The corporate media and the loony right are desperate to discredit Jeremy Corbyn and to present the notion of him leading the Labour party as an apocalypse…

…but they have a problem – how on earth can the guy be smeared? How can fear be invoked? How can the contest be trivialised?

The solutions of the corporate media have been lurid, ridiculous and served only to boost the Corbyn campaign.

All here at Sodium Haze are grateful for the witless support that people like Tony Blair and Alistair Darling have lent the Corbyn campaign – so we have initiated The Golden Corby Awards – to celebrate and recognise the valuable contributions that they have made to Jeremy’s election as Labour leader..

The categories are:

Most hapless anti-Corbyn columnist:

Best contribution to the Corbyn campaign by a media outlet

Most laughable / patronising anti-Corbyn smear

The Golden Corby – Best Contribution to the Corbyn campaign

We have a few suggestions below – but its over to you, our clever readers, to scan the continuum and suggest your favourite gems from the corporate media.

Post your nominations in the comments section below – the deadline for nominations is Monday 24th August at 7pm.

Each winner of the prestigious Sodium Haze Golden Corby Award will receive a gold (coloured) Corby trophy, a certificate of thanks from us here at Sodium Haze and the warm knowledge that their anti-Corbyn articles have helped elect a decent politician to be leader of the Labour Party.

please feel free to put forward your own categories too!

Most hapless anti-Corbyn columnist:

Polly Toynbee (Guardian)

Confidently predicted Yvette Cooper would be the front runner (she is a distant third).

She decided that Corbyn’s arrival had made the contest nasty – when Corbyn alone has refused to smear his rivals and has stuck to talking about policies.

She smeared Corbyn’s policies as ‘impossibilist’, refused to say why and ignored their cross party popularity.

As it became obvious (to everyone else) that Yvette Cooper had no chance of becoming Labour leader she mused whether one of her dreary speeches attacking Corbyn was a knockout blow (while JC was packing out venues up and down the land)

She opined that:

“Labour’s dilemma is that most Corbyn policies are supported by most Labour members.”

…which perhaps explains why he leads the contest!

Corbyn is a dangerous gamble she insisted when polls show that Corbyn would be by far the best choice the Labour Party could make.

Oddly we haven’t heard from Polly for a while… perhaps she has ran out of things to be wrong about.

See also: Jonathon Jones, Martin Kettle – both also from The Guardian.

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Best contribution to the Corbyn campaign by a media outlet

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The Guardian is tipped to do very well at The Corby’s and small wonder – its 24/7 campaign against him has convinced countless thousands to back Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.

The oligarch owned Independent has had its moments and one expects a certain standard of smear and innuendo from the BBC, Daily Express and The Daily Mail – but we doubt that any newspaper has haplessly made as a big a contribution to the Corbyn campaign as The Guardian.

We could list hundreds of examples but we’ll leave that to you…

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Most laughable / patronising anti-Corbyn smear

Managing to be both absurd and patronising to the nth degree is the gift that only Alistair Darling could give us:

His erm article in The Daily Mail comparing Corbyn to Susan Boyle lacking only the headline CORBO IS LIKE SUBO – directly insulted his supporters as unthinking consumers of media trash and deployed the lame ‘Marxist throwback’ stereotype for good measure.

Also strongly in the running are more vitally relevant revelations in The Daily Mail – this time from his ex-wife Jane Chapman in which she outlines that JC used to eat baked beans for dinner.

Also worth a mention are this quite absurd article from art critic Jonathon Jones which includes the line “Clearly, Jeremy Corbyn is no Stalin, or Lenin, or Mao Zedong…” but…

and who could forget Michael White’s terror at the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn’s sandals?

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The Golden Corby – best contribution to the Corbyn campaign

We fear this may be a one horse race. Tony Blair’s decision to wade into the Labour leadership election was a huge boost for the Corbyn campaign and the way he chose to do it was priceless.

Tony decided to tell people thinking of supporting Corbyn that if their heart was with JC that they needed a heart transplant. Strangely people haven’t forgotten the Iraq War…

Tony may have secured Corbyn’s electoral success by himself.

Anyway – post your nominations for a GOLDEN CORBY below – please state the category of award (or invent your own) and include a link if applicable.

Its over to you…