SJ Longthorne

Feeling so bad for Jeremy Corbyn right now. An honest, decent man, lifelong anti-racist campaigner and fighter for justice around the world, denigrated, demeaned and slandered to the point of being reduced to practically a subhuman caricature. This is on you, media.

This is someone who fought apartheid when Thatcher was calling the ANC terrorists, who opposed Latin American dictatorships when Maggie was playing footsie with Pinochet, defended the rights of Palestinians, called out Saudia Arabia for Yemen, called a coup a coup in Bolivia.

This man, this lifelong campaigner for justice, could not just be opposed. He had to be, from the moment he raised his head as leader of the Labour Party, destroyed, debased, dehumanized. We talk in the abstract of a class system - this is how it perpetuates itself in practice.