Pro-Corbyn Momentum activists launch 'Tiny Trots' group for children

Group will promote 'political activity that is fun, engaging and child-friendly'

The Corbynite movement Momentum was set up to build on the surge that swept Jeremy Corbyn to the Labour leadership (Getty)

Children of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your Thomas the Tank Engine lunch box!

Keen to capitalise on the unfairness felt by under tens at not just bedtime and vegetables but the ownership of the means of production by the bourgeoisie, Jeremy Corbyn’s grassroots campaign has launched ‘Momentum Kids’, to get children involved in left wing politics.

‘Tiny Trots’ as Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has called it, will promote “political activity that is fun, engaging and child-friendly".

Momentum, the group which formed from Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership election campaign, aims to give single parents and carers access to co-operatively run breakfast clubs, after-school sessions and childcare, and will deploy its 150 local community groups to do it.

Announcing the new measure, a statement from Momentum said: “The initiative will aim to increase children’s involvement in Momentum and the labour movement by promoting political activity that is fun, engaging and child-friendly."

A documentary to be aired on Channel 4 will allege that Momentum is actively involved in campaigns to deselect Labour MPs who are not sympathetic to its hard left agenda, and who have criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. But it has not, until now, actively recruited child soldiers to its people’s army.

A parent called Sasha, who is one of the founders of Momentum Kids said in a statement: “It sounds like such a cliche when you say it out loud but it remains true, our kids are the next generation of people who can change the world. We don’t underestimate the contribution they can make. Let’s create a space for questioning, curious children where we can listen to them and give them a voice.”

Children’s author, Alan Gibbons, who will be part of the kids programme at the event, said: “Socialists are not just people who organise in the Labour Party, trade unions or campaigns. Women strikers in Patterson, New Jersey a hundred years ago said they wanted bread, but they wanted roses too. As young people grow, they need stories, poems, songs, drama and play to develop as complete human beings. An education system that treats them only as future productive drones develops only part of their personality. We believe that children are naturally inquisitive and creative and we seek to develop that potential in the hope that a new, freer society, more responsive to human need, will fulfil their hopes, dreams and aspiration to the full.”