Seven years ago, Jeremy Corbyn scraped on to the ballot paper for the Labour leadership. The Islington North MP beat odds of 100-1. He was propelled by a campaign that harnessed a wave of energy and built a movement. Many of us who worked on that campaign went to work for the Labour party with Corbyn, but others created an organisation that we all knew would be needed to bolster Corbyn’s leadership.
That organisation, Momentum, has this week launched a campaign to “Keep up Momentum”, admitting that it is “struggling” financially. It has told its members starkly, “without your financial support we won’t be able to keep doing what we’re doing – and we can’t let everything our movement has built disappear”.
