Today Jeremy Corbyn took to social media to promise that a Labour government would mean people on low-income no longer need to rely on food banks.
REVEALED TODAY: Number one cause of people using foodbanks is low-income. Labour's real Living Wage of £10/hour will eradicate poverty wages pic.twitter.com/RPQtLtl3hZ
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 25, 2017
However, when the Labour leader suggested focussing on food banks in the campaign, Mr S is pretty sure he didn’t mean physically targeting them. So, Steerpike was curious to learn that Kate Knight — the Hove Momentum and Hove CLP executive officer — has adopted a novel method for campaigning on behalf of Corbyn. The Momentum activist has taken to Facebook to boast of her latest campaign tactic: sticking ‘Jeremy Corbyn’ stickers on all food bank donations:
Alas not everyone is so impressed at the plot to tie food bank donations with election material:
Putting aside that the move could be in breach of strict PPERA guidelines that means published election material needs to ‘have an imprint on it so complaints can be traced’, the efforts could also go against election ‘treating’ rules. The Representation of the People Act 1983 rules that it is a ‘corrupt practice’ for any person to provide food, drink or entertainment to win votes.
Given that last week brains at the Hackney branch of Momentum publicly posted plans to turnaround the anti-Corbyn narrative by placing a lot of bets on Corbyn as the next prime minister, Mr S suspects the Corbynites would be best served to put their ‘creative thinking’ to one side and focus on getting out on the doorstep.
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