Jeremy Corbyn's new Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnel, has become the target of an unfortunate Twitter hashtag following his appearance on BBC1's Question Time.
The now trending hashtag, #McDonnellFacts, is believed to be started by General Bowles, a paradoxical Twitter account satirising politics.
Louise Mench was among the right-wing Twitter army bombarding the hashtag with fictitious facts about McDonnell...
John McDonnell fixed Apollo 13 #McDonnellFacts#bbcqtpic.twitter.com/Curo3pvg6a
— General Boles (@GeneralBoles) September 17, 2015Remember when John McDonnell gatecrashed Chelsea's Champions League triumph? #McDonnellFactspic.twitter.com/7tt5G2oigl
— Asa Bennett (@asabenn) September 18, 2015John McDonnell arranged for Nixon to go to China #McDonnellFacts#bbcqtpic.twitter.com/HiR6jTa4Vt
— General Boles (@GeneralBoles) September 17, 2015@GeneralBoles John Macdonnell can divide by zero
— Brian Williams (@BriW74) September 17, 2015Utterly convinced by all the #McDonnellFacts, he was totally there at the council of Elrond pic.twitter.com/rBeVtm8X87
— Willard Foxton (@WillardFoxton) September 17, 2015John McDonnell brokered peace in the Cuban missile crisis with his "compliment a commie" policy #mcdonnellfacts
— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) September 17, 2015John McDonnell was there when Spock died.
#McDonnellFactspic.twitter.com/7ELMSAU7LT
— Ben (@Jamin2g) September 17, 2015John McDonnell says that it was he who captained England to their 1966 World Cup victory. #McDonnellFactspic.twitter.com/l5TUDuQu2O
— elizabeth louise (@dejavousagain) September 18, 2015John taking one for the team at Trafalgar #McDonnellFactspic.twitter.com/R3W7rdrMkj
— David McAndrews (@DavidMcAndrews) September 17, 2015So apparently, the civil rights movement... all down to John McDonnell #McDonnellFactspic.twitter.com/nQqNCUH609
— Mark Frazer (@FrazerMark) September 17, 2015John Mcdonnell single handedly dug the channel tunnel. Are we doing enough for refugees #mcdonnellfactspic.twitter.com/GEigUHzKIp
— Derrie Shepherd (@YesDerrie) September 17, 2015John McDonnell actually spread the message of peace and unity much further than just NI #McDonnellFactspic.twitter.com/Ovkki6nDWV
— Christopher Willetts (@cgwilletts) September 17, 2015John McDonnell got The Libertines back together (twice) #McDonnellFacts#bbcqtpic.twitter.com/Tz7s8pM1Re
— General Boles (@GeneralBoles) September 17, 2015McDonnell issued a double apology on Question Time for praising the IRA and for joking about wanting to 'assassinate' Margaret Thatcher.
He said that his comments had obviously caused offence and he now apologised "from the bottom of my heart".
Jeremy Corbyn’s right hand man came under fire from David Cameron this week when it emerged he had praised the IRA’s ‘bravery’.
He told a 2003 memorial event for hunger striker Bobby Sands that "bombs and bullets" and forced Britain to undertake the Northern Ireland peace process.
“It’s about time we started honouring those people involved in the armed struggle," he said at the time.
