Jeremy Corbyn’s election to the leadership of the UK Labour Party has caused a massive rift within its ranks. Picture: Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images.Source:Getty Images
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 6, 2021 His response has already garnered hundreds of responses and retweets, with offers of cups of tea, food and a place to stay if he journeys up. Jeremy Corbyn ordered to REMOVE affiliation to party from Twitter bio – ‘Not a Labour MP! JEREMY CORBYN has been told to remove his affiliation to Labour on his social media profile following.
TELL us what you really think, Jeremy.
The UK Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn’s Twitter account has been hacked with some choice words broadcast about his antipodean friends.
“Straya c****” the MP for Islington appeared to write online around 9:30pm UK time on Sunday in a four-tweet stream of expletives that began with a message saying: “Here we ... here we ... here we f **** go!”.
It was quickly followed by tweets saying “davey cameron is a pie” and “f*** trident” — a reference to the UK nuclear weapons program he is opposed to.
While the posts were taken down within minutes, his name quickly started trending online with people gleefully retweeting the messages.
Everybody is changing their Facebook headers to Davey Cameron is a pie. This is a truly beautiful moment of human unity.
— Alex (@alex_carter93) January 10, 2016Davey Cameron memoir to be entitled 'Life of Pie'
— Jonny Geller (@JonnyGeller) January 10, 2016Corbyn's Media Team: 'Who the hell hacked the twitter account!?' Blair: 'Davey Cameron is a pie', oh that is so Jez pic.twitter.com/5D8pLtmI0g
— Joshua Lovell (@TheJoshuaLovell) January 10, 2016Jeremy Corbyn Twitter Poll
'I am not a pie' ~ davey cameron pic.twitter.com/DoMdQVsAKM
— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) January 10, 2016It’s not the first time the left-wing leader of the Labour Party has sparked hilarity online after he became leader in a shock vote last year.
Earlier, US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump retweeted a picture of Mr Corbyn by someone who claimed it was his dad voting for the first time.
'@HamishP95: @realDonaldTrump My Dad is thinking of voting for the first time ever for you. pic.twitter.com/1u9qi8qUPc' Great.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 12, 2015The UK Labour Party could not be reached for comment
Jeremy Corbyn has been voted the 'best prime minister Britain never had' - in a Twitter poll.
The former Labour leader, who led the party to its worst general election defeat since the 1930s back in December, triumphed in the online vote.
Supporters of Mr Corbyn, MP for Islington North, piled in to give him the lead over former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy in the final vote, with 57.7%.
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Times Radio presenter Matt Chorley's 'World Cup of Best PMs We Never Had' saw some 12,300 Twitter users get involved.
As well as Mr Kennedy, Corbyn fans beat off competition from predecessors Ed Miliband and John Smith, as well as former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown and Conservative former chancellor Ken Clarke.
Jeremy Corbyn Twitter Hack
But the unscientific poll results show an exact opposite outcome to a recent survey by official polling company YouGov, which put Mr Corbyn bottom of the list - with a net score of -53%.
Mr Smith was top with a net score of 11%, closely followed by Labour's Nye Bevan, architect of the NHS, on 8%.
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Writing in The Times Red Box email briefing ahead of the final, Chorley said: 'It is a title few really want. Actually being the prime minister, even a bad one, is surely better than never quite making it.
'But plenty of people have been dubbed the 'best PM we never had' over the years. So as it is a bank holiday weekend, I decided to put the idea to the test to see if we could agree on a single name. As if.'
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Mr Corbyn upset the odds in 2015 to become Labour leader, easily beating more established names in a result that took Westminster by surprise.
Membership numbers soared under his leadership, but many Labour MPs were unhappy with his stewardship of the party.
More than 170 MPs backed a no-confidence vote in Mr Corbyn in 2016, but their attempts to get rid of him backfired as he won the ensuing leadership challenge with more votes than the year before.
Labour then lost the snap election called by Theresa May in 2017.
But a better-than-expected showing under Mr Corbyn - which saw then-PM Mrs May lose her Commons majority as Labour gained 30 seats - saw him continue as leader.
But he announced his intention to step down on election night in December as the scale of Labour's defeat to the Conservatives - by then under the leadership of Boris Johnson - became clear.
Mr Corbyn has since returned to the backbenches, having been succeeded as Labour leader by Sir Keir Starmer in April.