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As Jeremy Corbyn took to the stage at rail union Aslef’s raucous Christmas party on Friday, it was standing room only.
Fuelled by the proverbial beer and sandwiches, the crowd at Doncaster’s Trades and Labour working men’s club first completed a raucous rendition of ‘No Pasaran!’ (They Shall Not Pass) – a protest song made famous by socialist revolutionaries in 1980s Nicaragua.
Then the compere, Aslef’s heavily-tattooed president, Tosh McDonald, invited the assembled class warriors to put their hands together for the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition, who would join a local colliery choir to perform a seasonal socialist ditty about the miners.