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Momentum’s attack ad is close to the bone for Corbyn

After the Tories went on the attack this week over student debt, Momentum – the grassroots pro-Corbyn group – has hit back with an attack on… middle-aged middle class voters. Yes, rather than aim their ire at the Tories, the video sees the group make fun of those voters who ‘just don’t get it’ – whether it’s the property ladder, tuition fees or finding a job:

It’s an interesting tactic. Not least because they criticise a man who ‘got his job at a media agency through his father’. No doubt, Jeremy Corbyn’s son Seb got his job working for John McDonnell completely of his own accord…

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