No one knows what politics will look like in a year. That was the lesson of 2015. Imagine telling a pundit only a year ago that 2015 would end with a majority Tory government, 56 SNP MPs, doctors preparing to go on strike and Islington North’s Jeremy Corbyn leading Labour. They would have laughed.
Another unforeseen development in 2015 was the grass-roots network Momentum, which emerged out of Corbyn’s leadership campaign. Momentum, for which I work as a national organiser, exists to harness the energy that led to Corbyn’s election. We aim to strengthen democratic, popular social forces in Britain, to grow Labour, help it win and reconnect it with its radical heritage. In short, Momentum organises to shift power away from the 1 per cent.
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