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Jeremy Corbyn: compassion, honesty and hope at last
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FORGET the media hype of the Labour leadership contest for a few minutes.
Forget the furore of the right-wing newspapers with their prefixes gone mad — “hard-left, militant, extreme left-wing” — when saying anything about Jeremy Corbyn, and let’s concentrate on three of the key aspects of Jeremy’s bid that are setting him apart from the other candidates — compassion, honesty and hope.
Pre-Blair, compassion is what the Labour Party stood for. While the Tories and their millionaire mates made money and to hell with everyone else, Labour had compassion for vulnerable people — the disabled, the carers, the poor, those fallen on hard times and made redundant and unemployed, those who had suffered workplace injuries and could no longer work.
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