Cynical Corbyn has betrayed young voters

FOR many voters, it was the defining moment of the run-up to the election.

A week before polling day, Jeremy Corbyn made his most extravagant pledge of a campaign characterised by endless spending promises. He would write off all student debt. ‘I will deal with it,’ he said.

Typically, he made no mention of the eyepopping £100billion cost, but that didn’t stop his words spreading like wildfire online and luring young people to the polls in unprecedented numbers.

Some students may even have voted for him twice, if worrying reports to the Electoral Commission are anything to go by.

Six weeks later, one thing is clear: That pledge was a blatant lie. On Sunday shadow chancellor John McDonnell downgraded it to a ‘real aspiration’, then education spokesman Angela Rayner said there were ‘no plans’ to write off existing debt.

When Nick Clegg betrayed young voters by breaking his solemn vow on tuition fees, he was rightly punished at the polls.

How long before they see Mr Corbyn for who he really is: A Marxist snake oil salesman in hock to the unions and Momentum thugs, who pushes economically illiterate policies that would plunge us into decades of nightmarish debt?