“I had my first speech outside Number 10 as prime minister all planned out,” Jeremy Corbyn tells me. “I was going to announce homelessness in Britain ends now, next week no-one will be sleeping rough.” He is sitting on a sofa at the offices of his Peace & Justice Project in Finsbury Park, deep in his north London constituency. “Not bad for a first policy, huh?” he asks, flashing his trademark wry grin. As it happened, the 2019 general election led to a landslide victory for Boris Johnson’s Conservatives. More than 2,000 people still sleep rough across the UK every night.
What I meant is I think he was trying to appease a media that would never be satisfied with anything less than his head by showing that he was civil.
but these people believe in nothing but safeguarding their own power he was a nice man and he tried to show them that but they see mercy and compassion as weakness and only respect shows of political strength.
Agree with all of that.
I think I get what you mean, if the media is going to demonize you no matter what then you may as well play the role of a villain and attack the media back