Paulo Friere, theorist of political education.Image, alchetron.com
This week, Owen Jones published a blog, ‘Questions all Jeremy Corbyn supporters need to answer’, which has caused a stir on the left. His ninth question was about how the mass membership of Corbyn’s Labour can translate into votes. Here is one possible answer.
If you randomly select 75 people from the UK electorate one of them will be a Labour Party member. Soon this could rise to one in every fifty. Recognition of this astonishing transformation into a mass party must be central to any future strategy. As Paul Mason puts it “Labour is close to having an identifiable face in every milieu — in every pub conversation, every workplace, every college lecture, every group of mums with toddlers.”
