Jeremy Corbyn Is Following Bernie Sanders' Campaign With 'Great Interest'
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Jeremy Corbyn, the United Kingdom’s new left-wing Labour Party leader who is drawing comparisons to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), said days before his upset victory on Friday that he was following Sanders’ presidential campaign with “great interest.”
“I have many friends in the USA and indeed, I am following Bernie Sanders’ campaign with great interest,” Corbyn said on Sept. 4 to BBC economics editor Robert Preston, who had asked whether Corbyn is anti-American. “We’re exchanging leaflets and badges and things like that -- so it’s great.”
Corbyn, who was elected Labour Party leader with 59.5 percent of the vote, and Sanders, a 2016 Democratic presidential hopeful, have both elicited unexpected popularity for championing a more even distribution of wealth and challenging the political establishment in their respective countries.
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(Sanders) “I think whether it is the U.K. or here in the United States, here’s the answer: People are sick and tired of establishment politics,” he said. “They are sick and tired of a politics in which people continue, candidates continue to represent the rich and the powerful -- go out beggin' money from the wealthy. They are sick and tired of an economics in which almost all of the new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeremy-corbyn-bernie-sanders_55f446dce4b077ca094f4ed7
In 2002,jeremy corbyn was in the forefront of protests against Tony Blair's rush to support Bush's to war w/Iraq.
New leader of UK Labour Party is a stalwart defender of unions who celebrated victory in a pub w/labor activists.
https://twitter.com/NicholsUprising
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