way out of debt. :)
I don’t know who he is or if he’ll ever rise to PM but he can’t be much worse than the Obama-blowing Cameron.
Bump
Jeremy Corbyn is against austerity, wants to negotiate with ISIS and looooves Palestinians. He was singing the socialist anthem at a pub last night.
He is your typical aging hippie college professor.
So the UK will have the choice between Conservative Socialism and Full marxists Socialism. Some choice.
A song for their LINOs (Labour in Name Only)
BATTLE HYMN OF THE NEW SOCIALIST PARTY
(Leon Rosselson)
The cloth cap and the working class, as images are dated.
For we are Labour’s avante-garde, and we were educated.
We feel we ought to drop Clause Four, to make the public love us more
And just to show we’re still sincere, we sing The Red Flag once a year.
Firm principles and policies are open to objections;
And a streamlined party image is the way to win elections.
So raise the red rose on high, the well-cut suit, the college tie
We’ll stand united, raise a cheer. And sing The Red Flag once a year.
It’s one step forward, one step back. Our dance is devilish daring
A leftward shuffle, a rightward tack, then pause to take our bearings.
We’ll reform the country bit by bit, so nobody will notice it
Then ever after, never fear, we’ll sing The Red Flag once a year.
We will not cease from mental fight till every wrong is righted,
And all men are equal quite, and all our leaders knighted.
For we are sure if we persist to make the New Year’s Honours list.
Then every loyal labour peer will sing The Red Flag once a Year.
So vote for us, and not for them, we’re just as true to NATO,
And we’ll be calm and British when we steer the ship of state-O.
We’ll stand as firm as them *
To show we’re patriotic gentlemen *
Though man to man shall brothers be, to keep the bomb’s our policy.
So raise the mushroom cloud on high, within their shades we’ll live and die.
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer, we’ll sing The Red Flag once a year.
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