Janey Godley: Comedian on tour to make Jeremy Corbyn Prime Minister admits to being an SNP member
The Scottish entertainer says her 'perfect political uptopia' would be a SNP government in Scotland and a Corbyn government in England
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Your support makes all the difference.A comedian taking part in a UK-wide campaign to make Jeremy Corbyn Prime Minister has said she is not going to vote for him.
Janey Godley is one of several left-wing comedians - including Mark Steel and Jeremy Hardy - on a UK wide tour to "inspire people to get involved in supporting Jeremy Corbyn and also to raise the morale of Corbyn supporters".
But Ms Godley joined the SNP in 2014 and boasted on Facebook about how she wanted to "boot Ukip and Labour to the kerb".
Speaking to PoliticsHome she said she still considered herself "SNP forever" but wanted to support the Labour leader because he is "vilified in the press".
She added that she would "never want to see a Labour government in Scotland but Corbyn would be great in England".
It comes as Jon Lansman, the boss of Momentum - a pro-Corbyn campaign set up in the wake of his victory during the Labour leadership last year - said the party should not be "under any illusion" they were going to do well in the Scottish Holyrood elections in May.
With less than 100 days to go until the election, Labour is still lagging far behind the SNP in the polls.
A poll for the Sunday Times last week suggested that their support had dropped to 21 per cent.
Labour lost all but one of its 41 Westminster seats in Scotland to the SNP following their upsurge in support after the independence referendum.
A spokesman for Mr Corbyn said the tour was not officially endorsed by the Labour Party.
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