Alan Moore gives heartfelt backing to Jeremy Corbyn (but won't vote for him)

V for Vendetta author, an avowed anarchist, urges voters in the Labour leadership contest to ‘put all of their muscle’ behind the embattled leader

Comic book writer Alan Moore has endorsed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader and has urged voters to “put all of your mind and all of your muscle” into supporting the embattled Labour leader – although he himself is an avowed anarchist who doesn’t vote.

In a piece written for the Northampton branch of Momentum, the grassroots movement set up in support of Corbyn’s leadership, Moore sets out his family’s history of voting Labour because a Labour government introduced the NHS and provided free education for children: “I was raised with the probably simplistic but heartfelt belief that it was the duty of our family and people like us to vote Labour since Labour, unambiguously, was the party of the working people.”

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