David Icke comes to Jeremy Corbyn's defence

Jeremy Corbyn is not having a good day. A large number of Labour MPs are uniting against him over his stance on Syria, while the news that the Labour party has lifted its suspension of his aide Andrew Fisher has been met with hostility by Caroline Flint and Siobhain McDonagh.

With the knives out for the Labour leader, happily Corbyn can at least rely on the support of one man at this testing time. Step forward David Icke. Yes, the purple-tracksuit-wearing-lizard-conspiracist has tweeted his support for Corbyn, sharing a charming clip art picture urging him to ‘stand by your principles’.

pic.twitter.com/eXGn8fTz4w

— David Icke (@davidicke) November 27, 2015

While Corbyn needs all the friends he can get right now, he may need to treat his new cheerleader with caution. After all, this is the same David Icke who went from being a sports broadcaster to a new age conspiracist after deciding that he was a ‘son of the Godhead’. Icke now spends his days sharing his wisdom on the reptilian humanoids who secretly rule the world. Still, with Shadow Cabinet ministers threatening to resign over Corbyn’s stance on Syria, perhaps it’s time Corbyn gave Icke a call.

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Jackthesmilingblack

Next Downfall spoof.
“All those that voted for that pacifist *uckwit remain where you are. All the rest leave the room.”
John welsh

This is getting better by the day. A cabinet post for Icke?
right1_left1

Corbyn is far too collectivist for me and to balance that unregulated capitalism produces a very unjust society so when the enterprise to intervene in Syria fails and security within the UK is raised up 10 noches what will you chickenhawks do then ?

I know…it must be Coorbyn;s fault
paulus

I once bought a book by David Icke to read on a train journey, it was meticulously researched and entirely plausible right up to the point where he introduced the lizard people.

He suffers from a condition of uber logic. Marx had the same condition. They use grinding inductive logic until the logic becomes overwhelming and the conclusion is dictated by the logic. It does not matter how absurd the conclusion is it has to be the only inevitable conclusion. Unfortunately for Icke and Marx, it was identified in ancient Greece as a logical fallacy “reducio ad absurdum”. He could have made a fortune as a markets analyst, spotting pattern pays money.
- http://www.workinprogress.com Nicetime
  
  I’m intrigued to know what grinding inductive and overwhelming logic can produce the conclusion that we are literally ruled by an ancient race of lizards disguised as humans. Coincidentally, as featured in the 80s sci-fi drama ‘V’. I’m all for listening to an alternate viewpoint, but I can’t see how Icke, or anyone speaking for him gets past the central absurdity of what he’s saying
  - paulus
    
    To be honest with you my train journey ended just as I was getting into the bit where he was losing touch with empirical evidence but if I remember correctly he was basing it on the fact that every person has a human spine and a part of the brain that is reptilian. I could not vouch for the voracity of that information as my knowledge of human biology is limited to watching David Attemborough on TV. Conspiracy theories are a comfort blanket for some people as the obvious alternative that we are a bunch of clueless clowns is unpalatable for them.
    - http://www.workinprogress.com Nicetime
      
      I think you got further with it than I could have.
Steven Barr

David Icke told everybody for years that our establishment was swarming with paedophiles and everybody laughed until he was proven right.
Johnny Verity

Food for thought on Syrian bombing from an Iraq War vet now in Congress?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDQNw2qqOE8
Binky Tatler

Icke provided one of the the best pieces of tv ever. His exchange on the Richard Littlejohn show was a classic..It is strange when David Icke makes comments everyone remembers them. Maybe he knows how to work the media…
Chris Hobson

There are some really thick baby boomer prats around these days,
Bug-Spray-hoax

The people wishing to overthrow Syria are subversive terrorist genocidal scum
Fra Cazzo da Velletri

Why’s Rod Liddle wearing a hoodie?
- William Brown
  
  Aha! So, has Rod ever been seen in the same room as Icke? Maybe you’re on to something…
Alex Moore

Sigh! And I used to subscribe to the Spectator and liked it. But to stoop so low that they have to use one of the classical logic fallacies (ad
hominem ) to try and discredit Corbyn is a sad day indeed. Maybe they too are owned by the same people who benefit by military spending.
Tamerlane

Oh Gawd… here come the Corby loons…thanks Steerpike, and I was having a gentle Saturday.
trace9

Someone should make that sign read; We are small change.. Very…
The_greyhound

Slightly surprising that Mr Icke doesn’t have a shadow minister’s portfolio. He would be at least as credible as McDonnell.
wudyermucuss

Icke,and Corbyn,are the cost of our freedom although,perversely,they oppose it at heart.
- Eques
  
  How do they oppose it?
  Look up the definition of “freedom”, it’s not “things I agree with”
  And I hope you’re not a supporter of the snoopers’ charter.
  - wudyermucuss
    
    I absolutely support the ability of our security services to monitor our communications,yes.
    Icke and Corbyn are both enemies within,a price of our freedom;they both are bigots,ie they support dogmas.
    - Eques
      
      Ok so you’re in favour of freedom only on the understanding that its recipients express opinions that you agree with. Makes perfect sense.
- Kim
  
  Free-dums, that’s why they hate us. Not because we bomb countries.
grammarschoolman

Are Icke’s reptiles in league with Livingstone’s newts? We need to be told!
- Son_of_Casandra
  
  All hiding under one of Corbyn’s manhole covers.
  
  Talking of manholes, is it still acceptable for Corbyn to call them that?
  
  It seems Corbyn’s new vegan Agriculture Minister Kerry McCarthy is tying herself in knots trying to come up with a gender neutral term for fishermen. It’s good to see Labour focusing on the important issues that confront our country.
- Gilbert White
  
  Karma chameleon, it comes and goes according to background colour?
andy_gill

David Icke is clearly barking mad. I almost feel sorry for Corbyn if this delusional git is publicly endorsing him.
- Son_of_Casandra
  
  I feel sorry for David Icke if the delusional Corbyn has anything to do with him.
- ennairam123
  
  I smell a troll
Damaris Tighe

I suppose lizard obsessives feel affinity with newt fanciers.
Bedbugger

For a number of years, David Icke has warned us of a manufactured war between Russia/China an NATO. This is necessary to reset the World financial systems which are hopelessly beyond repair.
A major conflict occurs every 25 years without fail. Just look at the last century, 1914, 1939, 1964 (Vietnam), 1989 (Gulf 1), 2014 (Crimea).
It’s gonna happen, and there’s nothing anyone can do about.
- Wessex Man
  
  Nurse, Nurse, Nu……………….
  - Bedbugger
    
    Are you alright ?
    - rationality
      
      For things they dont understand they think they are being clever by discrediting. Its pathetic and its why we are on the road to ruin.
- TatR
  
  Well Vietnam didn’t start in 1964 and the Gulf War didn’t start in 1989. But other than that….
  - Bedbugger
    
    Deciding when a conflict actually starts isn’t always easy. The U.S. got fully involved in Vietnam following the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964. Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1990, but the arguments started the previous year. So, if you want to be picky I’ll give you that one.
- starfish
  
  Crimea a ‘major war’?
  - Bedbugger
    
    Crimea was the beginning, major conflicts have to start somewhere. Check out the Wheeler Index for the 25 year rule.
    - starfish
      
      I see its a 25 year plus or minus a few years rule
      
      Not much of a rule
- starfish
  
  Crimea a ‘major war’?
Chris Winkley

I think David has been totally vilified on 99% what he said …. You must be blind if you think otherwise, Austerity for war yeah why don’t we join another war because of a fake false flag, everyone has a mobile with a camera, WHERE IS THE MOBILE FOOTAGE OF THE FRENCH ATTACK ????? now we are supporting our FRENCH BROTHERS ? When did we become so friendly ? A bullshit false flag to go to war people are going to pay for being like sheep … No critical thinking at all, no money for homeless or NHS but plenty for the agenda, WW3 soon but don’t worry about the rich or government they will be deep underground, we will be on the surface scurrying around like Rats, best you can hope for is a nuke taking you and your family out, and not dying slowly of Radiation.
- Wessex Man
  
  Really Speccie, where have you found all these nutters from?
  - Michael990
    
    They grow in pods in Corbyn and Icke’s gardens.
  - Tamerlane
    
    Uh huh, I was thinking that – there’s a lot of monikers here I’ve never seen before and quite a few commenting for the first time. Well, it is a Saturday and it was giro day yesterday so I suppose the Corby fans have a bit of internet time to burn.
    - Chris Winkley
      
      Unlimited data so what are you on about and I work, keep reading the sun it’s doing a good job of telling you what to think …and there people actually think they are smart loooool google critical thinking, if you have any credit lol.
  - Chris Winkley
    
    You are the nutter keep believing what they tell you to believe.
- Dogsnob
  
  What are you talking about? There is plenty of money for the homeless; as long as they have just arrived in the country and have not paid a penny into the system.
  - Chris Winkley
    
    Yeh they are not homeless are they. I think the word your struggling with is immigrant, and if you stop reading the sun you might find they not on loads of money maybe they get a lot of rent paid if in London but they now on 30k per year .
    - Dogsnob
      
      What a simple-minded and arrogant series of assumptions you make. I never, ever read newspapers.
      I have no struggle with using any words to describe the issues of immigration. I talk and comment freely on its injustices.
      
      Whatever money immigrants are given in welfare, is money I resent them having. Any house they occupy by jumping the very long waiting list, is a house denied a person/family already here. Any job they take is a job which should be done by people already here. Any NHS treatment they get, is stealing. Any education they get, same.
      - Chris Winkley
        
        So where is the money for the homeless then ????
        Your talking rubbish you know absolutely nothing, they have cut housing benifits, brought in the bedroom tax, more cuts in 2017 so where is the the money ..???
        
        Dogsnob
        
        Where is the money?
        Well, it starts off in the pocket of people like me, then HMG relieve us of it, then they use it to pay landlords on the dot each month to house people, some of whom work, many idle.
        You can whinge all you like my friend but the gravy train chugs along full steam.
        Best bit is that thousands more stream in every day to help themselves to it, having never paid a penny into the system that pays for its upkeep. Good scheme eh?!
- MillionaireSocialist
  
  Perhaps when you’re suddenly under attack from AK47-wielding, self-exploding nutters when sitting in a café, the last thing one does is reach for the phone to film the event?
- TatR
  
  The mobile phone footage? In a small room with guns blazing, you would take out your phone and film it? That’s absurd.
  - Chris Winkley
    
    So 911,three buildings brought down , terrorist hijackers, and footage from every angle imaginable, once people got to a safe place some would definitely start tweeting videos, facebooking videos or photographs or uploading to YouTube … Just another false flag to get people like you behind another war …. Check it out yourself don’t take my world but don’t look at mainstream news outlets .
    - TatR
      
      Even Alex Jones doesn’t believe this was a false flag operation. Yes there was 911 footage, but from outside the building. Nobody decided to film as they were running down stairwells or saw a plane approaching from within the building.
Terence Hale

Hi,
“David Icke comes to Jeremy Corbyn’s defence”. As a rank and file parliamentarian Mr. Corbyn was critical and well versed, as a leader he follows. This may be the inexperience of office where by the next fifty years will be decisive.
warmingmyth

Whether David Icke is right or wrong, it certainly may be time to step back from the brink rather than rush headlong in to it.
Everyone needs to be much more sober and thoughtful about the situation in Syria.
In order to help the process of sobering up, here is an article reporting the views of the leader of the third largest party in the Russian Duma:
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/zhirinovsky-proposes-to-drop-nuclear.html

Similarly here is a report about statements made by the head of the Tukish intelligence:
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/turkish-intelligence-chief-isis-is.html
- Chris Winkley
  
  We absolutely should not bomb Syria , it’s an absolutely disgusting decision, everyone thinks it’s ok to bomb another country that’s done Jack to us and the american military is on it , so is Russia and the French…. David Cameron is absolute scum.
Eques

To be honest, the way the media have completely distorted the truth and mislead the populace since Corbyn’s elevation, I’m almost starting to believe the stuff about a ruling cabal of Lizards.
- Wessex Man
  
  So Livingstone didn’t say what he said on Question Time, McDonnell didn’t quite from the biggesesrt mass murder of all time little red book and throw it across the House of Commons, Jezza didn’t give the Shadow Cabinet the week-end to think and come to a decision over backing bombing in Syria and then betray them and go behind their backs?
  - Son_of_Casandra
    
    And Livingstone didn’t tell the relatives and survivors of 7/7 that it was the UK’s fault that the bombers “sacrificed” themselves.
    - grammarschoolman
      
      A friend of mine died on the Piccadilly Line. I find it very hard to believe that she was to blame.
      - Son_of_Casandra
        
        You have my very sincere condolences. A truly horrendous day that even those of us who weren’t there are marked by. I hope you realise I am having a go at the vile Livingstone for his totally unacceptable comments. They were disgraceful.
        
        grammarschoolman
        
        Indeed. I was criticising Ken, not you.
        
        By the by, isn’t it funny that he didn’t say these things in the immediate aftermath of the attack. Presumably because he knew that he’d have been lynched.
        
        Son_of_Casandra
        
        He’s one of the most vile creatures on the British political scene and when you realise that includes people like McDonnell, Seumas Milne, Abbott, Galloway and Jenny Tonge that’s quite an achievement. I really can’t write here what I’d like to see happen to the man.
        
        grammarschoolman
        
        I once sat opposite him on the Jubilee Line with a cup of hot coffee in my hand. What a missed opportunity!
        
        The_greyhound
        
        Indeed, but nobody has ever suggested that he put his todger in a pig’s gob, oddly enough.
    - TatR
      
      Well you’ve made some of this up haven’t you? He said it was Tony Blair’s fault for invading Iraq, not that it was the victim’s fault. Right or wrong, it’s not what you’re writing here.
    - starfish
      
      No, he said this
      
      “I want to say one thing specifically to the world today. This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at Presidents or Prime Ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners, black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jew, young and old. It was an indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any considerations for age, for class, for religion, or whatever.
      
      “That isn’t an ideology, it isn’t even a perverted faith – it is just an indiscriminate attempt at mass murder and we know what the objective is. They seek to divide Londoners. They seek to turn Londoners against each other. I said yesterday to the International Olympic Committee, that the city of London is the greatest in the world, because everybody lives side by side in harmony. Londoners will not be divided by this cowardly attack.”
      
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2005/07/08/livingstone_speech_feature.shtml
      
      Livingstone, like all lefties likes to rewrite history
      - Son_of_Casandra
        
        We’re discussing what Livingstone on Question Time last week.
        
        He said “They (the bombers) gave their lives, they said what they believed…They took Londoners lives in protest….”
        
        Just disgusting and sickening to hear words like that come out of the mouth of any British politician..
  - Eques
    
    On Question Time, Livingstone said “”I remember when Tony Blair was told by Security Services ‘if you go into Iraq it will make us a target’ and he ignored that advice, and it killed 52 Londoners”
    
    In other words, Blair’s policies led to the London Bombings – the London bombings would not have happened without them. That was a comment on Blair, not on the moral rectitude of the terrorists.
    
    McDonnell quoted from Mao to make a point about Osborne selling the country’s industry to the (human rights abusing) Chinese.
    
    When McDonnell u-turned on the fiscal charter this was declared by the media as a piece of stunning incompetence. When Osborne did 2 u-turns in one day much more shattering and clear cut than McD’s (on 2 issues that Corbyn had made a fuss of in PMQs) the media presented this as a TRIUMPH for the government.
    
    When Cameron is his Party Conference Speech that Corbyn hated the country, this was all over the headlines. When Corbyn said in his conference speech that the Tories are in the pocket of hedge funds (and quoted the donation figures) this was not reported at all.
    
    Not to mention all the cack about the frikkin’ angle of Jezza’s bow at the Cenotaph.
    
    So yes quite a lot of distortion there.
    - Tamerlane
      
      Cry me a river sweetheart. Grow up.
      - Eques
        
        Er, OK.
    - Dogsnob
      
      You and Ken Livingstone assume that the London bombers would not have carried out their acts had we not joined the war in Iraq.
      - anglicus
        
        All depends on who you think the bombers were.
        
        Dogsnob
        
        Enlighten me. Pull the shroud from my innocent eyes, do.
        
        Maggie Watson
        
        Very well named.
        
        Dogsnob
        
        Man know thyself innit.
    - Johnnydub
      
      “McDonnell quoted from Mao to make a point about Osborne selling the country’s industry to the (human rights abusing) Chinese.”
      
      Are you hard of thinking? What exactly are we selling? Buying yes, selling no…
      
      If you want to critique policy is helps to be able to articulate the basics and not look like a fool who revers mass murderers…
- grammarschoolman
  
  I watched Livingstone, McDonnell and Corbyn say all those things on television. Their lips moved in synch with the words and everything. Those media distorters must be so technically gifted. I’m totally in awe of them.
  - Eques
    
    I watched as well.
    
    Here is what Livingstone said “I remember when Tony Blair was told by Security Services ‘if you go into Iraq it will make us a target’ and he ignored that advice, and it killed 52 Londoners”
    
    That was a critique of Blair’s foreign policy, not praise for the bombers.
    
    The reactionary members of the panel then jumped in and claimed he had said something he had not, and then unfortunately the rest of the argument was about that rather than what he actually said.
    - grammarschoolman
      
      That’s one thing he said, but not the only thing he said, and certainly not the most offensive.
      
      That argument was very useful, because it forced his real views out into the open: ‘They gave their lives. They said what they believed’. Not only were those sentences clearly praise for the bombers, but they put these murderous thugs on the same level as soldiers fighting the Nazis or even, given the phrasing of the first sentence, on the same level as Christ.
      
      Typical of the left: use part of the evidence and claim it as the whole truth.
      - Eques
        
        “That argument was very useful, because it forced his real views out into the open: ‘They gave their lives. They said what they believed'”
        
        Hmmm well fair enough, I suppose I would make similar claims if this was a Tory saying something potentially dodgy.
        
        But in light of his opening statement, I took that to mean “Yes they did do it because of the Iraq war, they said so”
        
        “Typical of the left: use part of the evidence and claim it as the whole truth.”
        
        I did actually say that he started with that statement, and then his meaning was hijacked by the rest of the panel, which dominated the rest of the discussion.
- Dogsnob
  
  No surprise there then.
- Haloge
  
  A cabal of lizard overlords would almost be a blessed relief from the present arrangement where we have the blind preaching to the deaf, and the MSM misreporting it.
  - Maggie Watson
    
    Careful what you wish for!
MrJones

radical i know but not funding Isis under the table as a way of attacking Assad would probably help
- Kim
  
  That would be anti-american, or something. Not a bad thing, by now.
Morris Jasper

Leaping Lizards! Does Icke have a portrait of Rod Liddle locked in his attic?
rtj1211

He has a right to express his view. Just as every foaming-at-the-mouth blogger at the Speccie does too.

You don’t have to agree with it, but that’s democracy for you.
- Are You Sure
  
  By “foaming at the mouth” are you referring to everyone who doesn’t share your opinions?
  - Eques
    
    Oh yeah, because the rightards on these threads are famously tolerant of people who don’t share their opinions, or even their skin colour.
    - Are You Sure
      
      So that would be a yes then.
    - Ooh!MePurse!
      
      Whataboutery.
    - The_greyhound
      
      You should the bigoted hysterics of the leftards on the Labour List, now that a few mainstream rational types have joined. Ranting demands for immediate expulsions and rigid censorship. There’s none quite so terrified of free speech as the modern pinko.
    - Haloge
      
      From the Curse of the rightards & leftists Oh Great Green Lizard deliver us!
Atlas

Brilliant, just brilliant. Labour is now the nutcase house. All we need now is to discover that Corbychev keeps the preserved corpse of Red Robbo in his attic.
- Ralph
  
  When you can’t tell between a what’s happening to Labour and an elaborate hoax you know that the party is in trouble.
- No Bull Nonofit
  
  What is wrong with funding isis and moderate terrorits that are being attacked by Russia who were invited to help Assad? I will give you a clue. Russia/Syria v US/nato equals a world war. Why? Because after ww2 loans on both sides were repaid to Rothschild they are after another payday. Its about manipulating the public through funding terrorism to reorganise the middle east, western societ and beyond. Why? To enslave the population through division, debt, war and fear. And of course grab the globe. Look how many countries expansionist US/nato are currently in.
  - Dogsnob
    
    Perhaps you would save yourself a lot of time by coming out with the words you really would like to use: ‘It’s the Jews’.
    - Maggie Watson
      
      The Rothschild dynasty may be Jews (Ashkenazi) but they do not represent Jews therefore your comment is disingenuous and inflammatory.
      - Dogsnob
        
        In what way?
  - Workshed
    
    …Or how many countries the Rothschilds DON’T have a banking headquarters in them. Count ’em, on one hand.
Jonathan Burns

Well what can one say?
- Picquet
  
  Wibble?
  - Jonathan Burns
    
    With two pencils up your nose, wearing a pair of underpants on head.
    - trobrianders
      
      Hard to imagine a coward/pacifist in the trenches Darling