Corbynistas’ video that mocks the middle class
...complete with garden party setting and piano accompaniment
THEY are the oh-so right-on gang of hard-Left comrades that claim to be Jeremy Corbyn’s most zealous supporters.
And now the Momentum group have launched a sneering video attack on the middle class – despite the fact that so many of them come from priviledged backgrounds themselves.
The video ‘Finally someone said it’ is accompanied by tinkling piano music and set in a suburban garden. It shows a group of middle-aged and apparently middleclass people chatting over a glass of wine.
With posh accents and clunky dialogue, the caricatures one by one criticise the young for supporting Mr Corbyn and voting Labour.
One of the guests says: ‘ People think they deserve a job without doing the neces- sary work to get it. Nobody ever helped me out.’
A caption then goes on to say that this character ‘got his job at a media agency through his father’.
The accusation of nepotism comes despite the fact that Seth, the son of Labour leader Mr Corbyn now works in the office of his ally shadow Chancellor John McDonnell.
And Laura Murray, the daughter of Labour’s communist campaign chief Andrew Murray, is now a shadow cabinet adviser. John Prescott’s son David also works in Mr Corbyn’s office.
Momentum tweeted out the 50- second clip yesterday. Conservative MPs lined up to condemn it – saying it mocked the middle classes and older voters and encouraged class hatred. James Cleverly tweeted: ‘A masterclass in motivating people using resentment of bourgeoisie caricatures. Lenin would be proud.’
And Will Quince said: ‘People need to see that this is what has become of the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn and Momentum, just hateful.’
The video begins with one of the guests saying: ‘I just don’t get why Jeremy Corbyn is so popular.’
Another replies: ‘Because he promises everything and gullible people just fall for it.’
One of the other guests says: ‘Exactly. Young people think “Oh great, I don’t have to pay for university”; thinking there’s some kind of magic money tree to pay for it.’
A caption comes up declaring: ‘Didn’t pay anything for university.’ Another guest says: ‘And they moan about how hard it is to get on the housing ladder. You just have to work had and save up.’
The caption reads: ‘Bought her first home for £20,000 in 1981. Now worth £1.5million.’
It ends with the hostess laughing: ‘They just don’t get it do they?’
Last night a Momentum spokesman said: ‘This video has obviously touched a nerve.’ The group claimed it had reached nearly half a million Facebook users in less than five hours.
Momentum was set up four weeks after Mr Corbyn won the Labour leadership contest in 2015. It has 27,000 members in 150 local groups and draws support mainly from younger people.
One of its founders James Schneider – who now works in Mr Corbyn’s office – was educated at Winchester public school and grew up in a £7million mansion in London’s exclusive Primrose Hill district.