Jeremy Corbyn
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manifesto and we had to reprint it after the election because there was still demand for it because it set out in quite a lot of detail a vision of how you deal with industrial, social, environmental, international issues that this country And I think the Labour manifesto in the last election was a bit thin on detail.
manifesto and we had to reprint it after the election because there was still demand for it because it set out in quite a lot of detail a vision of how you deal with industrial, social, environmental, international issues that this country And I think the Labour manifesto in the last election was a bit thin on detail.
And so to suddenly announce that there was £22 billion nobody knew about, well, I find that slightly odd. Because, yes, I'm sure that the outgoing Conservative government wanted to hide things. And they did appear to make, in the six months before the election, a number of unfunded spending announcements.
And so to suddenly announce that there was £22 billion nobody knew about, well, I find that slightly odd. Because, yes, I'm sure that the outgoing Conservative government wanted to hide things. And they did appear to make, in the six months before the election, a number of unfunded spending announcements.
But the idea that it was so large that now affects everything the government does, I think, is an odd way of doing things. It's allowing all your politics to be decided by the outgoing government. Surely we need a bit of vision.
But the idea that it was so large that now affects everything the government does, I think, is an odd way of doing things. It's allowing all your politics to be decided by the outgoing government. Surely we need a bit of vision.
Well, I was proud of the work that was put into it and the detail that was put into it and the sense of vision that was there. It did mean that if there were undecided voters, if you had the resources to do it, you could explain to them exactly what you were proposing to do, which is what we attempted to do. But remember, in that campaign,
Well, I was proud of the work that was put into it and the detail that was put into it and the sense of vision that was there. It did mean that if there were undecided voters, if you had the resources to do it, you could explain to them exactly what you were proposing to do, which is what we attempted to do. But remember, in that campaign,
We started the campaign from a very low point and Theresa May called the election because she thought it would be a walkover for her. We started on 24% and finished on 41%, all built up during the campaign with that manifesto. So I'm proud of what we did.
We started the campaign from a very low point and Theresa May called the election because she thought it would be a walkover for her. We started on 24% and finished on 41%, all built up during the campaign with that manifesto. So I'm proud of what we did.
I've never been called a left-wing grandee before. I'm not sure about this. I'm not sure about your choice of language.
I've never been called a left-wing grandee before. I'm not sure about this. I'm not sure about your choice of language.
It doesn't sound terribly democratic. It sounds like a sort of aristocratic entitlement.
It doesn't sound terribly democratic. It sounds like a sort of aristocratic entitlement.
So you'll work on your messaging, okay.
So you'll work on your messaging, okay.
Let's check the collected works on that and see where it comes out. What it's about is alternative political voices around the country. I stood as an independent and I stood on the issues that we've talked about and put them in both an election address and I produced a manifesto for my own constituency, online version of it. Others stood as independents.
Let's check the collected works on that and see where it comes out. What it's about is alternative political voices around the country. I stood as an independent and I stood on the issues that we've talked about and put them in both an election address and I produced a manifesto for my own constituency, online version of it. Others stood as independents.
My good friend Andrew Feinstein, for example, stood in a neighboring constituency. And we didn't really liaise very much before the election on what we're going to say, but we ended up saying roughly the same thing about housing. social justice, wages, full employment, and environment and sustainability.
My good friend Andrew Feinstein, for example, stood in a neighboring constituency. And we didn't really liaise very much before the election on what we're going to say, but we ended up saying roughly the same thing about housing. social justice, wages, full employment, and environment and sustainability.