HumorFeed - Corbyn ‘was asleep’ between 1979 and 1983 http://humorfeed.com/story.php?title=corbyn-%E2%80%98was-asleep%E2%80%99-between-1979-and-1983 Westminster was shaken today by news that Jeremy Corbyn was in the middle of a deep reverie for a large part of the 1980s. After failing to recognise the name of former Labour leader Michael Foot during a press conference, Corbyn admitted that he spent the first Thatcher government 'curled up in a ball under a bush in my garden, like a little socialist bear hibernating for the winter'. Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:01:28 UTC en