Momentum hold second festival to celebrate Labour party’s comeback – including ‘Mums for Corbyn’ group to combat ‘laddy’ culture
Last year thousands attended more than 100 events at the 4-day politics, art, music and culture festival
JEREMY CORBYN'S support group Momentum are set to hold a fringe festival at Labour's conference for the second year running.
A host of MPs - along with leftie journalists, activists and filmmakers will descend on Brighton to attend The World Transformed in October.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, Corbyn ally Paul Mason and film director Ken Loach are all set to attend the events in a range of venues - from a former church to a concert hall.
MPs on the list include Jonathan Ashworth, Dawn Butler, Clive Lewis, Lisa Nandy and Chris Williamson, among others.
Tickets cost £20, but those under 16 or without jobs can come for free. Unfortunately those tickets are already all sold out.
And one of the groups in attendance will be 'Mums for Corbyn', which aims to combat the "laddy" tone of some of the group's supporters.
Organiser and mum of two Nadine Houghton "There doesn’t seem to be a great deal of space for mothers, especially mothers of young children, to engage in politics.
"Around the time of the election a lot of stuff around Jeremy Corbyn seemed to have a kind of laddy feel to it, you had the football chants of his name, you had Grime For Corbyn."
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Last year more than 5,000 people attended over 100 different events over the course of the four days, the organisers said.
Some of the odd items on sale included Corbyn colouring books, spoof army merchandise, and a variety of literature about the Labour leader.
The grassroots organisation claims to have more than 23,000 members and 150 local groups as part of a movement which evolved from Mr Corbyn's first leadership campaign back in 2015.
But earlier this year members of the group were accused of taking over a local Labour group - and forcing the MP there to apologise for speaking about against the leader.
Hard-left group Momentum took nine out of ten positions on the local committee, and immediately turned on Wavertree MP Luciana Berger.
And just a few weeks ago the campaign group were slammed for making a "hateful" video which claimed older voters were out of touch with the country.