Does Any Political Party Really Care About Young People?
Danny Angove laments the lack of youth-centric and inclusive politics
Life’s full of disappointments, isn’t it?
Imagine: you’ve been forced to endure a long, hard day of lectures and seminars, so you decide to treat yourself to a night in with your housemates, junk food, and one of your favourite films. You hit the shops, but they’ve run out of ice cream. When you get home, you find that the film you want to watch isn’t on Netflix. One of your housemates bails on you to go to the SU; he eventually stumbles in at 2am, and vomits all over the kitchen floor.
You’re tired, you’re stressed, and your floor is sticky from VK-tinged vomit. The night is an unmitigated disaster.
This is, in short, how I feel about the Labour Party.
When Jeremy Corbyn was elected to lead Labour, I was ...