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Jeremy Corbyn

lines on the record: 69
first: 2022-09-23
most recent: 2022-09-23
sittings or episodes: 1
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“No, because the American power was not so much about wanting to militarily occupy all of Latin America, although they did on occasion such as in Guatemala and Dominican Republic. Theirs was much more about maintaining a financial control and supporting local forces that would maintain those U.S. companies' position, hence the undermining of the Allende government. So I think it's a different form of control.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that Putin, government and Russia have a real problem understanding national demands of neighboring countries that were once part of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, and of course Ukraine. And I think there is a problem there.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Involvement in Latin America became a big part of your thinking. And it got me reading quite a lot of the history of it. My mother sent me a letter because she sent letters sort of post-Ristan to wherever I happened to be, or she thought I might be. I've probably got most of them. And she said, I hope you're not going off looking for missing gold in Peru.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is, I was looking at this, and I was thinking about how the Spanish colonial experience remember these countries gained their independence in 1820, had just carried on that structure of society. And that's where when Evo Morales started the campaign against water privatization in Cochabamba, he was playing into all of that injustice in society. It was a fascinating experience.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The most fascinating experience was in Bolivia and Peru going to these quite small towns on my own on trucks and things and in the town you would see the whole structure and strata of society. You'd have the central plaza, Spanish colonial design unchanged, the police station, the church, the town hall, and just a little down the road the football stadium. The football stadium well presented, well preserved, well looked after. The rest of it a bit down a heel. And then you would see Spanish speaking people running all the administration. The market would be with people speaking Ketcha or Imera, depending on where you were, who were selling the goods. And then outside that, you would see either the Estancias with Spanish-speaking Spanish descent owners You would see indigenous people working on them.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But this was a time fascinating to be in Jamaica because it had only been independent four years. It was the development of Caribbean culture and Caribbean identity.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was to me an amazing experience. I think VSO taking a chance on sending 18-year-olds from Britain to be volunteers in countries all over the world and looking back on it, none of us that went were really ready for it. None of us had the sufficient life skills or experience to really do the job that we were being sent there to do. So it was a very fast learning curve. I just moved from a little village in Shropshire to Kingston, Jamaica to teach geography to very large classes of young boy, it was a boys school. The staff room was a very interesting place. They were pretty much all supporters of Norman Manley and then Michael Manley. So there was generally speaking of the left. And so we had lots of discussions about colonialism.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah. She Very supportive of what she had seen as the great achievements of the 1945 government because she had been in London during the war with my dad and then they were moved out because he was a key world.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Decent people remember her being the only time I saw her totally devastated by something she heard on the news was when she heard that Anaron Bevan had died. She was very moved by that. This would be in 1960 and I was then 11.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My mum gave me books and talked about history quite a bit, talked about issues of environment and sustainability and peace and so on. Did they continually sort of lecture me in politics? No.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Spanish Civil War. They met in Conway Hall during a meeting in support of the Spanish Republic and got together as a result of that. And my dad was a very hard-working person who at the same time was working at Krypton in Acton, CAV. He did a degree in engineering, lecture engineering by evening classes. It was then Northampton Polytechnic, now City University, and got a first evening classes whilst working on the shop floor.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, my mum and dad were both very committed socialists in their ideas and what they wanted. My dad was an engineer who worked all his life in the private sector. He finally ended up working at Joint European Tourists at Cullum in Oxford. And he was a quite brilliant electrical engineer. My mum was a teacher who did a great deal to promote the education of girls into doing great things.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think one should have a consistent set of values in life. I think of growing up as a child initially in Wiltshire, then later in Shropshire, my time in Jamaica as a voluntary service overseas and my time travelling around Latin America, my time in developing political ideas within the Young Socialists and the Labour Party, and particularly trade unions.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, if they have been inspired by the popularity of our policies, they've misread them. In a big way because they are proposing to give a lot of money to energy companies in order to protect their profits and their existence, whereas I was saying these energy companies have been ripping us off for a long time. We only got one wire going into each house, one pipe with the water, and maybe it's time to have those back into public ownership as France and Germany have done.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Financial Times wrote a very interesting piece saying that the opposition that Bernie Sanders and I had raised to the principle of austerity economics had actually changed the thinking of a lot of people. It was very I thought very generous peace by the Financial Times. Now I quite like the Financial Times actually because it is of course it's a financial paper but it's also very measured most of the time in what it says”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Irresponsible. We were proposing to yes increase taxation for the very richest, yes, and close down the tax loopholes, yes. We were also proposing to invest a great deal in housing and education.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had more than a smile about that because I was thinking all the condemnation I received for putting forward a proposal for a National Investment Bank and regional investment banks and investment banks for Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland and was told this was grossly irresponsible and John MacDonald at the same time had said we would not borrow to cover day-to-day spending. We would only borrow for investment. What the government has now done is borrowed billions or is in the process of borrowing billions in order to pay for day expenditure because they've just cut their own income level.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It means that I don't have to attend every event that goes on around the place, you know, and it means that I get a chance also to promote particular campaigns on social justice, housing, media reform, all those kind of issues which I spend a lot of time doing. So do I miss it? Of course, because I miss the opportunity of putting forward the policies we did. Which is, you kindly point out in your introduction, would have resulted in borrowing. Yes, that borrowing would have been for investment. Yes, it wouldn't be borrowing to pay bankers' bonuses.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I miss not having the opportunity obviously who wouldn't, but I'm as busy as I've always been doing lots of campaigns, lots of events and so on. My diary is pretty packed up like it's always been. Yeah, so that's not that.”
2022-09-23 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Jeremy Corbyn One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source