Jeremy Corbyn’s social media team ‘badger celebs for retweets’ in polling day scramble for votes
JEREMY Corbyn’s campaign team are desperately badgering celebrities for retweet, a comedian has claimed.
If turnout is confirmed as being high as queues suggest, Boris Johnson’s dream of an election victory could be scuppered as a “youthquake” of young and first-time voters is boosting Labour’s vote.
And would seem part of the plan to mobilise the youth vote is to convince lefty luvvies to rally to their cause.
Comedian Phil Wang claims he was messaged by Jeremy Corbyn’s twitter account begging him to “start a wave”.
Jeremy Corbyn’s account messaged Wang, begging for him to tweet in support for Labour to his 103,000 followers and encourage other celebs to do the same.
Wang said: “Gotta hand it to Labour’s team.
“This is some top-drawer trolling.”
The tweet read: “Heya Phily – sorry to make our first message an ask but reckon you could tweet out ‘Labour’.
“Like Jeremy’? Starting a wave of them and hoping for simplicity will encourage the more reserved celebs to do it. We will retweet.”
Already grime star Stormzy has got on board, telling his 1.3m fans on Twitter that they should back Jeremy Corbyn while dubbing Boris Johnson a “p***k”.
Mr Corbyn replied: “Thank you Stormzy for your solidarity, your commitment to a fairer country and fearlessness in speaking out against injustice.”
Singers Paloma Faith, Lily Allen, and Jade Thirlwall along with Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams, footballers Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville, comedian John Bishop and even Hollywood star Danny DeVito are among the dozens of famous faces who have urged Britain to make Corbyn the next PM.
Thank you Stormzy for your solidarity, your commitment to a fairer country and fearlessness in speaking out against injustice
Jeremy Corbyn's twitter account
The Sun Online has contacted the Labour Party for a comment.
But not all celebs were playing ball.
Ex-Arsenal defender turned football pundit Lee Dixon has been savaged online by Corbynistas on Twitter after saying he wasn’t voting for Labour after replying to Corbyn’s tweet.
Dixon, an ITV football analyst, replied: “No. There you go. My tweet back.”
The response drove Corbyn supporters to brand him a “Tory c**t” and “scum” who has turned his back on working-class people.
But obviously they didn’t read Dixon’s tweet just 15 minutes before in which said he would be voting for the Green Party.
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That is, if they can be bothered to vote.
It has long been a truth in British politics that young people vote in lower numbers than older ones.
In the last election in 2017, just over half of under-35s voted, compared to more than 70 per cent of those over 60.
