Corbs at Glasto: For the many?
As with most things in life that divide opinion, it is hard to see both sides of the story until someone else presents you with an opposing view.
When I saw Jeremy Corbyn, Labour-leader-extraodinaire and man of the people, invited out onto the Pyramid stage by Michael Eavis to give a celebratory, heart-warming speech, I was initially surprised and it didn't do anything but put a smile on face. Over the past few months, to my own shock, my head has been well and truly turned by Corbyn and his doting-father demeanour and jolly ways. No, I'm not yet a rich-loving, overzealous leftie, but by being a lot more open to the prospect of a non-Tory government in the lead up to this year's election, I have come to see that Corbyn is, on the face of it, none of the man that the Daily Mail make him out to be.
I don't want to get too bogged down on the politics side of things. After all, there are still many of Jez's policies that I don't agree with. But for crying out loud, a terrorist-sympathise? Not from what can see.
From what I can see, he is simply another one of us, a gentleman who stands up for what he thinks is right, and who is the voice of millions of people across the country. Over everything, he is humble, and isn't that what we want? He wears average clothes, has an average voice, an average haircut - he is well and truly just a bloke, and a likeable one at that.
So when he appeared in photos with a pint in his hand and a grin beaming across his face, surrounded by ardent festival-goers at Glastonbury this weekend, it was quite a savoury moment.
However.
As I began hovering through the torrents of social media comment, my eyes began to be widened a little. Wasn't this just nothing more than an advertising campaign. A big f-you to the Conservatives, a smug bit of gloating in the face of the Conservatives, who after all, did still come out on top? Was it all a bit childish and overzealous? In all fairness, he has the right to celebrate and be proud, but at a music festival?
When Corbyn got on stage and got his opportunity to say his piece, however hard it may be to be admit - it was nothing more than a political speech. And when did Glastonbury turn into this?
A music festival is meant to be about just that - the music. Hell, the 'festival atmosphere' is a big part of it for most people - but I doubt that's something that a political party would want to be associated with anyway, considering the excessive amounts of drinking, drug-taking and other general debauchery that goes on at these festivals in summer time.
Besides, if Corbyn really is setting his sights on whenever the next election may be, he should probably focus more on turning the heads of those he has yet failed to achieve the blessing of; the ones who sway more towards middle class, but still scoff at the ridiculous amounts that students are paying for university tuition these days, and those who still don't want to defect to the red side, but are growing sick and tired of Theresa May, who does herself no favours and does not try to hide her snobby and elitist ways.
The number of politically-charged flags that people were flailing about in the crowd was also quite shocking too - 'Bollox to Brexit' and 'Oh, Jeremy Corbyn' being a mere few of the hundreds spotted amongst the sea of people.
Alright, people can do what they want. It's a free country, right? Yes! But the election is over. Give it a rest, will you?
When I saw Jeremy Corbyn, Labour-leader-extraodinaire and man of the people, invited out onto the Pyramid stage by Michael Eavis to give a celebratory, heart-warming speech, I was initially surprised and it didn't do anything but put a smile on face. Over the past few months, to my own shock, my head has been well and truly turned by Corbyn and his doting-father demeanour and jolly ways. No, I'm not yet a rich-loving, overzealous leftie, but by being a lot more open to the prospect of a non-Tory government in the lead up to this year's election, I have come to see that Corbyn is, on the face of it, none of the man that the Daily Mail make him out to be.
I don't want to get too bogged down on the politics side of things. After all, there are still many of Jez's policies that I don't agree with. But for crying out loud, a terrorist-sympathise? Not from what can see.
From what I can see, he is simply another one of us, a gentleman who stands up for what he thinks is right, and who is the voice of millions of people across the country. Over everything, he is humble, and isn't that what we want? He wears average clothes, has an average voice, an average haircut - he is well and truly just a bloke, and a likeable one at that.
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| Corbyn enjoying a drink with members of the public at Glastonbury festival this weekend |
So when he appeared in photos with a pint in his hand and a grin beaming across his face, surrounded by ardent festival-goers at Glastonbury this weekend, it was quite a savoury moment.
However.
As I began hovering through the torrents of social media comment, my eyes began to be widened a little. Wasn't this just nothing more than an advertising campaign. A big f-you to the Conservatives, a smug bit of gloating in the face of the Conservatives, who after all, did still come out on top? Was it all a bit childish and overzealous? In all fairness, he has the right to celebrate and be proud, but at a music festival?
When Corbyn got on stage and got his opportunity to say his piece, however hard it may be to be admit - it was nothing more than a political speech. And when did Glastonbury turn into this?
A music festival is meant to be about just that - the music. Hell, the 'festival atmosphere' is a big part of it for most people - but I doubt that's something that a political party would want to be associated with anyway, considering the excessive amounts of drinking, drug-taking and other general debauchery that goes on at these festivals in summer time.
Besides, if Corbyn really is setting his sights on whenever the next election may be, he should probably focus more on turning the heads of those he has yet failed to achieve the blessing of; the ones who sway more towards middle class, but still scoff at the ridiculous amounts that students are paying for university tuition these days, and those who still don't want to defect to the red side, but are growing sick and tired of Theresa May, who does herself no favours and does not try to hide her snobby and elitist ways.
The number of politically-charged flags that people were flailing about in the crowd was also quite shocking too - 'Bollox to Brexit' and 'Oh, Jeremy Corbyn' being a mere few of the hundreds spotted amongst the sea of people.
Alright, people can do what they want. It's a free country, right? Yes! But the election is over. Give it a rest, will you?
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