Fewer than one in six of Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters is from working class background
Experts say labour leader propped up by comfortably off “clicktivist” keyboard warriors

FEWER than one in six of Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters is working class, say experts — exposing how comfortably off “clicktivist” keyboard warriors prop him up.
Some 78 per cent of members who joined Labour after last May’s general election are in the rich and middle-class ABC1 category.
Just a quarter of the 200,000 “Corbynistas” who signed up between last May and January are in a union, a stark contrast to the party’s traditional power base.
More than two-thirds have posted Labour rantings on social media, but just 15 per cent have done anything useful such as telephone canvassing, it was said.
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But worryingly for rebels trying to oust veteran boss Mr Corbyn, four in five who signed up after his election would back him again, and 68 per cent want critical MPs booted out.
The findings come in a study by Professor Tim Bale and Dr Monica Poletti of Queen Mary, University of London and Professor Paul Webb of Sussex University.
Professor Bale called the new influx “Jezza’s bezzies” and branded them “more clicktivists than activists”.