In recent months both Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have defended the Momentum group from criticism. Created as a result of Corbyn’s leadership campaign, the grassroots movement aims to organise activists in towns and cities in order to create a mass movement for the Labour leader. Despite this, the far-left group has repeatedly been accused of being linked to deselection threats against centre-left Labour MPs.
However, it seems that Momentum’s biggest problem may actually be learning to control its supporters. As the Sunday papers report that Corbyn is to sack Benn from his shadow cabinet as part of a new year reshuffle, it now appears that the shadow Foreign Secretary has also won the attention of Momentum activists.
Hilary Benn tweeted his followers on Sunday to give them an update on the floods which are wreaking havoc on his constituents in Leeds. He said that he had spent the day trying to help those affected.
At which point, an account purporting to be the ‘Huddersfield branch of Momentum’ joined the conversation and warned him that he would soon have a lot more time on his hands to deal with the flooding crisis. ‘Shadow
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