Labour leadership front runner and retired Geography teacher Jeremy Corbyn has called on newspapers to try to abandon their practice of cherry picking a sentence from an interview and making it an out of context headline.
Speaking of the deluge of headlines saying he would bring back Clause IV, Corbyn said 'Er, no, I didn't say that.'
'I said we support, in some cases, some public ownership. We may look at the wording of the current Clause IV and discuss possible changes from anything from the original wording to what it says now.'
'Does that sound like I am saying 'Bring back the original Clause IV'?'
'No. It doesn't. I'm trying to elevate the debate here and all I get are broadsheets engaging in tabloid journalism.'
'Haven't you got nannies to leer over and annoy? Or organic free range chickens to pluck?'
'Couldn't you just, you know, fuck off?'
Speaking of the deluge of headlines saying he would bring back Clause IV, Corbyn said 'Er, no, I didn't say that.'
'I said we support, in some cases, some public ownership. We may look at the wording of the current Clause IV and discuss possible changes from anything from the original wording to what it says now.'
'Does that sound like I am saying 'Bring back the original Clause IV'?'
'No. It doesn't. I'm trying to elevate the debate here and all I get are broadsheets engaging in tabloid journalism.'
'Haven't you got nannies to leer over and annoy? Or organic free range chickens to pluck?'
'Couldn't you just, you know, fuck off?'