A grassroots campaign like Activate needs heroes. The Tories dont have any(The Guardian)

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1. One issue with this article....

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....is that it makes Momentum out to be some sort of youth movement. It isn't. It's an organisation dedicated to promoting Jeremy Corbyn and Jeremy Corbyn's particular brand of left wing politics. It's very much an "all age" thing. The fact that Corbyn is hugely popular with younger voters is in this case something of a happy coincidence. Helped it must be said by a number of appealing policies.

The Tories by contrast have for some time built their platform around taking the side of the old over the young at every turn. The one time they deviated from this was the "dementia tax" proposal, which turned out to be the biggest factor in derailing their general election campaign this year.

As to youth activism, the Tories have long been appalling on that front. From the Young Conservatives to the Federation of Conservative Student's to Conservative Future, the Tories youth wing has long been a bad joke.