Hanging Out with Jubilant Jeremy Corbyn Fans at London's Refugees Welcome March
Words: Gavin Haynes
2015
At 11:30 on Saturday, the Kendall maniacs were not out in force at the Refugees Welcome march. As everyone clustered round a PA blasting 5Live's broadcast from the Labour Leadership Special Conference, it seemed they'd all hit snooze on the alarm clock, that they were having five more minutes in bed with the NHS internal market, dreaming of PFI deals chasing Serco contracts up flights of stairs.
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In fact, when Liz's numbers finally came in—a rather disappointing 18,000 votes—not even a tenth of Jez He Did's 256,000—no one could even hear them being read above the cheers for the third candidate, alphabetically.
No, it turned out that the sort of people who made it to refugee protests were the sort of people who love Jeremy Corbyn. Who knew?
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