What did you do this weekend? It seems a significant number of Jeremy Corbyn supporters spent it talking about a hat. The claim that Newsnight photoshopped a picture of Jeremy Corbyn so that he looked ‘more Russian’ has gone viral, earning tens of thousands of shares across Facebook and Twitter.
The BBC actually photoshopped Jeremy Corbyn's hat to make it look more Russian for this smear on Newsnight.
Let that sink in.
The BBC is being used as an anti- #Labour propaganda machine. pic.twitter.com/IFrmhy2wCk
— John Clarke (@JohnClarke1960) March 16, 2018
The BBC has had to deny photoshopping Corbyn’s hat to make it look bigger, which is a strange denial even for these rather feverish political times. But even if Newsnight producers had wanted to mock the Labour leader up as a Soviet stooge, why would this quick parody matter?
Corbyn surely has bigger problems than the size of his hat when it comes to his foreign policy, including his own refusal to condemn Russia for its involvement in the Salisbury attack, and the view of his spokesman, which he repeated in a newspaper article, that British intelligence cannot be trusted.
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