Corbyn Victory & Refugees Welcome: Saturday twelfth September 2015 was a day of hope when Jeremy Corbyn received the Labour management election with a landslide victory, getting greater than 3 times the vote of his nearest rival, Andy Burnham. A number of hundred Corbyn supporters met at Audio system’ Nook earlier than the Refugees Welcome march to hearken to the outcomes of the Labour Management election.
Victory Social gathering for Jeremy Corbyn – Audio system’ Nook, Hyde Park,
Stress constructed because the Deputy Chief outcomes got here after which erupted with Jeremy Corbyn’s first spherical victory.
Corbyn had solely been capable of stand within the election as a result of some Labour MPs who didn’t assist him have been ready to appoint him in order that the Labour left would have a candidate within the poll and never really feel it was rigged in opposition to them. They thought he would solely get a miserably low proportion of the votes.
In response to Wikipedia, the discharge of opinion polls earlier than the election which confirmed Corbyn within the lead prompted “high-profile interventions by numerous distinguished Labour figures together with Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Jack Straw, David Miliband, and Alastair Campbell, amongst others” who felt Labour with Corbyn as chief could be unelectable.
These interventions nearly definitely elevated assist for Corbyn, and though these and different Labour figures similar to Peter Mandelson, together with many of the media and press did their greatest to attempt to eliminate Corbyn, together with varied plots and mass resignations from the Shadow Cupboard, he remained in style within the nation.
The 2017 election turned out to be a a lot nearer contest than most had imagined, and it was solely resulting from deliberate sabotage by Labour occasion officers that Corbyn misplaced. A leaked report in 2020 which demonstrated this led to the organising of the Forde report into Labour occasion factionalism which though it referred to as the sooner report “factional” confirmed a lot of its suspicions and conclusions – in addition to criticising either side within the occasion – remained secret till July 2022.
What shocked many people was the evident reduction proven by some main members of the occasion because the 2017 election outcomes have been popping out that their occasion had misplaced. And the witch-hunt in opposition to the left within the occasion continues unabated.
On the twelfth September twelfth 2015 there was way more media curiosity within the few hundred celebrating Corbyn’s victory than within the enormous Refugees Welcome march which adopted, and within the media scrum I acquired knocked flying and my tools scattered, however managed to collect it up and proceed work.
Victory Social gathering for Jeremy Corbyn
Refugees Welcome Right here Rally & March
From Audio system Nook I joined the massive crowd – at the least 50,000 – filling Park Lane so far as I may see. This nationwide march was a response to the numerous studies of refugees fleeing warfare and persecution, with individuals wanting to point out their assist for refugees going through demise and hardship and their disgust on the lack of compassion and insufficient response of the British authorities.
On My London Diary is an inventory and images of a few of the audio system earlier than the march set off. I photographed the entrance of the march because it arrange on the southern finish of Park Lane and went with it for the primary couple of hundred yards into Piccadilly, the place I finished to {photograph} the remainder of the march because it got here previous.
The marchers have been pretty densely packed and unfold throughout the entire of the roadway (and generally on to the pavement too) and it took precisely an hour to go previous me.
There have been many on the protest who weren’t the standard protesters, individuals who stated this was the primary protest they’d ever attended, in addition to those who I knew from earlier protests, and there have been many fascinating placards and banners to {photograph} – and lots of extra photos on My London Diary.
As the tip of the march handed me I rushed into Inexperienced Park Station and took the tube to Westminster, arriving on Whitehall because it went very noisily previous Downing Avenue.
I ran again to Parliament Sq., and this quickly crammed up with individuals and banners. I sat down on the wall near the Churchill statue, realising I used to be fairly drained and hungry.
Many marchers left fairly than keep and hearken to the speeches, although the sq. was nonetheless crowded and I made a decision I would go away too.
Extra on My London Diary:
Rally Says Refugees Welcome Right here
Refugees are welcome right here march
Refugees Welcome march reaches Parliament
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