{"id":18142,"date":"2015-08-17T14:56:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=18142"},"modified":"2025-11-23T09:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:48:58","slug":"if-jeremy-corbyn-wins-what-to-do-owen-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=18142","title":{"rendered":"If Jeremy Corbyn wins &#8211; what to do &#8211; Owen Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">If Jeremy Corbyn wins . . .<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Firstly, the mother of all voter registration drives has to be unleashed. The poorer you are in modern Britain, the less likely you are to vote.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hopisen\/status\/602159892510683136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Labour received its second highest share of the vote from 18-24 year-olds since 1974<\/a>, but less than half of them voted. Barack Obama triumphed because of a strategy of &#8216;expanding the electorate&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It&#8217;s a poll with limited value, but YouGov suggested that Jeremy Corbyn was ahead of other candidates when Ukip\u00a0voters were asked which prospective Labour candidate would make them more <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UKGE2020\/status\/625218373295677440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">likely to vote for the party<\/a>.\u00a0So\u00a0Ukip\u00a0voters must be love-bombed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This strategy would have to be kickstarted as soon as the leadership contest is over, hopefully helped by a record influx of new members and activists that followed. As the independence movement has politicised Scotland, so such a movement would have to do the same in England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Taken from:- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/business\/economics\/2015\/08\/owen-jones-right-are-mocking-jeremy-corbyn-because-secretly-they-fear-him\">If Jeremy Corby wins prepare for a firestorm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Jeremy Corbyn wins . . . Firstly, the mother of all voter registration drives has to be unleashed. The poorer you are in modern Britain, the less likely you are to vote.Labour received its second highest share of the vote from 18-24 year-olds since 1974, but less than half of them voted. Barack Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30264,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142\/revisions\/30264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}