Jeremy Corbyn: The Unsmearable Man

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Clippings Autumn 2018

2 min readNov 28, 2018

The leader of the new socialist leaning Labour Party has had a fruitful and successful last few years. From being a long standing MP of 35 years, and now also the Labour party leader for 3, he has transformed a broken party to the massive over 540,000 member strong movement it is today.¹

The entire audience of the pyramid stage of Glastonbury chanting “Ohh Jeremy Corbyn” for 20 minutes before him speaking in 2017.²

But for someone that’s such a threat to the Conservative Government, and the billionaires that own 80% of British media³, it’s obvious that Mr Corbyn will no doubt have his unfair share of smears, lies and outright bizarre articles made about him in attempts to undermine him and his policies.

To name a few:

He hates McDonalds because it’s American.⁴
He doesn’t support the England football team.⁵
He met a Communist spy during the Cold War.⁵
He’s a Marxist extremist intent on bankrupting Britain.⁵
He thinks the death of Osama bin Laden was a tragedy.⁵
His ancestor was a “despotic” master of a Victorian workhouse.⁵
He rides a Communist bicycle.⁵
He wants Britain to abolish its Army.⁵
He stole sandwiches meant for veterans.⁵
He complained that Jihadi John had been killed.⁵
He kept his hand in his pocket when singing the national anthem.⁶
He played Pokemon Go.⁷
He has an ex-fishmonger as his style guru.⁸

There are many many more. Just search his name in any right wing tabloid site and you can be sure that you will find a half arsed baldfaced lie with more grammar mistakes than your Facebook posts from when you were 13.

It has become such a meme now that even the hashtag #SuggestACorbynSmear went viral in 2015.

But what has this done to Corbyn’s reputation you may ask? Turns out, not a lot. He is still up in the polls, beat two coups brought on by the Blarites⁹, and right now as I’m writing this, it most likely to take the role of Prime Minister¹⁰.

Smear campaigns are a highly effective way of ruining a politician’s career. They can change very important votes and expose people for fraudulent doings and abuse of power. But Jeremy Corbyn? He continues making his homemade jam, tending to his London garden allotment, and fights for the British people that don’t have a voice.

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Jeremy Corbyn: The Unsmearable Man

Written by Laine Slater