Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh has declared his support for former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The Scottish writer, who used to live in Corbyn’s north London constituency of Islington North, described him as “kind” and told The Times he backed the veteran left-winger despite the fact he had “that middle-class naïve socialist thing that everybody from an oppressed minority must be good, so ended up supporting Islamic fundamentalists.”
Welsh also created a video in support of Corbyn’s campaign in which he said that Corbyn was a “very good” local MP. He added that he thought mainstream political parties had become “absolutely abysmal”, “monolithic” and that there was “no room for any personalities” or anyone showing independent thought.
The longstanding supporter of Scottish independence added that he struggled to vote for any of the mainstream parties and that, even though he lived in Sir Keir Starmer’s constituency of Holborn and St Pancras, he hoped residents of next-door Islington North would back the former Labour leader.
