Great gag from the TUC. They played ‘Hey Big Spender’ as Jeremy Corbyn arrived to address their conference in Brighton. This was Stormin’ Corbyn’s first chance to reach beyond the Labour party and to address the nation. But he mentioned Britain only in the loosest terms.
‘The whole vision of those who founded the unions and founded our political parties was about doing things differently: that brilliant generation, those brilliant people who brought us the right to vote and brought women the right to vote.’
He meant the late Victorian campaigners who initiated trade unionism and gave birth to the Labour party. But he created the impression that he sees the UK only through the lens of left-wing activism.
It would be foolish to under-estimate him immediately. He revealed that 10,000 new members have joined the Labour party each day since the weekend.
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