Virginia Blackburn

SAY what you like about the ghastly Momentum, the extreme-Left, grassroots campaign supporting Jeremy Corbyn, but it certainly knows how to turn events to its own advantage. A week ago the focus was on Labour MPs Jared O’Mara and Clive Lewis, overheard yelling: “Get on your knees bitch.” Now everyone is turning on Conservative creeps, who put their hands on people’s knees and pounce on them after a vino or two. No prizes for guessing who made public the WhatsApp list that names and shames the Tory Tinder-swipers. Except, like just about everything else associated with the current Labour Party, it’s all a complete lie.

Yes, no doubt some Tory MPs have come across a bit fruity – in my experience it’s what the vast majority of politicos do, whatever party they belong to. But the Momentum narrative is this: evil Tories mistreat women whereas warmhearted Labour loves and cherishes them.

In reality of course it’s the other way round.

It is the Conservative Party that has so far produced two female prime ministers. In Labour it has never even come close. And it is the hard Left element in Labour – Momentum – that encourages the likes of Jared O’Mara, misogynists who secretly hate and fear women and will stop at nothing to keep them down.

The language these people use, the contempt they express and the downright loathing of anyone, above all a female, who dares to disagree with them displays a mindset that loathes ladies. Just ask the female Labour activists who had the temerity to disagree with the Dear Leader and found themselves bombarded with rape and death threats as a result.

It is an absolute joke that Jeremy Corbyn has stood up to condemn this horrible, oppressive, womanhating