Deceived by the promise Corbyn could never keep

THE huge army of young people who voted for Jeremy Corbyn, convinced he would wipe out their student debts if he won the election, have discovered that the Labour leader and his unscrupulous ragbag of frontbenchers will say anything to get their votes. Even if it means making promises they cannot keep and which can never be paid for.

Yesterday, after his education spokeswoman had admitted as much in the Commons earlier in the week, Corbyn was forced to concede on TV that he didn’t have the vaguest idea how much his policy would have cost the country. The truth (not that the socialists are familiar with that word) is that it would have stung taxpayers for some £100billion.

To put that eye-watering figure into context, the Government spends only £29billion a year on transport, £46billion on defence and £86billion on education. Small wonder thousands of students queued at the polling stations in the false hope that if Corbyn were PM he’d shake his magic money tree at them.

Shamefully, the Labour leader couldn’t bring himself to admit that the most successful plank of his election manifesto was nailed in place by a whopping lie. Wiping out student debt wasn’t a promise, he squirmed. Labour promised only to “try to deal with it”.

A lot of gullible young people – and their parents, no doubt – were suckered in by Labour’s weasel words. Let’s hope they’ve learned their lesson.