Back to Corbyn pro Remain in referendum

This blog is going round in circles, maybe because the story will turn out to be the same one over several years. I have stopped posting so much as things just repeat but maybe there is a claity phase soon?

Papers review last night seemed to me to include a statement that is just not so. Shaun Ley suggested Corbyn is critical of EU policy on worker rights and environment. Maybe he could suggest changes but the main thing is that Corbyn spoke during the referendum pro Remain based on these concerns. So I recorded this bit for review and comment.

Compare recent statement in Commons, Daily Mail version.

Four minutes in defends EU position on worker rights. This bit has not been widely reported, not at all in print Guardian that I can find.

See previous posts in this blog for what Corbyn said and how reported. the "blame Corbyn" phase was so strong that the actual referendum was forgotten. Not airbrushed out, I have to conclude most BBC reporters have genuinely forgotten.

Comment welcome. Other links? bloggers cannot expect interviews but some sort of retrospective may turn up.

My guess is that most of Westminster / print and TV are in one world , with another outside it until / unless there is an election or something. These gaps in memory are part of it.

Brexit Endgame and UK newspapers

Found this blog through Chris Grey - mainly macro by Simon Wren-Lewis.

Brexit Endgame has a reasonable take on what may happen towards the end of this week.

Note the bit at the end suggesting newspapers have been a crucial influence. There may be more on this, even questions about broadcast media and how far they have questioned the news agenda. Maybe this will be mostly online.

Express take on May and EU, #Reach seems to be curating legacy ok

Recently there was an OFCOM check on how the Reach ( previously Trinity Mirror ) approach to the Express would diminish a plurality of views in UK newspapers. OK so far seems to be the result. More on another blog probably but not sure which one. Come back later..

Today print version of Express leads with "tough-talking" May on EU "risking lives" by not agreeing to her ideas on security.

Page five, third to last para, May added " we will be bringing the Cabinet together within the next week". Other reports have suggested this is quite important as news because the EU cannot work out what the UK priority is until there is more clarity. Readers may miss this bit as there is a headline for Brexiteers who urge "talk trade or quit negotiations" with a photo of Rees-Mogg. They expect a trade deal to be sorted soon as if the £40 billion is not linked to the transition phase.

Reach doing a solid job. No grounds for complaint.

Corbyn on ITV, fact check yourself on YouTube

Nothing posted for a while as things seem to be fixed or going round in circles. But maybe there is something happening fairly clearcut.

Last night in  an unusual chat show following the football there was comment about David Cameron , his role in calling the referendum, and a statement by Jeremy Corbyn.


Seems reasonable to ask Jeremy Corbyn how he voted in the referendum because the reporting since has been so misleading. "Blame Jeremy Corbyn" was so well prepared it was in the press release for the official Labour campaign. See earlier posts in this blog for my take at the time on what Jeremy Corbyn actually said. As in this clip not a "catastrophist" backer of extreme views as in what has been described as "project fear". He has a balanced view but it can be persuasive. Unfortunately for the Remain case he was not much reported and Labour supporters in media circles , influenced perhaps by Lord Mandelson and others, decided to follow the Cameron approach. Lord Darling shared a platform with Osborne to repeat the concerns for UK economy and the City.

So good to see some update on Corbyn. Please view the whole clip.

Meanwhile I look at the websites for Independent and Guardian. Independent at least mentions that Corbyn "insisted he voted to remain in the EU" but the Guardian has nothing on Corbyn at all. Somehow the UK media has managed to obscure what Corbyn said in the referendum to the point where his support for Remain appears unknown or open to question.

Cameron could be asked a question about how the internal problems for the Conservatives caused some risk for the UK.

UK media could be asked some questions about how their opposition to Corbyn has blocked reporting on Brexit.

By the way, all the alarm about the UK economy and the City could turn out to be right. But those worried about this could consider working with Corbyn views if they want political support. Accurate reporting would be a start.

Update on single market and Corbyn

Still looking at newspapers but not much to blog about. also lots of repeats when I do. But there may be news next week re Single Market and votes in Commons.

Quite obscure though, newspapers not leading on this, maybe Brexit is boring or maybe the case for a rethink is going over better than widely supposed.

Sunday Times has a small piece on front page continued  page 2 , policy on Customs Union may change. Mail on Sunday an inside report, there will be trouble if this happens. Notice there is not the welcome you might expect from previously, seems the Mail is as one every day of the week. Not sure about this, not buying papers so often.

Watching Sunday morning telly there was an interview with Nicky Morgan but not much about Labour on this policy. Just my impression but it still seems that knocking Corbyn is the priority for much of the "centrist" reporting. We seem to be heading back to when his leadership started. Maybe I am imagining this but I guess people like Lord Adonis could choose to draw attention to official Labouyr policy on Single Market and make that an issue. I can see why LibDems want to suggest Remainers should vote other than Labour. But if Brexit will be opposed by persuading the people who have supported it so far then maybe Labour is well placed to do so.

I still think Corbyn was effective during referendum, talking about EU as support for environment, worker rights and also discussing policy to support areas with problems around immigration. It may turn out the blog will continue around the same set of topics.

But not looking hopeful from a Remainer point of view, much too metro globalist. Even for a BBC studio.

Has Vince Cable got a point on Empire ?

The Sun attack on Vince Cable suggests he may have a point, not just about racism but an idea of Empire as memory for older voters. Here is a clip of the full remarks.

During EU referendum, what actually happened? #2 Daily Mail

It may be just me but I think the Daily Mail has gone a bit ott. Maybe I do not read it much so it could be like this all the time. But my guess is they are on some sort of energy buzz. Could be the EU situation or maybe press regulation. Tom Watson is in the spotlight.

Saw Channel 4 News last night with interview Max Mosley. "Treachery" headline on editorial page is opinion from Stephen Glover after recent Corbyn speech. Blames CBI, BBC, Japanese owned FT. Some memebers of the ruling class...."pretty treacherous". So the recent spy claims might just involve a missing fact around a sound opinion.

Anyway, main thing that strikes me is the claimed link on page 12, National Action and Thomas Mair, killer of Jo Cox MP through the slogan " death to traitors, freedom for Britain". At the time as memory serves it was mostly online that such connections were made. The newspapers did not much look at right wing politics as background. Some related issues were given much publicity.

Could Channel 4 investigate the content of newspapers during the referendum? Not just the Daily Mail of course, but given the approach in these reports on Max Mosley there are some reasonable questions to ask.

Page 13 explains that the Daily Mail did end support for the Blackshirts and also mentions comparison with the Express, Evening Standard and the Times.