This year's Jezfest

[If it be your will]

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[bfcjg]

Free tickets and let's face it for a few glorious hours unless the stewards and fencing are useless the beleaguered good people of of our glorious capital city dont have to worry about mopeds.

[Top Claret]

Couldn't think of owt worse than spending a day with a sad set of losers. Can you imagine them all with their posh public school accents feeling sorry for the poor working classes

It would be like spending a day in cuntsvill

[AndrewJB]

I'm no Corbyn fan,but i'm ambivalent towards this event,i don't understand who Labour are aiming this festival at,when the reporter was on Sky News earlier,he stated that many young people/students,public sector employees and middle-class attendees were there but hardly any traditional working-class Labour voters,another mistake was hosting the gig in North London i know it's Corbyn's home-turf but already many Northern English voters feel Labour is too London-centric.

I think that when it comes down to it, Labour best appeals to working class voters by creating a climate in which they can have improved lives. More social housing, better funded education and health service, investment in the economy to create good jobs, end to austerity, taxing the rich more, and taking back control of railways and utilities from foreign ownership. In short all the things the Tories aren’t doing for working class people.

[Damo]

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[Bordeauxclaret]

Couldn't think of owt worse than spending a day with a sad set of losers. Can you imagine them all with their posh public school accents feeling sorry for the poor working classes

It would be like spending a day in cuntsvill

Surprised they didn’t ask you to headline.

[randomclaret2]

Im sure the little lad in the red t shirt posts on here...

[randomclaret2]

John McDonnell just running through his routine there...

[tiger76]

I think that when it comes down to it, Labour best appeals to working class voters by creating a climate in which they can have improved lives. More social housing, better funded education and health service, investment in the economy to create good jobs, end to austerity, taxing the rich more, and taking back control of railways and utilities from foreign ownership. In short all the things the Tories aren’t doing for working class people.

Agree on AFFORDABLE social housing the key word being affordable,education and health already receive record funding the key is to ensure that funding is effective,the economy will shift again for the next generation from manual jobs due to automation taking the place of people,the major growth areas are likely to be in skilled trades like I.T and engineering,rather than the service and manufacturing fields,so it is vital that schools have the latest technologies,the issue with taxation is where do you start putting higher earners into a higher bracket, bringing railways back into public ownership could be viable long-term once the current franchises expire.

In fairness to Corbyn he is at least is offering a choice,all i can recall from the Conservatives 2017 manifesto are the flawed social care proposals and grammar schools,hopefully once the dust settles from brexit we can start having a proper political discourse in the country.

[bfcjg]

John McDonnell just running through his routine there...

He's like the Roy Orbison song "Anything you want you got it"

[SammyBoy]

I think that when it comes down to it, Labour best appeals to working class voters by creating a climate in which they can have improved lives. More social housing, better funded education and health service, investment in the economy to create good jobs, end to austerity, taxing the rich more, and taking back control of railways and utilities from foreign ownership. In short all the things the Tories aren’t doing for working class people.

This probably sums it up, actions speak louder than words with 'traditional' Labour voters, Labour Live is probably an attempt to keep the youth vote engaged.

[bfcjg]

This probably sums it up, actions speak louder than words with 'traditional' Labour voters, Labour Live is probably an attempt to keep the youth vote engaged.

Shame it didn't start at fourish then as the yoof, the same yoof who couldn't be bovered to vote to stay in the EU get up.

[SammyBoy]

Shame it didn't start at fourish then as the yoof, the same yoof who couldn't be bovered to vote to stay in the EU get up.

Have you had a few flagons of ale tonight?

[bfcjg]

Have you had a few flagons of ale tonight?

Not since I was yoof no, but that was 40 years ago. Woodpecker cider was my yoof drink of choice; what do you think yours will be ?

[SammyBoy]

Not since I was yoof no, but that was 40 years ago. Woodpecker cider was my yoof drink of choice; what do you think yours will be ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBWuDhIv9B0

[Paul Waine]

Report in today's Times on-line

Labour Live: Jeremy Corbyn rallies a few, then the many

Lucy Fisher, Chief Political Correspondent (6:00 pm)

Glastonbury it wasn’t, but the crowds at Labour Live certainly enjoyed themselves.
Attendees at the music and politics festival known as JezFest gave in enthusiasm what they lacked in numbers.
The party’s jitters over sluggish ticket tales prompted a spree of giveaways, “donated” passes and slashed prices at the eleventh hour. It worked, up to a point, with 13,000 of 20,000 tickets taken by mid-afternoon.
Free coach travel put on by the party, much to the chagrin of regional branches forced to pick up the tab, also helped to swell the ranks, with party supporters bussed in to north London from as far as Newcastle.
While the music stage, which hosted an original Sex Pistol, attracted a crowd only two deep in the first few hours, the talks and panels in another area were well attended.
“It’s like a socialist Hay festival!” beamed a Labour aide, gesticulating to the rammed Literary Tent and children running happily around a wigwam. An event with the shadow ministers Dawn Butler, Barry Gardiner and Ian Lavery was among the most popular, competing with the poet Potent Whisper next door.
Len McCluskey, head of the Unite union, doled out ice creams and festivalgoers knocked back a Trade Union pale ale sold by the Workers Beer Company.
Pizza and burgers crowded out the vegetarian cuisine favoured by Jeremy Corbyn, but Labour values were found in Mazi Mas, a kitchen run by refugee women offering the “global flavours of modern London”.
Mr Corbyn was followed around the ground at White Hart Lane by a circle of fans chanting his name, and the cheers went up again as he took to the stage this evening. It was reminiscent, in mood if not scale, of his rallying cry from Glastonbury festival’s Pyramid stage last summer.
The Labour leader proved a bigger attraction than the middle-aged man on the main stage who sang: “Gonna kick those posh boys up the a**e. You toffs, you can naff off back to Eton!”.
It was not until the Magic Numbers, an indie-pop band whose heyday was the mid-2000s, took to the stage that the crowd began to grow.
The chart-topping Clean Bandit, headliners unveiled at the last minute, were also expected to draw a significant crowd.
Labour was forced to slash the price of tickets from £35 to £10 in the final 24 hours before the festival amid fears of a low turnout.
With just ten days to go before the event only 3,000 of 20,000 had been sold, according to insiders, prompting the party to release some tickets for free. Trade unions were also asked to step into the breach and buy up swathes of passes for members.
The move prompted demands for refunds from party supporters who had already paid £35 to attend.
A code for free tickets that was supplied by Unite for its members was widely shared among non-Unite Labour supporters and even some young Tory activists thinking about attending as a stunt.
Some jokers entered the code to secure free passes for Kim Il-sung, Tony Blair and Trotsky — posting the tickets in those names online.
The event was heading for losses of more than £1 million, according to party sources earlier this month.
The failure to secure top-tier music acts was blamed for slow sales and party staff were accused of bungling approaches to potential artists, including the grime star Stormzy.
A Labour spokeswoman said: “Labour Live has been a fantastic day. We’ve brought people together from all walks of life to have a good time to enjoy the acts and family entertainment and discuss how we can change our society for the better.
“The tents have been packed all day and there has been a great atmosphere. This is the first event of its kind organised by a political party and we have demonstrated how politics can be opened up to a wider audience and to people who have been shut out for far too long.”

[bfcjg]

Ohhh Sammy you naughty little tinker.
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[Paul Waine]

And, another view of the "big event" from the Sunday Times (again, on-line);

Labour Live report: Not many here for the beer as Jezstock gets flat reception

The party’s much-hyped festival yesterday cleared the ‘embarrassing’ threshold — but only just

If you book them, they will come. Unfortunately for Jezstock — or Labour Live, to give yesterday’s seemingly doomed festival of pop and politics its proper name — “them” turned out to be the chap who won The Voice UK in 2014 and the shadow chancellor.
Shadow Chancellor would, in my view, be a good name for a grime MC. But, no, this was the actual John McDonnell.
Until the last moment, “they” threatened to be the few, not the many. Thus the £35 ticket price was slashed to £10 last week, when the Labour Live website was still optimistically warning people not to try to sell on their tickets for a profit: “We want everyone to be able to enjoy our festival at a fair price.” Which would explain the 1,000 last-gasp tickets being given out free to Unite members.
In the end attendance at the White Hart Lane rec in north London just about exceeded the “embarrassing” threshold. There were few enough people that the loo queues, split into traditional “male” and “female”, were nonexistent. But I had to wait 35 minutes for a burrito, meaning I missed most of Len McCluskey.
Jezfest was less Altamont, more village fete. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Village fetes are nice things to do on a weekend in June.
The merchandise stall had “Oh Jeremy Corbyn” scarves for £15, Jezza tote bags and “Power for the many” phone chargers. Unite gave out free ice creams, cruelly undercutting the nice couple doing £2 sorbets on the other side of the field. “So that’s what I paid £35 for,” moaned one mum.
Eddie Izzard, whose transition into Anne Robinson seems nearly complete, roamed the site in inappropriate footwear, waving a Labour Live microphone in people’s faces. I definitely prefer his early stuff about drilling cats.
In the kids’ play area, Labour’s future were jumping over miniature steeplechase fences under the supervision of a woman dressed as a suffragette.
I can’t help feel Jezfete was missing a trick by not having a stand selling Jezza’s jams. They could have had a game of Guess the Weight of Tom Watson.
We got the boy wonder Owen Jones, who surprised and delighted the early afternoon crowd in the Solidarity Tent with a skanking set of bass-heavy dub reggae, by which I mean of course he didn’t. The Guardian columnist and Harry Potter of socialism did some ironic whooping, said we were all “obviously here to have a laugh”, then really got the party started by explaining “why trade unions are so important”.
At the Bread & Roses bar, a 330ml can of Trade Union Pale Ale was yours for £4.50. Or, for those not above lining the mega-brewers’ pockets, there was Heineken for £5 a pint. Both ran out at 5pm.
Nowhere, sadly, appeared to be showing the football. I’m sure Jezza would have put it on the big screen if Venezuela had qualified for the finals.
So I thought I’d better watch some bands. Theresa May had been rather mean about the Magic Numbers in prime minister’s questions last week. I think I might have bought their CD in 2005. The Björk-ish Rae Morris got toes tapping between rants about the rights of public sector workers.
Clean Bandit were announced as headliners just days before, saving some face. They’re Cambridge graduates who do the music for M&S adverts. “No place I’d rather be,” runs the chorus to their hit, which wasn’t strictly true in my case.
Most people weren’t here for the music, though. They were here for Jezza. And just after 6pm here he was, under threatening skies, skipping onto the stage (in chinos), introduced by MC Shadow Chancellor (in jeans). We knew he was on his way because “stewards” in hi-vis started handing out tiny flags and beach balls. And they started playing that now-ruined-for-ever White Stripes song. The “Oh Jeremy Corbyn”s were definitely louder at Glastonbury. Not enough people were drunk enough.
There was some mild dissent in the crowd. A Stop Backing Brexit banner was briefly unfurled in the front row.
Young people were promised houses. There was some vague stuff about the NHS and “the markets” and teachers: “I want to see it changed. Changed a lot.” Polite applause reigned.
The biggest cheer was about giving kids music lessons. The already converted got what they wanted — then started streaming out of the gates as Reverend and the Makers plugged away.

[Juan Tanamera]

There were more fans at Rovers town centre promotion celebrations than that picture

No there wasn't.

[Juan Tanamera]

I wish I was rich enough to 'get' this.

[wickdkewlclaret]

[Top Claret]

I was all set to go but couldn't find my donkey jacket

[Imploding Turtle]

I was all set to go but couldn't find my donkey jacket

I think the meme of the day is that it's anti-semites they want, not racists. So you wouldn't have been welcome.

[Bop]

A flop. But a million pound flop. Owch!

A flop’s the last thing you want at a Jizfest.

[evensteadiereddie]

Considering Labour seem to be perceived by all those in the know complete no-hopers in terms of challenging for government, there seems to be a hell of a lot of posters on here still fretting about them.
More nervous, come May's downfall, than they are likely to admit, I suspect.