Corbyn festival set to be a flop
LABOUR faces losing £600,000 on a ‘leftie Glastonbury’ festival it is holding next month as it has sold only a fraction of the tickets up for grabs.
Jeremy Corbyn is putting on the Labour Live Festival where he will speak alongside sets by The Magic Numbers and The Voice winner Jermain Jackman.
But so far just 1,800 of the 0,000 tickets have been sold, even though the £35 passes – which have a £5 discount for the unemployed – have been on sale for nearly two months. Laying on such a large one-day festival would cost close to £700,000.
Even if all the tickets sold went at the full price, Labour has so far only taken £63,000. Party bosses have launched a last- minute publicity blitz to sell tickets to the festival, in Tottenham, north London, on June 16. They have been sending out a pleading email to Labour MPs to plug the event on their Twitter accounts.