Jeremy Corbyn’s speech was excellent. It was passionate, full of campaigning zeal, focused on issues that the MP has campaigned on for years, and well-received in the hall.
The new Labour leader came across as warm, principled, personable, fun. He was introduced in a lovely, low key fashion by a member of his own constituency party, whose own life story summed up his own values. He opened with jokes about the media claiming that he was keen for an asteroid to destroy the earth (more on this and his opposition to PIGEON BOMBS here), and these went down well – both amongst the activists and the media sitting in the hall.
He ran through issues that he cared about, such as child poverty, mental health, education, Trident, foreign policy, and challenged David Cameron, particularly on Britain’s relationship with Saudi Arabia.
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He took the Tory attack that he is a threat to security and applied it to different examples of injustice that he saw around Britain, asking them where the security was in homeless families, those turning to food banks, insecure housing, and others.
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