Details proving even more elusive than unicorn

Jun 30th, 2016 | By
Category: Notes and Comment Blog

I’m still trying to figure out exactly what the Momentum guy said in the Q&A that prompted Ruth Smeeth to say “How dare you?!” and a few seconds later walk out. There are videos but all the ones I’ve seen start with her “How dare you” so you don’t get what the guy said. Like this one for example.

It’s not that I think anyone’s lying, it’s that I can’t find the details. The reporting is frankly rather muddled.

A tweet by a Telegraph journalist who was there (and who is on video asking the Momentum guy if he’s going to apologize) helps some:

Then Momentum man gets Q, accuses @RuthSmeeth of colluding with Telegraph journo (me) despite Corbyn warning that Jewish/media tropes banned

So I guess Momentum guy claimed that Ruth Smeeth was colluding with Telegraph reporter Kate McCann in…anti-Corbyn reporting? Something like that? And it’s an anti-Semitic dog whistle?

I suspect it’s a lot more recognizable to people who’ve been closely following the controversies around Corbyn than it is to me.

Updating to add: someone I know was there and says Momentum guy suggested she was in cahoots with the Telegraph journalist in a ‘we know what’s going on’ way and that people were shouting at him in response (which you can hear in some of the videos – the shouting starts before Smeeth says “How dare you!”).

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