Paul Mason’s play – starring Paul Mason – was televised by the BBC at the weekend (Channel 4 must have been busy). Just in case you were out on Saturday night, Guido presents a boiled-down version in sixty seconds, preceded by Kirsty Wark’s hilarious introduction. Full Alan Partridge…
The People’s Assembly Against Austerity march in London this afternoon was supposed to be the more presentable sequel to last month’s ‘Day of Rage’. Didn’t quite work out like that. Corbyn, McDonnell, Diane Abbott and Owen Jones addressed a crowd of communist flag waving cranks and demonstrators carrying placards calling the PM and her chief of staff “murderers“.
Imagine making these to go on a demo with and not wondering "Are we the baddies?" pic.twitter.com/0xjJj0luID
— Tom Hamilton (@thhamilton) July 1, 2017
This charming lady carried a placard showing Theresa May’s head impaled on a bloodied spike. She claimed to be a Labour Party member from New Forest Gate. Corbyn described the protesters as “the movement that will win the next election”.
Channel 4 News’ Cathy Newman was spotted in discussion with Paul Mason. Jon “F**k the Tories” Snow sitting this one out?
A standard Saturday afternoon out for Jez…
“If you want a Party that’s in favour of illegal war, form your own Party and get on with it” @paulmasonnews to Progress. Absolute boy. pic.twitter.com/5e61eWdxVM
— EL4C (@EL4JC) June 24, 2017
Speaking at the Progress conference today, Paul Mason told Blairites and Remainers to set up their own party:
“If you want a centrist party, this is not going to be it for the next ten years. If it’s really important to you to have a pro-Remain party that is in favour of illegal war, in favour of privatisation, form your own party and get on with it.”
Labour unity creaking today…
Paul Mason drops the health bomb on the Daily Politics, asking why Theresa May has failed to turn up to Woman’s Hour and local radio interviews:
“Is there something wrong with her? I think we’re entitled to ask, is she unwell? What’s wrong with her?“
After Owen Jones claimed yesterday that May was dodging local radio stations, senior Corbynistas began to speculate that it is the PM’s health that has caused her to hide away. Worth noting that May is appearing on TV on the Question Time special tonight and there is no evidence behind these Corbynista health slurs. As Mason admits, “They did it with Hillary Clinton” – this is straight out of the Trump playbook…
Paul Mason: Tory voters are racist. #Newsnight. pic.twitter.com/UFkK5HHFSZ
— Ben (@Jamin2g) May 5, 2017
That’ll win ’em back.
Vid via @Jamin2g
Following on from the success of his play:
‘MASON’ is a feature length biopic about about the extraordinary life and times of Paul Mason. Directed by Ken Loach (‘CATHY COME HOME’, ‘I, DANIEL BLAKE’) ‘MASON’ tells the remarkable story of an ordinary BBC journalist who went on to fire the starting gun on global revolution. Shot on location at Syntagma Square, Athens, Taksim Square, Istanbul, and Market Square, Leigh, ‘MASON’ reveals one man’s fight to overthrow the neoliberal consensus and build a world of ‘post capitalism’. An intoxicating six-hour feature, ‘MASON’ unravels the complex links between the Arab Spring uprising, Northern Soul music and the rise of Jeremy Corbyn. Grab your leathers and clog-up your gas mask with ‘MASON’ – only in independent cinemas near you.
Popcorn…
There’s Paul Mason, already on stage, wearing a gas mask around his neck. I’ve just been told off for sitting in the wrong seat #kickingoff pic.twitter.com/aYX11c8mNm
— Alice Jones (@alicevjones) March 29, 2017
Paul Mason’s play “Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere” – written by and starring the man himself in the main role – will tonight have its final performance at London’s trendy Young Vic Theatre. Guido noticed that, curiously for such a high profile event, there haven’t been any reviews in the papers. Turns out reviewers have been barred from publishing their thoughts until after the run has finished.
I can’t say any more as I’ve just found out reviews are embargoed til Friday (the day after the run ends)
— Alice Jones (@alicevjones) March 29, 2017
Not sure how you can embargo a journalist from writing a theatre review, but still…
Attendance was also subject to a strict ticket ballot. Some details of the show have, however, emerged:
One of the signs made for #kickingofflive last night ❤ pic.twitter.com/jBZWmNCknB
— Jess Glaisher (@JGlaisher) 30 March 2017
Oo-er…
Paul Mason has been left humiliated after press regulator IPSO dismissed his complaint against The Sun over that famous candid recording at Labour conference. Mason ran to the watchdog after a young freelance reporter overheard him in a Liverpool restaurant loudly discussing his real views on Jeremy Corbyn. Unfortunately for Mason, that young reporter caught him on tape…
“Corbyn doesn’t appeal to the mainstream working class vote. It’s to do with a cultural thing about London. Corbyn goes to England on a bike and cycles round. Working class people go to a leader. He has no cultural references to the way they live.”
On publication Mason exploded on Twitter, ranting about the “scab newspaper” that had ruined his Corbynista street cred. The leather-jacketed lefty lodged a complaint with IPSO, forcing a five month probe. Today, Guido can finally report their findings. IPSO has ruled entirely in favour of the young reporter and entirely against Mason.
IPSO found there was no breach of Clause 10 (preventing journalists from using clandestine devices).
“The images of the complainant were obtained by the use of a mobile phone camera… the photographer had not used a hidden camera, or engaged in subterfuge, to obtain the material.”
IPSO found there was no breach of Clause 2 (right to privacy).
“The complainant, a political commentator, had been discussing politics with a professional contact, and had not spoken about personal or private matters…The publication of the conversation did not represent an intrusion into the complainant’s private life… The complaint was not upheld.”
Guido can now reveal that during IPSO’s investigation:
- Mason claimed the young reporter involved “specialised” in undercover and covert work. Untrue.
- Mason claimed the restaurant where the recording was made was planted with clandestine devices. Untrue.
- Mason claimed the pictures which accompanied the story were taken by a pinhole camera. Untrue.
- Mason claimed the young reporter had broken the editor’s code. Untrue.
These claims from Mason were the angry fantasies of an embarrassed, hypocritical old hack who should have known better than to complain. The truth, Guido can reveal, is that Mason’s unguarded bombast was easily picked up on an iPhone held by a young reporter who simply fancied fried chicken for his lunch. That young reporter did not specialise in undercover work, he was a budding political journalist. He did not plant recording devices around the restaurant, Mason was yakking so loudly that his criticisms of Corbyn could easily be heard by the young reporter and recorded on his iPhone. How does Guido know all this? He hired that reporter…
Jeremy Corbyn’s celebrity guru Paul Mason has written a play called “Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere” about the “outburst of hope and optimism” following the Arab Spring and Occupy movements. The unmissable stage show starts at the Young Vic later this month. Guess who’s the star? Making his acting debut, Paul Mason.
Revealing his acting method to the Standard, Mason says: “I appear on stage telling the story and I walk about the stage remembering lines I’ve written.” MediaGuido may have to become a theatre critic for the night…
Paul Mason, who last year was recorded admitting “Corbyn doesn’t appeal to the mainstream working class vote”, is at pains to say he doesn’t think Corbyn should resign. Immediately…
“by 2020 we need a younger leadership team that unites the left and centre-left around a clear and radical socialist programme… On the left in Britain we need to find a way for the left and centre left to co-exist within the same Labour team, to respect each other’s ideologies and combine their strengths… Corbyn’s lasting legacy should be to build all that…”
Owen Jones has reached tipping point:
I’ll do something this weekend on this, but this is not sustainable.
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) February 24, 2017
Mason and Jones are both close to Clive Lewis…
Sneering Corbyn cheerleader Paul Mason has branded UKIP voters “toe-rags” who would “nick your bike”. Talking specifically about the Stoke by-election, Mason, flanked by the Green Party’s Sian Berry and Guardian columnist Zoe Williams, offers this contemptuous analysis of first-time voters who consider backing UKIP:
“They’re not working class Tories… most of the UKIP people are either people who haven’t voted or have flipped in a radical way from Labour. They are toe-rags, basically. They are the bloke who nicks your bike.”
Arousing nervous laughter from his audience, Mason makes clear he is not joking:
“No, seriously, that’s who it is, it’s the bloke who does all the anti-social things.“
Mason made the comments at a Novara Media event in trendy Hackney last week. He also told the audience he would be going up to Stoke to campaign for Labour. Sure this will go down well on the doorstep…
UPDATE: UKIP has responded to Mason’s diatribe. The party’s Media Spokesman Patrick O’Flynn said:
“Paul Mason has lifted the lid on what the radical left think about long time Labour voters who have lost faith with that party and moved across to UKIP. He thinks they are “toe-rags”, presumably for feeling a sense of patriotism, for feeling concerned about open door immigration and for supporting Brexit.
“Any voters who care about these issues but were pondering whether to still vote Labour have their answer: Mr Mason and the radical metropolitan left think they are scum. We in UKIP understand and share their concerns and will always treat them with respect.”
Sunday: Paul Mason reveals his theory that Fleet Street is conspiring to keep the so-called NHS crisis off their front pages.
Today: NHS crisis on the front page of the Mail, Sun and Times.
Must be a conspiracy to keep Corbyn’s speech out of the news…
Over the weekend Paul Mason emerged from his leather-jacketed midlife crisis to reveal his latest conspiracy theory: Fleet Street is covering up the so-called NHS crisis. Top Corbynista Mason reckons the press are conspiring to keep NHS stories out of their papers so they can please their proprietors and secure invites to Downing Street drinks parties:
Does the theory stand up to scrutiny?
Mason told his followers that journalists at the Mail on Sunday had kept the NHS crisis out of the paper. The truth is the paper ran a major spread across two full pages high in the news section with the sub deck: “Britain’s NHS Emergency”. It featured the pull quote: “NHS is stretched to its limit”.
Mason said there was “No NHS crisis” in the Sunday Telegraph. The truth is the paper covered the story on page two of the news section.
Mason also claimed the Sunday Times had ignored the issue. The paper devoted a large section of is leader column to the story.
Mason said the same of The Sun on Sunday. It covered the story on page two. The NHS crisis was also on the Sun’s front page this morning under the headline “Hospitals in Crisis”, with a spread across pages eight and nine on what it calls the “NHS Hospitals Scandal“.
Mason has so far failed to tweet any of this coverage or admit he was telling his followers a pack of fibs. This must be what the Corbynistas mean by their new Trumpian approach to dealing with the media…
Back in October last year Guido reported that:
“After Unite’s internal elections in 2018 the expectation is that McCluskey, having secured his own re-election, will decide to flex Unite’s financial and organisational muscle to put someone more competent and electable in as Labour’s leader.”
It was pretty much an open secret in Labour Party circles, today confirmed by Len to the Mirror:
“Let’s suppose we are not having a snap election. It buys into this question of what happens if we get to 2019 and opinion polls are still awful. The truth is everybody would examine that situation, including Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell. These two are not egomaniacs, they are not desperate to cling on to power for power’s sake.”
Given the public have made their mind up about Jezza, who might succeed him? Guido is not as sure that about John McDonnell’s lack of ego as Len. Clive Lewis is the preferred option of the likes of Paul Mason – that we know due to the audio exposure of his two-faced support. Guido detects Lewis also has leftie luvvie media support from the likes of Owen Jones. Lewis himself has been publicly shifting his position on two litmus test positions; Trident replacement and immigration. Conventional Labour Party wisdom outside the Corbynistas is that they are unelectable if they don’t shift on these two issues. Remember Lewis was humiliated by Seumas Milne, a humiliation that may prove costly.
Guido wonders if Jezza might not be relieved to surrender the leadership to Lewis. McDonnell on the other hand…
This will all play into May’s general election timing calculations. She will thrash a Corbyn led Labour Party. Will she thrash a younger more vigorous Labour Party leader repackaged as Britain’s version of Obama? Would that prospect have her make an election dash…
There has been much speculation that Paul Mason was sent to the gulag by Jeremy Corbyn after that infamous Sun recording of his candid conversation in a Liverpool bar. In the new Spectator Life, WikiGuido reveals the complex relationship between Mason and the Corbynistas goes far deeper than that. Read the piece on Mason’s reincarnation here…
Curiously Paul Mason’s confidante to whom he slags off Corbyn is the Podemos’ foreign affairs chief, Pablo Bustinduy. Podemos is Spain’s radical left party, where we have just seen the ousting of the rival socialist party leader Pedro Sánchez by his own party. In Spain socialists can apparently organise a coup.
Mason is tweeting all manner of excuses and throwing up all kinds of diversory chaff to cover his embarrassment. His timeline is a joy to behold.
@paulmasonnews we still think you’re dead principled calling for us MPs to be deselected for saying in public what you say in private..
— John Woodcock (@JWoodcockMP) October 13, 2016
The ramifications of this for the Court of Corbyn are magnificent. Milne will now be able to cite Mason’s disloyalty and lack of faith as a means to marginalise him. McDonnell will seethe that an ally like Mason is now without doubt passing him over for the younger, prettier Clive Lewis to be Corbyn’s successor. After Unite’s internal elections in 2018 the expectation is that McCluskey, having secured his own re-election, will decide to flex Unite’s financial and organisational muscle to put someone more competent and electable in as Labour’s leader. That is what Owen Jones means when he caveats his support for Corbyn as conditional….
Paul Mason has been caught on tape by the Sun saying what he really thinks about Jez:
“Corbyn doesn’t appeal to the mainstream working class vote. It’s to do with a cultural thing about London. Corbyn goes to England on a bike and cycles round. Working class people go to Ibiza. He has no cultural references to the way they live”
He is taking it particularly badly:
@tnewtondunn it’s sad that a man with two last names and a hyphen has to employ people to spy on private conversations of other journalists
— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) October 13, 2016
Report for reeducation, comrade Mason…
UPDATE: So what does Mason think should be the punishment for Mason?
Paul Mason: “[Labour MPs] who don’t express confidence [in Jeremy Corbyn] need to be replaced” https://t.co/o4ePetpeaT
— Sky News Tonight (@SkyNewsTonight) September 20, 2016
So far the pro-grammar lobby seems to consist of Trumptards and UKIP. Come on one-nation Tories let’s hear you defend educational apartheid?
— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) September 9, 2016
Formerly impartial BBC economics expert turned top Corbynista Paul Mason is handling the grammar schools debate with his usual calm and reasoned approach.[…] Read the rest
