Vote Corbyn, kids – and Bank of Mum & Dad will shut down

The deadline for voter registration arrived yesterday, prompting more than 100,000 under-25s to sign up, almost all intent on helping to elect Corbyn and his merry band of Marxists.

Of course, young people have always been drawn to socialism, but that still doesn’t explain why so many from comfortable middle-class backgrounds support someone who appears to despise everything they stand for.

every parent i talk to, every colleague, every friend knows young adults seemingly mesmerised by the Pied Piper of modern politics. But here’s the thing — these naive dopes who idolise Corbyn are like turkeys voting for Christmas.

They want to elect a government that will penalise those who have worked so hard to give them the lifestyle they enjoy — namely their long-suffering parents. Let’s face it, if it weren’t for Mummy and daddy, where would today’s diet Coke Communists be?

in some ways their views are understandable. The under-25s have no memory of what life under a socialist government — a real socialist government — means. They’ve only ever known a stable economy that has enabled many of them to grow up in unprecedented privilege.

As the old saying goes, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. And believe me, kids, if Corbyn gets in, it will be gone. Or, to paraphrase Joni Mitchell, they’ll pave Paradise and put up a council block. Forget the outcry this week over cutbacks at TSB. With a selfconfessed Marxist as Chancellor, it’s your local branch of the Bank of Mum and dad that will be pulling down the shutters.

That smart iPhone, for example, the one you used to register your vote, the one you use every minute of practically every hour of every day. how are Mum and dad going to pay for that when Corbyn’s spiteful tax hikes kick in? (don’t believe the lies that they’ll only affect the ‘super-rich’. They won’t.)

And what’s going to happen to the family’s lovely bolthole in Cornwall when Labour impose their second-home levy?

As for getting yourself to the Stormzy gig, well Labour’s mayor is trying to hound Uber out of the capital. And if you want a lift in ‘dad’s Taxi’ (or in my case ‘Mum’s Taxi’), the £11 billion ‘windfall tax’ Corbyn plans for oil companies means everyone is going to be paying more at the pump.

Granted, perhaps you’ll be temporarily thrilled when your £5,000a-term private sixth form closes down because a class war has stripped it of its charitable status. But if you’re expecting some sort of educational nirvana in the state sector, think again. They’ll also be getting rid of academies and free schools, and i don’t suppose grammars will be far behind.

You’ll be lucky to get enough qualifications for a job at your local chicken shop — if they haven’t banned chicken by then for destroying the planet.

But then, work is not really a priority for the middle- class Corbynista, is it? That’s what parents are for. That, and the cash to pay for life’s essentials, such as Glastonbury and weekends away with extinction rebellion.

it’s easy to be idealistic when you’re being bankrolled by your parents. But let me ask you this: what’s going to happen when punitive corporation taxes scare off business investment? Or when the combination of a new four-day working week, uncontrolled immigration and new trade union powers to declare unrestricted strike action lead to blanket job losses? Who will fund your socialist lifestyle then?

What will happen if one — or both — of your parents loses their job? Waiting for them to pop their clogs won’t help either: Labour plan a hike in inheritance tax that would rake in £725 million.

Of course, nothing i say will convince any of these brainwashed saps they’re wrong. in fact, there’s only one way for this lot to learn the truth about Corbyn’s Communist Manifesto — and that’s to live under it for five years.

Then at least they won’t make the same mistake twice.