Corbyn to take legal action over faked photo. Will Tory councillor who posted it need a second job afterwards?
Jeremy Corbyn: he wasn’t amused.
Yes, the headline shamelessly mashes two current political news stories – and justifiably.
Last weekend, the Twitter account of a Conservative councillor from Yorkshire, Paul Nickerson, tweeted a faked photograph of Jeremy Corbyn laying a wreath next to the taxi that exploded outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital that day, with the comment: “Unsurprisingly”
No, I’m not going to post it again. If you really want to see it, read This Site’s previous story, here.
Nickerson himself has apologised for the tweet, which he claimed was a prank by others using his account, and the tweet has been deleted.
Whoever put it up, it is possible that they thought Mr Corbyn would take it on the chin. After all, he never took court action over all those anti-Semitism/terrorism support allegations, so he wasn’t likely to do anything about this, right?
Wrong.
According to the Islington Gazette,
In a short statement, Mr Corbyn said: “My solicitor has been notified and we are taking legal action.”
This takes me to the reference to second jobs – the hot topic among MPs, many of whom reckon they simply can’t survive on their salary of £82,000 (three times the national average) plus the most generous expenses scheme anybody can think of.
Nickerson isn’t a member of Parliament and, as far as I know, may not have a second job to supplement whatever allowance he receives as a Yorkshire councillor.
But, as I suggest in the headline, he may certainly wish he had one, if Mr Corbyn wins his case.
One does have to question whether anybody will employ him, though. Even his local Conservative group has suspended his membership.
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Condemnation has been almost universal. I’ve even seen some die-hard, Anyone-But-Corbyn Zionists admitting that this ‘joke’ was utterly tasteless and potentially incitement.
Of course, there is the smaller issue (or non-issue, depending on how you look at it), that by knowingly allowing someone else to use his twitter account, might be deemed to be a breach of twitter rules?
Yes, absolutely!
Good, I’m glad JC is taking legal action, it’s about time there were consequences to the lies and smears spread about him.