Explosive as this development is, it threatens to overshadow Wednesday’s other significant piece of Corbyn-related news, which is that Jezza has guaranteed that Britain’s libraries will be protected under a Labour government.
As the Guardian reported:
…the Labour leader attacked the
Conservatives’ policy on libraries, saying that the party knows “the
price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“They’ve closed hundreds of libraries
because they don’t recognise, and don’t want to recognise, the lifeline
that libraries provide as a free service open to all regardless of
wealth,” said Corbyn in an interview with Penguin Books published on Wednesday.
…
He said that libraries gave him “a fantastic start in life and I want that for everybody.”
“I grew up in a small town in Shropshire.
My mum and dad loved books. I became a volunteer librarian at school. I
learned the Dewey Decimal system, which I still remember,” he said. “We
also had a branch library across the road and I’d go there after school
and look at the great big atlases and it was my way of looking at the
world, understanding it.”
Whether Corbyn and Labour’s one-two punch of (i) more libraries and
(ii) a fair and compassionate society freed from the rapacious tentacles
of a particularly cruel and venal Tory cabal will be enough to fell
Johnson and Co. remains to be seen, but here’s hoping.via https://lithub.com/jeremy-corbyn-vows-to-protect-libraries-from-forces-of-doom/
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