Emily Thornberry ‘disgusted’ at Labour bid to end Corbyn leadership

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is now undergoing a leadership challenge, has announced he will draw up a digital bill of rights as part of a new manifesto to promote and harness the internet.

Labour leadership challenger Owen Smith only managed to muster a few dozen supporters when he made a whistle stop visit to Bristol today.

When speaking about funding his plan to connect every home to high-speed broadband, he said it would cost around US$33 billion (£25bn) and that it could be funded by his proposed National Investment Bank. “I’m looking forward to coming to Ealing to outline policies on the economy, on housing and the NHS that will transform west London when Jeremy is leading the next Labour government”, said McDonnell.

Corbyn also spoke about how so many people in the United Kingdom are even still quite frightened of embracing new technology, even going on to claim that some United Kingdom government MPs even do not turn on their computers because they do not know how to.

The victor of the contest will be announced on 24 September.

Corbyn’s “Digital Democracy” speech also comes a week after a United Nations report announced that disconnecting people from the Internet is a human rights violation and against global law.

“Labour under my leadership will utilise the advances of digital technology to mobilise the most visible general election campaign ever”. We have thousands of young volunteers on our campaign taking part in this digital revolution.

The Labour leader’s digital strategy has been “inspired” by the campaign of USA senator and unsuccessful Democrat presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, Corbyn will say in a speech.

And a Labour source told the BBC: “Ed should concentrate more on his paso doble, as the general election proved that when it comes to politics he is out of step with the British people”.

During the launch, Mr Barbrook said there needed to be a balance in online discussions between “trolling and free speech”.

“The investment of £25 billion seems to me to be money extremely well spent that will help to reduce the levels of regional imbalance and regional inequality in Britain”, he said.

“In some parts of the country, he said, “people have laid their own broadband cable because farmers were fed up with being unable to quickly access the internet to get a reasonable price or sell their products”.

Corbyn’s proposals also include a voluntary “digital citizen passport” as well as a “people’s charter of digital liberty rights”, which will be created after a public consultation.

The government is now aiming to give everyone a legal right to fast broadband, with speeds of 10Mbps as the absolute minimum.