Social media was dominated at the weekend with pro-Corbyn hashtags, as loyal supporters continue struggling to move on past the ‘denial’ stage of grieving. Tommy Corbyn got in on the action, quote tweeting a clip of the great leader’s infamous Glastonbury speech. According to Tommy, after the speech:
“one of the Glastonbury staff tapped me on the shoulder and said “you know he just got a bigger crowd than Rihanna””
Unfortunately for Tommy, Rihanna has never played Glastonbury. It seems young Tommy Corbyn might be wrongfacing his black female artists – perhaps with Beyoncé having performed at the stage in 2011 to a crowd of 175,000. Tommy, as the lady sang; “Ooh na na, what’s my name?” Beyoncé or Rihanna…
Seventeen years before Jeremy Corbyn addressed the masses at Glastonbury, Boris Johnson delighted crowds with a brief performance of the Iliad, as well as a walkabout tour with Billy Bragg. In his walkabout he met nudists, declaring “I fully support your right to be naked, I’m right behind it” and praised entrepreneurial attitude of attendees “I just saw someone selling mushrooms. This is capitalism, this is commerce, this is the triumph of right wing ideology!” Boris came away from the experience identifying attendees as natural Conservatives…
“I think these people represent a strong libertarian ideology. In fact I would say that there are a lot of natural Tories here. These people who have taken their lives into their own hands, they have arrived here under their own steam, they have paid £87, they have pitched their own tent! Isn’t that a metaphor for what conservatism is?”
Boris there, being party political Glasto on Friday 23rd June, 2000. Before it was cool…
Turns out Jezza and Tom Watson were showered with freebie Glasto tickets. Corbyn – who spoke on the main stage at the event – received two free tickets from the organisers at a total value £476 via “a member of his family“. Watson had it even better, wangling a total of five free tickets paid for by Live Nation, an American events firm based in Beverly Hills. Watson’s fistful of tickets came to a total value of a whopping £2,445. Sheffield Heeley Labour MP Louise Haigh also had two free tickets, paid for by Michael Dugher’s lobbying group UK Music (total value £900). John McDonnell, who branded the Grenfell fire “murder” at the festival, didn’t declare any Glasto freebies. While their middle class fans paid thousands, Labour’s headline acts went Glaston-free…
