Jeremy Corbyn
👤 Speaker
857
total appearances
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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Jeremy Corbyn
Hugo Chavez, he came to Britain, invited by Ken Livingstone when he was mayor of London.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Jeremy Corbyn
And so Chavez does a meeting in Camden in the town hall.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Jeremy Corbyn
And we were warned he makes a long speech.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Jeremy Corbyn
So we're all sitting there on the stage behind him.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Jeremy Corbyn
And he's spoken for about two hours.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Jeremy Corbyn
Now, I can understand quite a lot of it, but not everybody.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Jeremy Corbyn
So after two hours, he stops and says to Ken, who's chairing it, Ken, I thought meetings in England were usually quite short.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Jeremy Corbyn
And Ken uses very ironic London humour.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Jeremy Corbyn
I thought you were only about halfway through.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Jeremy Corbyn
So Hugo Chavez carries on for exactly two hours.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Jeremy Corbyn
So I'm not sure whether Ken realised he was going to go on.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Jeremy Corbyn
I just thought this was sort of, here we go.