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James Vaughan @EquusontheBuses
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Corbyn’s PR team have released an additional section of *that* speech which was edited out of the previously available video version. Like so much of what they do, it makes things worse rather than better.
The reason being it provides a second example (the other that we know of was a hustings event during the 2015 leadership contest) of Corbyn referring to Jewish “members” (plural) of Lloyd George’s wartime coalition government at the time of the Balfour Declaration.
The reason this is problematic is that there was in fact only one Jewish member of that government (Edwin Montagu). @AldermanGeo, in what now reads as a pretty decent piece of political prognostication, considered Corbyn’s mistake back in 2015. thejc.com/comment/column…fit-1.67925
At the very least, it (once again) reveals Corbyn to have a flawed historical understanding of issues on which he seems to feel qualified to lecture the rest of us. Maybe this is an example of his famous English irony.
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