Wiping out student debt is not a bad idea, since no one has the slightest intention of ever trying to collect £100 billion of debt. In practice, wiping it out would not cost a penny.
But the sore nearly-winner claim that Labour pledged to do so has crashed and burned with the public. Even majorities of Conservative supporters do not believe it.
In any case, are we expected to believe that those particular voters who were "deceived" might otherwise have voted Conservative, or indeed any other way apart from Labour? Pull the other one.
are we expected to believe that those particular voters who were "deceived" might otherwise have voted Conservative, or indeed any other way apart from Labour?
ReplyDeleteMillions of student first-time voters-many of whom illegally voted several times-wouldn't have voted at all, but for that false promise. The unprecedented high turnout among the 18-24 age group (74% of which voted Labour) was the main reason Corbyn did better than he deserved.
Labour's election was perfectly encapsulated by a crowd of middle-class druggies at Glastonbury singing Corbyn's name: middle-class student stoners who think working people should pay taxes for them to have three years at Uni for free.
That's Corbyn's fanbase.
There is no evidence at all of students voting twice. Literally none. And there couldn't have been enough of them to have made any difference, anyway.
DeleteCorbyn got a bigger crowd at the Durham Miners' Gala than he did at Glastonbury. And in my experience, there is no shortage of middle-class (and upper-class) druggies at every level of the Conservative Party.