‘I may look like Corbyn but I’d vote for Farage!’ Straight-talking OAP slams Labour
HE may be a dead ringer for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn - but Essex voter Albert Wallace has said he’d voted for Nigel Farage if he could.
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Express.co.uk caught up with Mr Wallace, 83, on the streets of Rayleigh, where he was doing some shopping with his wife Patricia. With a beard and glasses, plus a Russian-style hat similar to that favoured by Mr Corbyn, the resemblance was striking. Mrs Wallace said her husband is often told he looks like the left-winger.
He added: “The actual newsagent calls me Mr Corbyn, because I’ve got the same hat as he wears.
“I’m going to get rid of it next week.”
Nevertheless, when it came to politics, it’s fair to say Mr Wallace, a retired commercial artist, did not take after his lookalike.
He said: “He’s completely out of date.
“The ideas and all that are the sort of ideas you would get from a young person, not someone that’s lived as long as I’ve had and have seen it all before.
“You can’t start changing life as it is now, it’s gone too far.
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“You can’t be sort of ‘left-wing’ left-wing, you can’t do it anymore.”
In fact, Mr Wallace said if the choice was available, he’d vote for Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who has stood candidates down - including in the Rayleigh and Wickford constituency, which Tory MP Mark Francois is once more contesting for the Conservatives - in order to “train his fire” on Labour.
Mr Wallace said: “If he was the Prime Minister he would get a big following.
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“Purely because he can speak off the cuff and he doesn’t get defeated by any arguments.
“Having watched him in Europe, you realise he can talk to anyone.”
With regard to Brexit, and the choices he had available in the constituency - the Tories, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party - Mr Wallace was unenthusiastic.
He said: “With Brexit I think people have just got depressed by the whole thing.
“They just want it finished so we can get on with supposedly normal life.
“With both sides it’s just like a game in Parliament.
“In the end, after you’ve been watching it for three and a half years, you just can’t take any more.
“I wouldn’t vote for anyone anymore.”