Cool Tories

Mocking Activate

Making the Conservatives look cool is ripe for satire.

And Activate, the new, apparently grassroots youth movement backing the Conservatives, is already being mocked with an online parody video.

Gabriel Bisset-Smith has made the sketch with the help of Matt Spencer and Kat Bond.

Activate was designed to be the Conservatives’ answer to Momentum, the left-wing group credited with much of Jeremy Corbyn’s success.

But it has got off to an inauspicious start with its social media channels being hacked, They now profess their support for Jacob Rees Mogg as the ‘modern’ Prime Minister Britain needs.

We suspect this video doesn’t represent their true views either:

Published: 7 Sep 2017

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