Whenever I write – or think – about Jeremy Corbyn supporters, I sound like Quentin Letts. For this I apologise. It probably did not help that the first thing I found at the pro Corbyn rally in Parliament Square yesterday was an anti-Semitism special in a far left newspaper. (It is their bar of shame). It suggested that calling dead Zionists not only complicit in the Holocaust but welcoming of it, for the future possibilities of persecuting Palestinians it involved, is an acceptable thing to say.
The PA system does not work. To hear the speakers, you must be within 50 metres of the fire engine on which they stand. So the two or three thousand people in the square – there were not 10,000, as John McDonnell tweeted, that is a lie – listen to a faint and soothing crackle of rhetoric as they blow Momentum whistles and wave their placards.
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