#InOurBritain Shows People Have Very Different Ideas About What Britain Should Be

At least there are far more positive than negative messages.

On Saturday evening #InOurBritain trended after calls earlier in the day for a ‘Twitterstorm’ to show support for Jeremy Corbyn.

•Please share everywhere• 7pm Twitterstorm tonight. Please add #InOurBritain to your tweets. pic.twitter.com/NYsPnzsI82

— Rachael (@Rachael_Swindon) August 6, 2016

At 7pm people did indeed start to tweet in the spirit of what was originally intended.

. #InOurBritain we will protect disabled people before bankers bonuses.

— Robbie Fowler (@Robbie9Fowler) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain we want to see Power & Wealth shared instead of kept in the hands of a small number of people. For that, we need Corbyn as PM

— Christina (@55krissi55) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain Had enough of Tory assault on working people, had enough of a complicit Blairite Labour - time for Socialism, time for Corbyn

— Johnny_Wrongo (@Johnny_Wrongo) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain we want a PM who will no longer turn a blind eye to the suffering & hardship of those on Low Incomes
Corbyn is the PM UK needs

— Christina (@55krissi55) August 6, 2016

Inevitably, as with most well-meaning hashtag movements, those with opposing views grabbed hold of it.

#InOurBritain We don't have a Muslim mayor in London and a huge population of angry, entitled Muslims..no wait, that's in MY ideal Britain

— Kelly (@OkKelly22) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain we have a great deal of tolerance to kiffarophobia

— Whitey McPrivilege (@yankeebrit77) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain it will always be Fatchers fault and all terrorists are just mentally ill!

— Peter Gansbuehler (@Petegansbuehler) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain its hard to find a British person

— #FreeMilo (@Blair4TheHague) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain We ethnically cleanse the British. pic.twitter.com/cL7pzDGY53

— Based Mercian (@Based_Mercian1) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain We won't tolerate Islamic gangs under fear of being called "racist" or "islamophobic". Weak Weak Weak

— Danielxander (@Danielxander) August 6, 2016

Enough of that though, on the whole it was all rather lovely.

#InOurBritain we give real help to refugees and welcome them into our communities.

— Harry Leslie Smith (@Harryslaststand) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain we shall build homes not walls we shall have butter not guns

— Spider Stacy (@spiderstacy) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain we have churches that wish people a happy pride. pic.twitter.com/3cdNAWtQxW

— James Hallwood (@jhallwood) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain #Corbyn for PM - pic.twitter.com/bN38uBzm2N

— Dylan Strain (@DylanStrain) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain we'll be tackling many of the causes of mental illness by dealing with fundamental human necessities -Shelter, Food, & Health

— Lyn Venables (@LynVenables) August 6, 2016

But there was also a lot of frustration.

#InOurBritain the politicians should be accountable to the people who elected them.

— Ian Lewis (@bookmeme) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain 250,000 people protesting against austerity can be dismissed as a rabble by Govt and a bunch of student lefties by the media.

— I was a JSA claimant (@imajsaclaimant) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain nobody will be denied the basic income needed for food & shelter for weeks because they were 5 minutes late to the jobcentre.

— Susan (@marthasydenham) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain there will be no covering up of bank crimes by regulators, police and politicians. #HSBCfraud

— Mr Ethical (@nw_nicholas) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain nobody will own a £200 million yacht while children eat from foodbanks #CorbynStays

— Susan (@marthasydenham) August 6, 2016

Oh, and obviously there were some digs at Owen Smith.

#InOurBritain Owen Smith is unelectable.

— Angela (@ajj0303) August 6, 2016

#InOurBritain, decks of cards will have " @owensmith2016 " instead of jokers.

— Lee_T (@Lee_T) August 6, 2016

In an interview with The Huffington Post UK, Jeremy Corbyn discussed the idea of a universal basic income.

He said: “I’m instinctively looking at it along with John. I am looking forward to discussing it with our colleagues from Norway because we have to think radically about how we bring about a more just and more equal society in Britain, how we develop policies that achieve that.

“Because what we are doing is heading in absolutely the wrong direction with a growing wealth inequality and an opportunity inequality for communities, as well as poorer families. It’s got to change and it will.

“I can see the headline attraction to it. I don’t want to commit to it until I’ve had a chance to look at it very seriously and very carefully because this would be a major, major change in social policy and it’s something I would invite the whole party and the whole movement to have a serious discussion about.

“What I want to do is develop policymaking through to 2020, where it’s very obvious what the general direction is we are going, on environmental policy, on housing policy, and health policy.”

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