Bernie's Real Bro Highlights Crucial Populist Rise of Sanders and Corbyn

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http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/10/bernies-real-bro-highlights-crucial-populist-rise-sanders-and-corbyn

In reality, there's only one "Bernie Bro." And his name is Larry.

And Larry Sanders, the 80-year-old elder brother of the U.S. presidential candidate who just won a practically unprecedented victory over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, says that what his younger sibling is now achieving in the U.S. is part of a much larger global phenomenon that is also playing out in his home country, the UK.

The Guardian reports:

Larry Sanders, who stood in last year’s general election as the Green party candidate for Oxford West and Abingdon, said the massive transfer of wealth from the poor and middle classes to the ultra-rich had become a pressing issue for voters on both sides of the Atlantic.

Speaking after his brother Bernie’s 20-point win in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night, Larry Sanders told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that there were similarities between his brother’s anti-austerity policies and the leftward turn of Labour heralded by the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader.

"I knew that he would make a huge splash and the reason really is the issue that he’s tackling: the growth of inequality, the distribution of money from the bulk of the population to the very rich is true and when somebody says it they resonate to that," said Larry Sanders in the BBC interview.