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The more I hear about Bernie Sanders, the more I think he's just a cunt.

And Jeremy Corbyn seems to be taking after him, and that's a shame.

Tonight my train home was delayed due to flooding, and then my train home broke down a few stops from my stop. They got it going again. But still. It was not my favourite train ride home ever.

My Playstation Vita made it bearable though. The littlest Playstation.

Also, when I got home, I had a letter from the HMRC about my Working Tax Credits. They have given me them, which I sort of suspected when I looked at my bank balance the other day and had more than I thought I did. They are going to give me £400 a month. Which seems like a lot. It seems sort of ungrateful to even be shocked by it, and I'm not unhappy about it, I just...was not expecting that. They're going to give it to me until next April, the beginning of the next tax year, so I don't know if it'll continue after that, but. Wow.

I would feel a lot better about it, but ever since I sent off the form I have been worried that I accidentally confused Contribution-based and Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance. I know that they probably actually looked into my circumstances and tax records/national insurance information, and maybe that part didn't even make that much difference, but I'm still super-paranoid that I'm going to be accused of fraud somewhere down the line. I'm going to call the helpline tomorrow and just double-check. But if all goes well that's...very comforting. A lot more than I was expecting.

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my family and friends back home seem to think jeremy corbyn is the messiah.

i really don't.

I really liked him at first, just for being a proper socialist, and having a lot of genuinely pacifistic tendencies/policies that weren't very popular. But I heard he was super weird with the people working under him when there was that rebellion in the Labour ranks a bit ago, and now he's awkwardly refusing to leave even though so many people want him to. And genuinely claiming that people voted in Donald Trump in America mostly because of the economy and 'a political system people stopped believing in', and nothing else, is sort of the last straw. You started off so well, Jeremy Corbyn.

Yes I thought the media coverage of him initially was ridiculous, which predisposed me to like him at first, but... he's genuinely a twit. i think staying on when everyone wanted him out was basically just arrogance, giving a peerage to shami chakrabarti almost immediately after her report was at best incredibly fucking stupid, and... he just literally never stops making a tit out of himself.

plus a lot of his supporters ARE genuinely awful. "I don't care if angela eagle gets homophobic abuse, she shouldn't be betraying her constituents" - an actual thing than an actual corbyn fan seemed to think was ok to say.

A lot of left wing men seem to think that class is the only real oppression and everything else is 'identity politics', and deep down i get the feeling he's one of those men. (which is ridiculous on their part, because class politics are identity politics as well!)

also god spare me from people who think the trump vote was just a protest against ~inequality~. and by people i include 'my mother' in that category.

My mother's cousin changed his FB profile picture to Jeremy Corbyn's face. I think that did more to put me off Jeremy Corbyn than anything else.

That is super weird for a man/politician that really hasn't been that impressive lately. But it's the acceptance of that level of weird support, as though they genuinely deserve it, that's kind of off-putting, which seems to be the way Jeremy Corbyn's starting to lean. I can't believe he won't leave the Labour part leadership even though it's clear not a lot of people want him there, he doesn't seem to be enjoying it very much, and he hasn't said why he wants to stay or what he wants to achieve by staying or achieve in general, either.