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Labour leader aims to capitalise on Tory embarrassment in Vale of Glamorgan
Barry Island’s sports and social club is filled to capacity when Jeremy Corbyn’s red bus rolls up the hill, just before midday on Saturday. A dozen hardcore supporters wait outside in the cold for the prospect of a chat or a selfie. Unable to get in, one woman asks a harried local party member, incongruously dressed in a suit and a Santa hat, if he’ll pass on a gift “for Jeremy – please”. Whooping breaks out inside as Corbyn enters the room to what is now his public soundtrack, several giddy choruses of “Ooohh Jeremy Corbyn”, as one man yells: “You’re a legend!”
Richard, a retired local architect, stands in the road and sticks two fingers up at the Labour leader as the coach passes him. “It feels good to do that to him,” he says. “I’m giving him the finger because I don’t like the chap. To me, he’s a throwback to Michael Foot and Tony Benn. He’s a dinosaur.” Richard, who declines to give his surname, says he usually votes Conservative but was unsure what to do now as his local MP, Alun Cairns, had “got himself in a bit of a mess and shot himself in the foot”. Continue reading...