Corbyn on Piers Morgan show

Corbyn is naive to go on this programme. He always gets flustered when challenged, I suspect as he isn't used to it, as he has always surrounded himself by people who agree with him. This once gain shows his lack of political nous and why he was unsuitable to be leader of a political party trying to be a government.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
Perhaps he shouldn't have gone on the show but he probably saw it as an opportunity to give a thought out point of view instead of just the soundbites we have to endure elsewhere
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If he thought he'd get the opportunity to do that while being "interviewed" by Piers Morgan, he's even thicker than I thought he was
 
newusername said:
For clarification are you saying he has already condemned Hamas for their terrorism since 7th October?
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I meant repeat his (Morgan's) words but yes he has condemned Hamas as we can see in my link above ,#21 but the PM immediately denied that he had done so.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
And before he can address this very serious subject he must perform like a ventriloquist dummy? How long will it take people to realise that no matter what he says, people will always say that Jeremy Corbyn said the opposite.

A perfect example from the current PM.

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Again, he says "they have to be condemned as everyone has done today" but he doesn't actually condemn them himself.
 
Malaguena said:
If he thought he'd get the opportunity to do that while being "interviewed" by Piers Morgan, he's even thicker than I thought he was
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He has to try doesn't he? Afterall he is the most prominent voice calling for a ceasefire. Or do you prefer your politicians cowed by the media?
newusername said:
Again, he says "they have to be condemned as everyone has done today" but he doesn't actually condemn them himself.
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You're obviously determined to believe what the UK's third rate media want you to believe. Tell me, do deconstruct the words of any other MP to this extent?
 
newusername said:
I think Corbyn could have brought that to a halt quite easily by answering the question, he could have given a politician's answer, he could have qualified his answer, he could've related it to the ANC & Nelson Mandela being on the terrorist watch list until 2008, the talks with Sinn Féin while the IRA were operating, etc. It is only a 'gotcha' question if you keep throwing yourself back into your seat while whining 'Let me speak...'.
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Why dont they invite Starmer to challenge his support for armed terror against the Palestinians in the Gaza concentration camp?
Where are the questions about what British warships are doing in the Med and why RAF Troodos in Cyprus, along with "Special Forces" is being used to enable intelligence gathering on the ground and in the air to assists the Israeli genocide.
Never mind asking Jeremy Corbyn [with whom the media are obsessed because their message is being debunked at every turn and corner] - if he`s such a marginal figure?
Ask Starmer [wannabee PM] why he supports genocide and why he supports arming the Israeli regime.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
He has to try doesn't he? Afterall he is the most prominent voice calling for a ceasefire
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Well yes he does, and credit for that, but you have to assume he'd know exactly how Morgan would behave, and therefore have a plan for that, other than sitting back and trying the "let me speak" approach which was never going to work ......... but there again Morgan was always going to shout him down whatever he tried
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
He has to try doesn't he? Afterall he is the most prominent voice calling for a ceasefire. Or do you prefer your politicians cowed by the media?

You're obviously determined to believe what the UK's third rate media want you to believe. Tell me, do deconstruct the words of any other MP to this extent?
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It is a TV interview with a politician, the longstanding format is the interviewer asks questions, the interviewer’s job is to generate interest in the interview & channel this is usually done by putting the politician on the spot with a tough question and the politician answers them in a way to support their position and get their point across without looking like an idiot.

They get Corbyn on because he plays the game so badly & it is like shooting fish in a barrel.

“Are you prepared to call Hamas a terror group?” isn’t even a hard question.
 
As much as I admire Corbyn's principles and 100% echo his thoughts on the need for a ceasefire, I do think at times his refusal or inability to play the game backfires on him.

As much as he has been obstructed by others he at times certainly hasn't helped himself, although he has condemned Hamas in the past he should have done so unequivocally again last night, it derails Morgan's obvious agenda, it moves the focus onto the debate instead of stalling it and allowing the narrative that follows to propagate.

It's a shame that he was never given the chance to be PM but instances like this add fuel to the fire to those who believe he wasn't the right man to lead the country, it frustrates and infuriates me that with small changes what might have been.
 
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For me people usually from right wing media, will berate and constantly ask the question "do you condemn Hamas?" Just to get a rise out of the person, Corbyn has repeatedly said he condemns both Hamas and Israel, but I can bet you same right wing media won't berate and constantly ask Israel supporters, "do you condemn Israel? In the same mannerism and energy as they ask the Hamas question, if at all.
 
If you can't handle oafs like Piers Morgan then you aren't really PM material in my opinion. Both came out of that not particularly well.

I'm not sure why it was so difficult for Corbyn just to say yes when asked if Hamas were a terrorist organisation? People will understandably read what they will into that outside of this largely pro Corbyn forum.

Tories would be having a field day with that if he was still in Labour.
 
American_Mary said:
As much as I admire Corbyn's principles and 100% echo his thoughts on the need for a ceasefire, I do think at times his refusal or inability to play the game backfire on him.
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100% this. Nice bloke, who can’t understand why everyone else isn’t nice and thoughtful like him. It’s a nice idea but he was never going to win over the working classes without understanding that what they want is someone who WILL bang their fist on the table occasionally.
 
Alzi said:
If you can't handle oafs like Piers Morgan then you aren't really PM material in my opinion. Both came out of that not particularly well.

I'm not sure why it was so difficult for Corbyn just to say yes when asked if Hamas were a terrorist organisation? People will understandably read what they will into that outside of this largely pro Corbyn forum.

Tories would be having a field day with that if he was still in Labour.
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You have to understand that there is a big difference in condemning specific actions of Hamas and acknowledging that Hamas is a terrorist organisation.
 
I haven't seen it and won't watch it because... Piers Morgan.

It does however demonstrate that as much as Jeremy Corbyn is a fine man with principles and a belief in a fairer world that he should never have been elected as leader of the Labour Party.

I don't see why he accepts the invite at all. It's Piers Morgan you are not going to be allowed to make your point or enter into a debate. He cannot win in that situation. If he walks out Morgan will deliver a monologue to camera deriding him for not "debating" and if he stays Morgan just ignores him and shouts at him for the duration and (no doubt) delivers a final monologue to camera as a coup de grace.

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It struck me that JC was very badly prepared for that interview. He should have anticipated in advance the kind of stupid questions that Morgan would ask and crafted appropriate responses. By not doing that he allowed Morgan to control the interview.
 
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