Louise Mensch has once again become the subject of much ridicule online over something she has tweeted. The incident occurred last night after the former Tory MP claimed Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters — who have recently been accused of being anti-semitic — were insulting Corbyn’s Labour leadership rival Liz Kendall.
Mensch claimed that Twitter’s autocomplete function showed that the most common search words to appear by Liz Kendall’s name were ‘Nazi’, ‘Zionist’ and ‘Jews’. To prove this Mensch even offered a photo of the ‘auto searches’ to demonstrate the ‘sewer that is Jeremy Corbyn’s support’. Alas there was a catch. As each suggestion appeared next to an ‘x’, this means that the words were her own search history rather than the work of an evil Corbynista.
A point which many users swiftly pointed out:
https://twitter.com/BitOfFun/status/634827119445602304
The little X by each of these phrases means these are @LouiseMensch's own searches and NOT autocompletes pic.twitter.com/k24QbtfLmN
— Rob Manuel 🍳 (@robmanuel) August 21, 2015
With many quick to criticise her for the slip, Mr S couldn’t resist a trip down memory lane to relive Mensch’s most memorable social media gaffes:
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