Labour are planning a Glastonbury-style music festival for Jeremy Corbyn fans
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Labour are planning their own Glastonbury-style music festival to celebrate Jeremy Corbyn ’s upsurge in support.
Party figures are planning a day-long event to take place in North London in June.
It comes after the Labour leader was given a rapturous reception at last year’s Glastonbury, where he gave a speech from the Pyramid Stage.
Earlier last year, he was given a roaring welcome at a Libertines gig in Hyde Park, where the huge crowd spontaneously broke into a noisy chorus of “Oh Jeremy Corbyn.”
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Labour are reportedly hoping 10,000 supporters will turn up to the festival, which will feature left-leaning music acts and political speakers.
Names for the event currently under discussion include “The People’s Party” and “Labour Live.”
A Labour spokesperson said: “We are exploring options for ways to continue to open up politics to a wider audience and spread Labour’s message about how we can build a society that works for the many, not the few.”
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Not everyone in the party is thrilled at the prospect of a Corbyn-themed music festival.
One Labour insider said: “Well I've said I'm not f*****g staffing it.
“Can you imagine being asked if Jeremy was pilled up or smoking blunts with Stormzy? It’s a disaster.”
Music and politics are not always happy bedfellows.
The Leave.EU campaign planned an all day event in Birmingham ahead of the EU Referendum , entitled BPop Live.
The event was eventually cancelled when a string of proposed headliners, including (three members of) boyband 5ive and East 17, pulled out rather than share a stage with then-Ukip leader Nigel Farage.
The final nail in the coffin for the ill-fated festival was when the Electoral Commission warned that if it were to go ahead it would most likely break campaign spending limits.
At the time of cancellation, the remaining acts who had agreed to perform at the event included three quarters of Buck’s Fizz and Gordon Hendricks, Stoke-on-Trent’s premier Elvis impersonator.