How group shamed their party online

HANG THE TORIES

A PICTURE of a banner daubed with ‘Hang the Tories’ was retweeted by Momentum’s London youth wing.

ILLEGAL STRIKES

AT the Momentum Youth and Students conference in June 2016, delegates called on the TUC and Labour Party to organise an illegal 24-hour general strike to bring down the Tory government and force new elections.

PRINCESS DIANA MOCKERY

ON the 20th anniversary of her death in August, Momentum’s London Youth and Students group sarcastically tweeted to the GCHQ: ‘Cannot believe it [has] been 20 years. We’ll get the bastards who did it.’

MARXISM IS GOOD

IN August the London youth wing praised the hard-Left ideology, tweeting: ‘Marxism is good babe.’

WITHDRAW FROM NATO

MOMENTUM’S youth wing won a vote at Young Labour’s conference in October calling for the UK to leave the military alliance. The London branch’s Twitter account said: ‘Motions passed on capital controls, leaving Nato and nationalising the banks. Young Labour has been transformed.’

DEFENDING ANTI-SEMITISM

JAMES Elliott, the candidate backed by Momentum for the youth representative seat on Labour’s executive, was found to have written in his student newspaper at Oxford in 2014: ‘Antisemitism is a tired old accusation from Zionists, retreating behind mendacious slurs.’

NORTH KOREA SOLIDARITY

SARAH Cundy, the 1 -year-old chairman of Canterbury Momentum, tweeted in November that she stood in ‘solidarity’ with North Korea. She wrote: ‘I’d rather have solidarity with DPRK than the USA.’